Ruby is still a joy for me, too, and Rails continues to evolve while providing solid best practices as the default.

A side effect is an increased intolerance to agony, boilerplate verbosity, complexity. I look at the JavaScript world and shudder.

Also, Ruby being as expressive as it is, describing things to an LLM is not really a timesaver over writing the code myself.

A chip providing a constant stream of hallucinated probable word combinations?

My own brain’s meaning making functionality already provides narrative making meaning making and projecting meaning onto others - for free.

Give me a chip that puts me into zen mode.

Cool idea. What do you think about dependence on that though? Do you feel like a kind of betrayal of human potential to not train your wetware but to only be Zen in augment?

I’m in the process of training my wetware. Prolonged periods without a narrative result in a shift that cannot be described.

The thinking mind is a subset and cannot really communicate its superset.

That's cool!

Writing is a process for structuring and distilling your own ideas and mental models.

Sharing your writing publicly is a form of self expression and owning who you are at a certain point in time.

Do as you wish but do it for yourself. Blogging for some kind of external reward is like reading for an external reward.

Trials show that UBI is fantastic and does bring the best in people, lifting them from poverty and addiction, making them happier, healthier and better educated.

It is awful for the extractive economy as employees are no longer desperate.

Here’s a discussion with a historian who has done a lot of research on the topic https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8de9u2/i_am_a_histori...

This is not true. Don't ask a historian, ask an economist:

https://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-finance/universal-bas...

With some exceptions, UBI generally doesn't seem to work.

Maybe I'm misreading this article, but where does it actually say that anything UBI-related failed? The titular "failure" of the experiment is apparently:

> While the Ontario’s Basic Income experiment was hardly the only one of its kind, it was the largest government-run experiment. It was also one of the few to be originally designed as a randomised clinical trial. Using administrative records, interviews and measures collected directly from participants, the pilot evaluation team was mandated to consider changes in participants’ food security, stress and anxiety, mental health, health and healthcare usage, housing stability, education and training, as well as employment and labour market participation. The results of the experiment were to be made public in 2020.

> However, in July 2018, the incoming government announced the cancellation of the pilot programme, with final payments to be made in March 2019. The newly elected legislators said that the programme was “a disincentive to get people back on track” and that they had heard from ministry staff that it did not help people become “independent contributors to the economy”. The move was decried by others as premature. Programme recipients asked the court to overturn the cancellation but were unsuccessful.

So according to the article, a new government decided to stop the experiment not based on the collected data, but on their political position and vibes. Is there any further failure described in the article?

One of the reasons is that it’s too easy to build your own CMS using Rails.

How much do you hallucinate at work? How many of your work hallucinations do you confidently present as reality in communication or code?

LLMs are being sold as viable replacement of paid employees.

If they were not, they wouldn’t be funded the way they are.

The ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson explores technological and societal solutions to climate collapse in a novel form.

Starts in somewhat current time and follows humanity’s trajectory for the next 30-ish years.

I found it especially interesting because it does expose and address the socioeconomic issues preventing us from taking action on climate.

Good premise. The stereotypes he wrote about Spain were atrocious.

I share the same sentiment. Not sure if it’s productive to see one on ones as a game of domination.

In my experience empowered coworkers make a better team and are a better deal for the company.

Maybe it was a humorous remark lost to the absence of tone in the written medium.

I thought he was being sarcastic with that part. I did chuckle for a moment.

gosh dangit, it's easy to re-read with that in mind

whoosh right past me head

One way to think of LLM output is that it is all hallucination. Sometimes it happens to coincide with reality.

To an LLM it’s all the same as there’s no relationship to reality, just to likelihood to reality.

It’s the difference between “this is something that Peter might say” and “this is something that Peter said”. To LLMs there’s no distinction.

My dismissal I think indicates exhaustion from the additional work I’d need to do to make an LLM write my code, annoyance at its inaccuracies, and disgust at the massive scam and grift that is the LLM influencers.

Writing code via a LLM feels like writing with a wet noodle. It’s much faster and write what I mean, myself, with the terse was and precision of my own thought.

> with the terse was and precision of my own thought

Hehe. So much for precision ;)

Autocorrected “terse-ness”

Autocorrect is my nemesis. And I suspect it has teamed up with email address completion.