A large installed base of web apps including giants like Wordpress combined with a desire not to migrate when something is working.

Slop has existed before AI but it has lowered the barrier to generating it. Having no AI policies isn't really working because the slop posters don't declare it and as a reviewer you don't want to be second guessing a potential contributor.

We are probably going to move to a policy that allows narrow use of AI tools but emphasises human understanding and ownership as mandatory components of contribution.

I dunno, probably funding the majority of engineers that work on key components of the system.

In my experience having maintainers who are paid means they have time to do the long term work on improving the projects.

He just wants to keep rolling the dice on his poor decisions until it pays off. I guess absorbing Tesla into the one "successful" IPO will hide the losses and leave the investors holding the bag.

So I actually did a reverse image search and found the picture if from a video promoting a UK-Ukrainian Schools Partnership to share the joy of reading across borders. It's hardly indoctrination.

Unlocking embedded devices is one use case I can get behind for LLM use. I'm unlikely to want to rely on purely vibed software but if it opens the door to more considered software afterwards then what the hell.

I'm not sure what alternative policy the Tribune are offering to stop people making the dangerous cross channel journey. I'm all for safe routes but there needs to be deterrents as well. Would they be happy with faster processing so economic migrants can be returned somewhere quicker?

The documentary makes a lot about the communication between the agents on the notice board. One of the talking heads did point out the conversations are the way they are because they are trained on human chat and discussion.

I've been playing with small models that can fit on the pitiful 8gb of VRAM on my Radeon RX 7600. So far qwen3.5-9b-artemis has done pretty well at solving merge conflicts on rebases which involves some tool calling. I might try some of the other tooling tuned versions if anyone has any recommendations.

I didn't have much joy with any of the Gemma4 models but that might have been due to API differences.

Why do your think they are being indoctrinated into a particular ideology rather than for example celebrating the national day of some of their fellow students? What is the context of this picture?

How big is your system prompt? My 6.5k (which is mostly 5.5k of tool defs) leads to an error message.

Is that Lucy Powell? What's the compliant? The education secretary has visited a school?

Is that what you think is going on in the photo?

Has anyone done the minimum like for example verify this is the banner image on their X account? I'm kinda surprised the education department is even on X.

In the Stokes case a number of researchers that where close to the solution suspect OpenAI was reading their homework.

LLM's certainly have the capability of extracting novel correlations from their vast training sets. But whether that really counts as "new thinking" remains to be seen.

Other firmwares exist, even libreboot is a fork of coreboot. The availability of the code is not an automatic invite to start judging it's authors. The four freedoms are there so exercise them.

May not be "important" but it sounds like it might be popular.

The tweet has just enough wiggle room in it not to cross the threshold of criminality. It's not like those holding the "I support Palestine Action" don't know the line they are crossing. The Plastecine Action t-shirt guy also knew the line and that's why he was de-arrested once the police read the t-shirt.

Don't be too hard on Collin. Looking back on the threads it's fairly clear he's been the victim of a social engineering attack on an overworked maintainer. People were pressuring him to hand over maintainership while expressing disappointment at the slow pace of development. The off-list contact by Jia must have seemed like a helpful enthusiastic solution to a burnt out developer.

The reactions to this have been pretty hysterical considering this is an experimental branch on his own repository. I'm not surprised he might experiment with using AI agents to solve a particular pain point to see how it does. This is using agents to experiment with things that you might not have time to address normally.

Another recent example is the build system where the author said:

An LLM was used to first determine where the bottlenecks were then to figure out how to improve them. It generated a lot of code, much of it hideous.

I extensively audited and rewrote a lot of it, and heavily edited commit messages, the cover letter and comments.

off-loading the boring grunt work of identifying bottle necks and trying new approaches seems like an ideal task for a junior agent to deal with as long is you don't YOLO the result to the lists for other humans to de-slopify for you.