Tags:
- The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
- Pre-order the hard-cover print edition of Out of the Software Crisis
- Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun
- The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
- A prayer wheel for capitalism
- What’s the game?
- Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
- Prompts are unsafe, and that means language models are not fit for purpose
- The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts
- Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing
- The poisoning of ChatGPT
- AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking industry
- Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley
- Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node
- Generative AI is the tech industry’s Hail Mary pass
- 10x Devs Don’t Exist, But 10x Organisations Do
- Tech Companies Are Irrational Pop Cultures
- Small is Successful
Highlights from baldurbjarnason.com
- A lot can happen in a month: on AI art and the fediverse 16 December 2022
- The response to Out of the Software Crisis has been amazing 5 December 2022
- Programming is a Pop Culture 21 November 2022
- WTF is a Framework? 18 November 2022
- Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies 16 November 2022
- Great apps are rare 15 November 2022
- I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps 4 July 2022
- On online collaboration and our obligations as makers of software 2 June 2022
- The different kinds of notes 6 May 2022
- What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people 6 May 2022
- How to keep up with web development without falling into despair 31 January 2022
- What do I need to read to be a great at CSS? 19 October 2021
- The Single-Page-App Morality Play 6 September 2021
- Software Crisis 2.0 25 August 2021
- Lessons in Interactivity, 2021 redux 13 August 2021
- Nobody gives a hoot about groupthink 29 July 2021
- Ways of reading without the influence of community 6 July 2021
- The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was 11 May 2021
- You are what you do, not what you say or write 4 May 2021
- 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling 21 April 2021
- Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? 31 March 2021
- Web Dev: The Red Queen Wire Mommy of Modern Tech 6 August 2019
- Web Development: with great power comes the ability to make great mistakes 24 March 2019
- Neither Paper Nor Digital Does Active Reading Well 3 September 2018
- Focusing on market share blinds you to growth 7 January 2018
- The future of Software Development: Just Business Logic 7 January 2018
- Hypertext is still the fundamental model of the web 7 January 2018
- Over-engineering is under-engineering 25 November 2017
- Judge the work 21 January 2016
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Toxic environments:
inequality in tech is a symptom of something worse 18 May 2015 - The web has covered the basics — that’s why it’ll get harder from now 1 March 2015
- The splintered author 4 November 2014
- The Google Wave Heuristic 17 September 2013
- Computers are too difficult and people are computer illiterate 14 August 2013
- The inefficiencies of joy 24 July 2013
- Design pseudoscience 8 November 2011