One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.

Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.

The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.

Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.

Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.

Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.

It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.

But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.

@TheBreadmonkey Nice wheels.

gutting public schools and replacing them with AI is just about the worst thing i think you could do to a society, and the predictability of the order of where it gets rolled out first is sickening

@slothrop

That is what I do:

https://decoded.legal/presentations/

@simonzerafa it would have to be different, he owns the trademark

It took 7 years of self-funded work, but Sonic Pi is finally at a place I'm happy with.

It's even easier than beginners and even more powerful for pro users - and just way more polished in every way.

It's also a (friendly) technical trojan horse for SuperSonic.

https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-1-164093369

Is this you, Mainer?

"Voting is this weekend and I have no idea what the fuck is going on!"

Are you a Republican? You need to do nothing, like always.

Were you a registered Democrat in June? You need to vote. All voting is electronic, you can register for the special election right now:

https://mainedems.org/senate-race/

Das ZDF lädt Danger Dan mit seinen Antifa-Song erst ein dann aus und bekommt dafür viel Kritik.

Ich bin ganz und gar kein Fan von Dan und Antilopen Gang, aber das nur am Rande. Ich finde vor allem den Song inhaltlich nicht hilfreich. Er thematisiert vor allem eine Outingpraxis, wie sie in Antifa-Gruppen der 90er/00er verbreitet war.

Fabian Lehr hat dazu jetzt eine hilfreiche Einordnung veröffentlicht:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/611Wrd52na01D9C1owW0ll?si=mQ-IZaEySXqiz3SjrAsgSA&utm_source=copy-link

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@Li @Uair I don’t understand what you want. You seem to expect me to anticipate everything that anyone might possibly not want to read about and wrap that in a warning. That’s simply unreasonable, and certainly beyond my capability to predict.

@TheBreadmonkey
Something something something tits

EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.

The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.

When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.

Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwork. We need a serious reform of EU funding: simpler applications, transparent evaluations, proportionate controls, and more funding directed to actual delivery.

#europe #research #funding #opensource

A few more 360° shots from mid morning #EMFCamp

@mattblaze @Li

You never harmed me. I like your sense of humor.

I was drinking with them and triggered some homeless kid into attacking. As soon as I could tell I was triggering him I offered to leave the scene but his other friends were enjoying my stories. I'm autistic, and was drunk, so I just wrote it off. He wandered around a while and then drove me off. They were a pack of homeless kids. They were all going to defend each other. At the time I got pissed about it because he insulted me. I now think I went the wrong way. I should have just removed myself. I did leave them the bottle.

Like I said earlier, I forget just how...hard I am. And smart. People sometimes find that threatening, too. Thanks for the reminder that trauma is real.

FWIW, I have a pretty bad case of cPTSD, too. I spend my time in a dissociative trauma response, just playing with words in my head. I only come down for life-threatening instances, but I had to get really, really good at them.

Galeopsis pubescens (hairy hempnettle). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/212/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeopsis_pubescens

#plants #roots #illustration

“Very few companies are so good at shipping software that they can afford the extra risk profile.” (of #AI)

From:

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

Rails' embarrassing racist daddy is now calling for the ethnic cleansing of Europe over on his blog, but it's fine because he's nice to people at conferences.

@benjamin et si on les taxait en actions du coup?

"Keine Fortschritte": Die EU-Kommission kritisiert die mangelnde Lobbykontrolle in Deutschland - und nicht nur das:
Die Kommission fordert die Bundesregierung auf, »die europäischen Standards zum Zugang zu amtlichen Dokumenten zu berücksichtigen«.
🤷‍♂️

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-07/lobbyregister-eu-kommission-deutschland-lobbyisten-gesetzgebung.