How government platforms make #AI coding assistants more effective.
https://adhoc.team/2026/02/05/how-government-platforms-make-ai-coding-assistants-more-effective/
Michael Graaf
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🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet
In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -
#tech #contentcreator #contentquality
Video credit Patrick Boyle
🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet
In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -
#tech #contentcreator #contentquality
Video credit Patrick Boyle
Claudius Link
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Later today @claresudbery talks to us about building reliable software with the help of large language models. Remember to sign up before the event so you don't miss the beginning!
https://dddlondon.com/events/going-back-to-basics-key-to-ai-coding/
Monday 9th February
7pm GMT | 8pm CET | 11am PST | 2pm EST | 12.30am IST (Tue 10th)
You can find information about all our upcoming events on the DDD London website.
#dddLondon #ddd #software #AI #LLMs #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareDesign
Later today @claresudbery talks to us about building reliable software with the help of large language models. Remember to sign up before the event so you don't miss the beginning!
https://dddlondon.com/events/going-back-to-basics-key-to-ai-coding/
Monday 9th February
7pm GMT | 8pm CET | 11am PST | 2pm EST | 12.30am IST (Tue 10th)
You can find information about all our upcoming events on the DDD London website.
#dddLondon #ddd #software #AI #LLMs #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareDesign
OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/875724/openai-chatgpt-ads-test-launch
Very cool new feature to add agentic workflows to your GitHub repos. Another banger coming from the group at @githubnext and further validation that the future of software development is opening up for people that have developed the ability to communicate clearly. Words > Code
github.github.io/gh-aw/
Charles U. Farley
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Why use AI writing tools when you can just build your own workflow in Emacs instead?
Why use AI writing tools when you can just build your own workflow in Emacs instead?
🌍 @dpgalliance is heading to New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (Feb 16–20), the first global #AI summit hosted in the Global South.
🚀 Join our session: Digital Public Goods for Global AI Equity
📅 Feb 17 | 12:30–1:25 PM
📍 Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
Learn how #DPGs can bridge the global AI divide.
👉 Check the program and pre-register: https://new.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/ai-impact-summit-2026
More than 40% of voters who responded to an exit poll during Sunday’s Lower House election want the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party to continue to govern Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/09/japan/politics/exit-poll/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #2026lowerhouseelection #nipponishinnokai #ldp #socialmedia #sanaetakaichi #cra #dpp #ai
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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Wow. I am getting care at a new medical facility, and part of their conditions of admissions is a mandatory acceptance of their use of AI.
I wish I lived in a country or state where that was not legal.
People fear AI will replace us.
Calm down. Nothing has done more for the future job security of software developers, than AI generating unmaintainable code.
@randahl that's actually the racket.
You may not remember Ballmer's, "Developers, developers, developers" push that accelerated the Microsoft code base.
This is much the same.
Unmanageable code creation while #ai gets better and young developers get worse. And so who you gonna call?
The young manager will say, "Agent ai! Agent ai! Agent ai!" Because that is all s/he has been hearing.
And it gets baked into code bases.
Konrad Hinsen
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"With generative AI we have essentially provided a tool for conducting denial of service attacks on the infrastructure of the scientific publishing process (broadly construed). And we have done this at the time when we are seeing well-funded campaigns seeking to undermine free and independent scientific research."
@UlrikeHahn, 2026
https://write.as/ulrikehahn/is-ai-killing-scientific-reform
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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@alvan@social.lol
#Firefox doesn't "balance a little marketing": in the screenshot provided by @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social you can see at least two #DarkPatterns at work:
And note that this has nothing to do with your personal preferences or people reading changelogs: as others have pointed out, if Firefox is so eagger to let people know about the new AI features, the could just showcase them just after update, providing a non misleading button to enabled each of them, like many other software do: https://ui-patterns.com/patterns/Guided-tour
As it stands, and given the alternatives, Mozilla #UX is overly malicious and I guess it would not pass any serious #GDPR compliance check.
Indeed I still wait for an answer to these questions: https://snac.tesio.it/giacomo/p/1770122154.401646
I guess it's because those model are updated frequently from #BigTech's servers around the world and Mozilla doesn't want people to realize how often their online status is revealed to such corporations through update checks by their " #privacy friendly" Firefox AI.
@alextecplayz@techhub.social
#Firefox doesn't "balance a little marketing": in the screenshot provided by @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social you can see at least two #DarkPatterns at work:
- a popup-wide button
- no mention of #AI whatsoever: "Suggest more of my tabs" is a very misleading label for "opt-in into AI controlled tabs from now on"!
And note that this has nothing to do with your personal preferences or people reading changelogs: as others have pointed out, if Firefox is so eagger to let people know about the new AI features, the could just showcase them just after update, providing a non misleading button to enabled each of them, like many other software do: https://ui-patterns.com/patterns/Guided-tour
As it stands, and given the alternatives, Mozilla #UX is overly malicious and I guess it would not pass any serious #GDPR compliance check.
Indeed I still wait for an answer to these questions: https://snac.tesio.it/giacomo/p/1770122154.401646
I guess it's because those model are updated frequently from #BigTech's servers around the world and Mozilla doesn't want people to realize how often their online status is revealed to such corporations through update checks by their " #privacy friendly" Firefox AI.
@alextecplayz@techhub.social
Australia has become the world’s third-largest artificial intelligence investment destination behind the U.S. and China, a result that’s set to spur productivity, Commonwealth Bank of Australia said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/09/tech/australia-ai-boom-cba/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #australia #ai #tech
David Gerard
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Matt Stoller thinks #AI software is going to replace established #saas tools because he vibe coded a utility with no logging, no security, no audit/compliance and very little complexity and but thinks he's 85-90% of the way there and that...
> poorly done AI-built software is just not that much worse than what exists now
Oh my sweet summer child, if you truly think that, you ain't seen nothing yet! Just wait for all the CEOs to f*** around and find out that vibe coding "systems of record" might not be the best idea if you want to keep your S/ME solvent/afloat and free from legal challenges and fines.
I do agree with the main thrust of "SaaS companies are evil, enshittifiying gatekeepers" but to claim AI could soon just magically replace this stuff is completely mad.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-2-trillion
/Cc @davidgerard
Can researchers detect #AI bots taking paid surveys?
#Prolific tested humans and #LLM agents with various #dataQuality checks.
- The company says they caught 100% of the non-humans.
- My take-away: #reCAPTCHA and #mouseTracking caught 95%
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Voters in Bangladesh elect a new government on Feb. 12, but analysts warn their choice is threatened by a coordinated surge of disinformation, much of which originates from neighboring India. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/09/asia-pacific/politics/disinformation-bangladesh-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #bangladesh #misinformation #socialmedia #india #ai
Chewie
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Old man - 15 year Red Hat Engineer - yells at #cloud
About #containers #k8s #saas #blockchain #AI
