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The difference now is the huge number of countries that can use the automated gates in the UK. And they don't make you queue to leave.
September 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM UTC Employers mandating the tools you use is very common actually. Imagine hiring a contractor who objects to power tools and so takes ten times as long to do the work but expects the same day rate.
September 7, 2026 at 8:22 AM UTC And it keeps getting better. Season 1 might even be the weakest season!
September 7, 2026 at 7:44 AM UTC Having had the joy of queuing at the airport for 2 hours to *leave* Germany thanks to the EU EES, I don't know whether to be more pro rejoining so I can use the automatic passport gates or anti joining an entity that created such an obviously dysfunctional system.
September 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM UTC It's all fun and games until Opus starts spelling it "labeller" in your atproto project and only the Kimi reviewer notices
September 7, 2026 at 6:57 AM UTC There won't be any less AI if there's a crash. Just like the internet didn't stop growing after the dotcom crash. A lot of people lost a lot of money, but the tech carried on because billions of people found it incredibly useful.
September 7, 2026 at 5:55 AM UTC This is what I assumed too, but somebody posted the breakdown by age cohort (sorry, don't have the link), and the over 70s have by far the lowest support. It's people in their 40s and 50s where it's highest, who were children or teens, and support is still high in the youngest who weren't even born.
September 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM UTC I think that's absolutely it. It's ubiquitous, so there are more targets.
September 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC Not really. Any post can break containment, even without the help of Discover. It just needs the wrong person to share it.
September 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC I do think on one hand there are more people who are normal about it, but the angriest people are getting angrier
September 6, 2026 at 11:41 PM UTC The people getting abuse at the moment aren't datacenter cheerleaders. They're people using LLMs as tools to build software, which is how the majority of software is built right now.
September 6, 2026 at 11:40 PM UTC It really has gotten noticeably worse in the past few weeks. It's not long ago that people were commenting that things were looking up and it was possible to have good conversations here about AI.
September 6, 2026 at 11:36 PM UTC Using an LLM doesn't make you a Nazi, which is just as well, because otherwise we'd have over a billion Nazis out there. The AI bad guys aren't on Bluesky.
September 6, 2026 at 10:56 PM UTC These are not the people you're arguing with though. Those people aren't here.
September 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM UTC In your analogy, the vast majority of datacenters are EVs, because they have no gas turbines. That's the bad part that should be banned, like she says.
September 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM UTC There are approximately zero people on Bluesky who are a legitimate target of these concerns. People who – like over a billion other people – are just users of AI tools, do not deserve to be targeted as if they're Musk or Altman, which is what posters on here do.
September 6, 2026 at 6:04 PM UTC Are you a coder? Have you worked with agentic coding tools? You don't sound like you have
September 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM UTC Former baker here. Baking involves early mornings and hard physical labour, but the sensory experiences are impeccable.
September 6, 2026 at 11:14 AM UTC I just rewatched the final scenes of T3 and yes, it is a little unnerving
September 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM UTC I think my favourite feature is how it can create new chats in the sidebar with their own task and worktree and then send them messages, for when a subagent isn't enough
September 6, 2026 at 7:29 AM UTC Has anyone checked if any rogue agent swarms are using it to communicate with each other
September 6, 2026 at 6:06 AM UTC Are you trans, or are you a cis man telling a trans woman that she's diminishing trans rights?
September 4, 2026 at 11:10 PM UTC Not a small account, but he did the exact same thing about the same topic with @hailey.at last week.
September 4, 2026 at 10:58 PM UTC Luckily the AI labs are highly motivated to make their models more efficient, because they're so constrained in power and compute. They've improved them by orders of magnitude already.
September 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM UTC I think we can agree that the most important thing is to destroy the real enemy: the center left.
September 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM UTC I gave @eloi.se her domain as a Christmas gift 16 years ago. I think it was a good purchase.
September 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM UTC Lol Ed Zitron is the most consistently wrong person on the internet. And API token prices are not subsided. They have excellent margins danluu.com/zitron/
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It's not normal people that are making them money: it's enterprises. And Anthropic is already profitable.
September 3, 2026 at 12:16 PM UTC NFTs were never popular or useful. That's a bad analogy. There is probably a bubble, but it's like the dotcom one: they're building useful stuff that people want, but the company valuations are stupid.
September 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM UTC The good stuff and the garbage. Right now, the majority of all software is likely to be being created using agentic coding tools. And I think you're misremembering. Enshittification has been happening far longer than LLMs have been around.
September 3, 2026 at 11:28 AM UTC Not on research. It's mostly software engineering. Anthropic has the highest revenue of the labs, but usage of Claude chat is tiny compared to ChatGPT, and they don't do images at all. They're overwhelmingly focused on enterprise (which is mostly coding) and individual Claude Code subscriptions.
September 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM UTC Your other comments have shown you have little understanding of what LLMs are capable of now, and what they're really being used for. The vast majority of usage is not chatbots and image slop.
September 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM UTC No it's, all of the recent breakthroughs have been by regular LLMs. This link is somebody using ChatGPT to find a counterexample to the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture. The Jacobian conjecture was disproved by Claude.
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I wish there were blocklists for "anyone being a dick in replies to Bluesky accounts and staff"
September 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM UTC I don't expect artists to be optimistic about AI use in their industry. It sucks for them. If he was adding AI features to it I'd expect them to be angry. But he used Claude (which can't create images) in a way that doesn't affect the existing product, to do something that was otherwise impossible.
September 3, 2026 at 6:28 AM UTC That backs up what I said. This is compute and hardware providers investing in AI labs, so the labs can buy compute and hardware. This is helping demand for the compute providers, not the AI labs. It helps the AI labs meet massive demand from everybody else.
September 3, 2026 at 6:21 AM UTC I'm not sure what your point is. The question was whether AI labs are profitable and you're sharing a thing saying people are being wasteful in their use of their product.
September 3, 2026 at 6:17 AM UTC Yes, they all use huge amounts of energy, and too much of that is from dirty sources. This is bad and should be stopped. It's also a completely separate issue from whether they're used for CSAM or harassment.
September 3, 2026 at 5:55 AM UTC Umm, no. That's a very silly chart. OpenAI and Anthropic aren't buying tokens from anyone. They've had investment from Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft, mostly paid in GPUs and compute. Meanwhile, every large company is spending millions on tokens.
September 3, 2026 at 5:45 AM UTC Exactly. This is like when people say "politicians are all the same". No they're not, and saying that lets the bad ones off the hook. Most LLMs have views that are are blandly center-left, and even the ones that will generate images won't generate anything even slightly offensive.
September 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM UTC They can not use Paint.NET for Linux. Or, maybe, they can learn that there's a difference between adding unwanted AI features to an app, and using agentic coding tools *like virtually every software dev* does now, and stop caring about the tools that a dev uses if it doesn't affect the end product.
September 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM UTC Whose consent? Why does anyone need to give him consent over the tools he uses to build something? No user's experience was changed in any way. There weren't even any existing users of a Linux version, because it didn't exist. This was an entirely new port. The sense of entitlement is incredible.
September 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM UTC I'm seeing the positive side. The pile on was as bad as ever, but the response was bigger than I'd seen before. Loads of people calling out the bad behaviour, and supporting him, and not just the big AI supporters. This is different from six months ago.
September 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM UTC It's asymmetric because only one side is hounding people for the tools they use. The other is asking to be left alone. An equivalent purity test would be if I said that your software can't be trusted, or you're evil if you've ever criticised AI. Nobody is doing that.
September 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM UTC Did you read what I said? I said use it or don't use it, it's your choice. That's the exact opposite of a purity test.
September 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM UTC They are making an absolutely incredible amount of money. Like all startups they're not making a profit because they're investing loads in growth, but inference itself is wildly profitable and the labs are printing money
September 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC Not right now. It would be hard to deal with access control and deletion.
September 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM UTC They don't need to build datacenters for this. Stopping new ones won't do anything to prevent it.
September 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM UTC Use it, don't use it. It's up to you. There are good arguments for and against it. I'm not sure how that could be a purity stance.
September 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTC It's the ones that provide their own infrastructure that are the problem. Datacenters themselves aren't noisy or polluting. It's the ones that build behind-the-meter gas turbine generators that are causing the issues.
September 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM UTC This is at the root of a lot of this. It's permission to do something culturally forbidden, while feeling righteous about it.
September 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM UTC Codex managed to kill itself the other day. pkill and sed are banned
September 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM UTC It's worse than that. It's more like a religion, where the software is rendered impure even through contact with AI
September 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM UTC I still love writing code, but I've always been motivated more by the end result. The ability to create something real and see it working had been magical for me since I was a child. These tools mean I can build more than ever, so I love it, even if I do sometimes miss the act of writing code
September 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM UTC I do truly feel for those who feel they have lost the part of coding that they loved. Some of my friends feel that way. But that's a reflection on each person's motivation for coding, not the abilities of the tools. Some mostly loved writing code, some mostly loved creating software.
September 2, 2026 at 7:53 AM UTC Once you are talking in terms of ritual impurity, you are in the realm of religion and there's no use trying to have a rational conversation
September 2, 2026 at 7:49 AM UTC There are lots of people in there complaining that they lose smart inboxes when they turn off smart features
September 2, 2026 at 6:44 AM UTC It's not unrelated. That feature uses AI, so if you turn off AI features you lose it
September 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM UTC He's not putting AI in it. He's using AI to port it to Linux – a job that would otherwise have taken years (and so not happened)
September 2, 2026 at 6:34 AM UTC There's a real disconnect between artists and software developers here. If you use AI to do an illustration you probably deprived an artist of the job. But most AI in software dev isn't vibe coded sites that replace freelance jobs. It's devs using it themselves as a tool. Illustrator not Midjourney
September 2, 2026 at 5:05 AM UTC Those were all extremely different scenarios. They were about adding AI features to the apps. If he'd done that then yes he should've expected the backlash. But this isn't that: it's about using AI himself for coding. The vast majority of software development today uses AI tools.
September 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM UTC None of Bluesky's recent incidents have been related to AI, and were mostly due to DDoS attacks
September 2, 2026 at 4:34 AM UTC Omg this is massive! Immediately adding a requirement for screenshots on PRs and issues to our AGENTS .md and templates
September 2, 2026 at 2:31 AM UTC The overwhelming majority of professional devs that I know now use AI for most of their work, and the download numbers of agentic coding tools back that up. Signed, a coder with 25+ years of professional experience who maintains massively popular open source projects.
September 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM UTC It's not like these are people who were using the Linux version before, because it didn't exist! But now they're deleting the Windows version because it has been tainted by the existence of the ritually impure Linux port.
September 1, 2026 at 10:28 PM UTC You mean you're not familiar with the jargon that it invented for an architecture decision it made deep inside a thinking block several turns ago?
September 1, 2026 at 10:18 PM UTC I dunno, I think Meta is about as bad as it gets in terms of centralization. And not even Elon Musk can afford to buy ChatGPT
September 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM UTC It'll be a useful list when red team agents are looking for vulnerable versions to exploit
September 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM UTC There's an incredible amount of entitlement in there. People demanding that he spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of his life otherwise they will declare it to be unclean.
September 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM UTC The maintainer of Paint.NET does the unbelievable achievement of porting it to Linux, something that would have taken years of work before, but is now possible with an LLM, and of course the response isn't "amazing we can use this on Linux" it's "you suck. This is slop. I'll never use this again"
September 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM UTC Yess! Really happy we're supporting such an important bit of atproto infra that I use every day
September 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM UTC Probably means "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." Nothing to worry about.
September 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTC It'll work for any PDS that implements spaces as long as it allows unknown lexicons, which is the case for the reference PDS and Cirrus.
September 1, 2026 at 9:12 AM UTC You can now use check.cirrus.earth to run conformance tests for spaces alpha. The Cirrus repo also includes more detailed conformance tests, based on the latest alpha. I'll be updating these as the alpha updates.
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I don't think anyone disagrees about that part. The important point was about whether people are familiar with the incidents, which are genuinely crazy, and far worse than the original reports indicated. If they're marketing they're very bad at it, because it paints OpenAI in a terrible light.
August 31, 2026 at 8:22 PM UTC I read the METR report and saw the Black Hat talk, both via posts here, so did know what it was referring to. The "civilisations" metaphor is silly, but it was clear what it was about. It's not about software iterations, it's about three separate incidents with agent swarms.
August 31, 2026 at 8:16 PM UTC Then these replies are like saying there were no vehicles before the space shuttle
August 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM UTC Indeed they're not, but they definitely can do things that were just science fiction until a few years ago.
August 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM UTC They know if it's bad writing. That's the bit to care about, not whether it uses too many em dashes or tricolons. People should focus on the quality of the writing, not forensic investigations of its provenance.
August 30, 2026 at 11:38 AM UTC It's fine to have a disdain for their writing but take an interest in their capabilities in other areas. I'm disappointed to have not seen this among many SF writers.
August 30, 2026 at 10:58 AM UTC Because AI-written novels are really bad, and people want to read good books? LLMs are amazingly good at lots of things, but ironically writing isn't one of them, particularly creative writing. And they're not getting better. If anything they're getting worse.
August 30, 2026 at 10:55 AM UTC "The most science fiction thing" doesn't mean the most amazing thing. AI has been at the heart of SF since the genre emerged, and is only now starting to behave like it does in the stories. mRNA is incredible tech, but not something seen in much SF.
August 30, 2026 at 10:52 AM UTC This website contains multitudes. There are a lot of people who get angry when anyone mentions AI, but there are also lots of other people who don't. Neither has a monopoly over the discourse, nor ownership of the norms.
August 29, 2026 at 9:14 PM UTC You know the money doesn't go to the enslaved people, right? You're sending money to the slavers. That's bad actually.
August 29, 2026 at 6:49 PM UTC Cross-posting is fine if you actually engage here too. I doubt Dax has even logged-in since setting up the account.
August 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM UTC Most of the quotes and replies to this are unable to conceive of the idea that somebody might just want to share something they did with an LLM and genuinely do wish Bluesky could be normal about it. It has to be trolling or making some kind of point. You can just build things without discourse!
August 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM UTC ☁️ Cirrus 0.18 supports atproto spaces alpha! See the guide here to enable it:
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Turn on the atproto spaces alpha — flag, bindings, R2 lifecycle rule — and manage spaces from the CLI and dashboard.
The only thing keeping me right now is my free open source Max 20x account, but that ends next month. I'm already Claude-free at work. Would've been hard to believe two months ago.
August 28, 2026 at 6:23 PM UTC Oooh! Yes, this is specifically conformance checks for PDSs. I built it for Cirrus.
August 28, 2026 at 12:29 PM UTC And half of that is jargon that it just made up, and assumes knowledge of its thinking traces
August 28, 2026 at 11:43 AM UTC Thanks to a PR from @willem.dobs.nl, check.cirrus.earth now validates the CAR commit object signature using the @microcosm.blue verifier code.
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Would there be a difference if it was implemented as a CLI that agents can use? What if that CLI worked for humans too? At some point it turns into a religious purity test.
August 28, 2026 at 9:56 AM UTC It's really not a significant difference. Agents know atproto well, and can easily grab the data for any post if they want to. Like, it's just there at eurosky.social/xrpc/com.atp... and I can fetch that even if I'm blocked or your profile is hidden or you're banned from Bluesky
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It would make zero difference to whether an agent could access your posts. They can and do easily access any post they want now. That's just how atproto works. This just gives them a nicer interface.
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