6th October

The omnipresence of LLMs (so called "AI") has had some weird effects on the net
and tech in general. It's ruined a lot of the internet, with slop results being
the norm and not the exception, it's invested the offline world with local
events and fairs using image generators to create posters, and video and music
have been inundated also. Everything is being romped at an astounding pace.

Programming has fallen by the wayside too, except for those of us who choose to
do it for the sake of actually doing it, and that has had one weird side effect
I wouldn't have anticipated, and that is it might have finally put the never
ending chase for "new" to an end. For the first time in a while I've not been
inundated with news about the how new JavaScript or CSS framework. Granted,
that was probably better than we have now, but I'm definitely not missing that
aspect of being a developer in the online world.

Sidenote: work on the Gopher client has slowed while I try and work out the
mysteries of the BScrollView, and establish whether or not it's fully
supported while using Haiku's *new* (as in, they weren't in BeOS) layout APIs.
This is exactly the kind of challenge that programming is about, and while it's
been frustrating trying to find information on a scarce topic, I'll be fucked
if I'm going to ask an LLM about it.