on more useful views on software

there are two kinds of programs: spreadsheets and videogames

social media? videogame
banking? spreadsheet
ai? you may think it's spreadsheet but it's actually videogame

https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chroniques/2026-05-08/le-canada-membre-de-l-ue/nous-des-europeens.php

Ended up at my university's main website for the first time in a while to read the status update about Canvas, and noticed they've added a chat support AI agent fixed to the bottom of the page like I'm on some SaaS website.

Annoyed at it begging for my attention, I ask it a simple question: Why the hell does [the university] need a chat robot?

(Thinking, thinking, thinking...)

"I understand your frustration — here's a short direct explanation!"

Oh my god shut up, you don't understand anything!

A tous les gens qui ont dit qu'ils se débarasseraient de leur voitures si l'essence atteint 1$ le litre

L'essence vient d'atteindre 2$ le litre.

accidentally infodumping about animal crossing trivia in youtube comments while logged in as the principia channel

Après la dissolution, Jordan Bardella a proposé à Cyril Hanouna la tête de l’Arcom en cas de victoire

Alors qu’il se voyait à Matignon à l’été 2024, le président du RN a proposé à son ami animateur de prendre la présidence du gendarme de l’audiovisuel, selon des informations de « Mediapart ». Cyril Hanouna assure aujourd’hui que l’offre n’était pas sérieuse.

Par @AnttonRouget › https://l.mediapart.fr/k15

Meanwhile, in the USA

"Wait this APK has no classes.dex inside of it"

"It's one of those fancy AI apps, it vibe codes itself anew on each startup based on a prompt in res/prompt/"

After the apocalypse there are still computers but only two OSes remain.

Which one do your pick for your own machine?

hacker voice "i'm in"

+++ BLENDER NEWS +++

Blender wins coveted Self Ownage award

In what can only be described as a stroke of genius, the Blender Foundation leadership has successfully eliminated all the good will it has gathered over more than 20 years, all with a single message.

"We had no idea it would be THIS successful", an unnamed member of their team said, "I mean we really did try to win the award when we let Adobe sponsor us, but it wasn't quite enough, but got a little angry, but they forgave us, i mean we ARE Blender after all. So while we were wondering how to top it, we got an offer for a sponsorship from Anthropic. It was a match made in heaven and it worked so much better than we could have ever hoped."

We could not get any further comments from the team member, as they were dragged away and publicly stoned by an angry mob.

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Gave a talk analyzing 22,000 commits across 74 repos to understand what agentic coding actually changed in our codebase. The answer: more output, yes. But asked if we measure quality the right way

Right after my talk, someone presented their own agentic framework. 20 agents. type in a ticket number. The agents write the code. just watch your usage limits.

And I sat there thinking: I just spent weeks asking "is the code getting better?" and the next talk asks "how do I stop writing code entirely?"

Here's what bothers me most: this isn't even sustainable. The tokens powering these agents cost far more than what subscriptions charge right now. They’re building workflows on subsidized infrastructure and pretending this is the new normal. And when leadership sees a demo like that, what they hear is: "we don't need as many developers." Based on pricing that won't last.

They’re speedrunning their own obsolescence on someone else's dime. And I'm not sure we're even asking the right questions while we do it.

i mean, it's a good thing i guess, the more people whose content is not directly queer-related can be allies, the better

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Buff Frog Pin. Republicans were so worried that the water was turning the frogs gay that they failed to notice the frogs were getting absolutely jacked.
https://collabs.shop/wlsbzt

Alt...

Enamel pin of a muscular orange and black spotted frog with a yellow chest and six-pack abs. The frog is wearing blue jeans with a brown belt and has large, black eyes.

There is copilot but it's even more hilarious, you have to be using vscode and you have to be signed into a github account to use it.

And you? What are you thinking about?

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