New blog from Iris Meredith: Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox
Based off her own unusually good experience with Claude, the general thrust is about sneerers being better-equipped to use AI than boosters.
New blog from Iris Meredith: Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox
Based off her own unusually good experience with Claude, the general thrust is about sneerers being better-equipped to use AI than boosters.
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has sued Google for defaming him with AI, over his cancelled concert in December caused by Google's AI overview calling him a sex offender.
Starting this Stubsack off with a double bill from the tech world.
First, Blender accepted cash and slop commits from Anthropic, and Adobe'd their public image in the process. They put out some corpo-speak to try and quell the mob, but it isn't working.
Second, FFmpeg put out a showcase of AI's coding prowess:

For something more low-key, I bought a controller and got into Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers a couple weeks ago. Pretty damn tough kart racer, but oh so much fun.
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I jumped ship to Librewolf a year and a half ago (after seeing Mozilla steal people's data and sell it to advertisers), and I'm pretty fucking thankful for that. For anyone looking to leave Mozilla to rot, I highly recommend it.
Not only that, she introduced mass surveillance to Bluesky and is brainstorming further methods of such in response to getting clowned on so hard.
Musk says: “At times, I think Grok-3 is kind of scary smart.” Grok is just remixing its training data — but a stochastic parrot is still more reality-based than Elon Musk. [Bloomberg, archive]
If someone roasted me such such surgical precision like that, I'd delete my entire Internet presence out of shame. God damn.
Baldur Bjarnason's given his thoughts on Bluesky:
My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.
I’ve heard so many examples of closed source projects that get shipped but don’t actually work for the business. And too many examples of broken closed source projects that are replacing legacy code that was both working just fine and genuinely secure. Pure novelty-seeking
To reference a previous sidenote, DeepSeek gives corps and randos a means to shove an LLM into their shit for dirt-cheap, so I expect they're gonna blow up in popularity.
I've already seen people go absolutely fucking crazy with this - from people posting trans-supportive Muskrat pictures to people making fucked-up images with Nintendo/Disney characters, the utter lack of guardrails has led to predictable chaos.
Between the cost of running an LLM and the potential lawsuits this can unleash, part of me suspects this might end up being what ultimately does in Twitter.
Google is forcibly installing Gemini Nano onto every Chrome installation without the user's knowledge, and actively re-installing it if the user deletes it. Probably an attempt to juice the numbers.
(h/t Matt Roszak)