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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My honest opinion is that it’s bad because a lot of people using LLMs have no standards and push the first thing that seems to work. Be mad at who’s at the driving wheel, not the car.

    You absolutely can generate crap with agents/LLMs, and like a humans writing, the first draft will probably be subpar or maybe complete garbage. Every new session is a clean slate, that’s why putting effort in the documents guiding it is so important.







  • fuck; I’m so used to dark patterns like these that whenever I read “cookie” my instincts flip and look for the less noticeable / most hidden buttons instead. It took me a few seconds to even realize this was a dark pattern.

    Other common ones to be on the lookout:

    • Filled out buttons that favor the company, while outlined buttons (or even just links) that favor the user;
    • Toggles phrased as negatives, so “enabling” looks like “disabling” and vice-versa;
    • Wording to disguise user intent: “Confirm choices” or “Save preferences” instead of “Reject cookies”, like above;
    • Sneaking in optional checkboxes among mandatory ones at the end of a form;
    • Small and low contrast elements to minimize important information that favors the user;
    • Emotional manipulation: “this offer expires in X minutes”; “only Y left”.






  • The problem with Codeberg now is that there is a spectrum of AI usage between manually coding and AI slop that Codeberg chooses to ignore with their new policy.

    I get it that’s their platform and their choice, and at some point I even looked for ways to support them financially if that meant I could migrate all my repos from GitHub - I wouldn’t mind paying for my use, “vibe coded” or not - but an intransigent LLM ban creates uncertainty for many of my active projects, and I can’t consider them a viable alternative to GitHub anymore.

    So sure, I’ll take 3h of GH actions downtime a month over a platform ban. I’m sure I’m not alone there.