rsync is a program for copying entire file folders from one computer to another, doing incremental updates if there’s only a few changes. You can keep a continuous backup copy. Rsync is super reliable for this job. Until recently. On 28 May, Jeremiah Fieldhaven posted about how his backup system broke after rsync updated: [Mastodon] […]
Jqwik is a test engine for Java programs. Jqwik does not welcome AI coding: [GitHub, archive] the copyright consequences of training an LLM with mostly public code repositories have not been clarified. Moreover, hyper-scaled GenAI is a fundamentally unethical technology that should be banned. You are not supposed to use jqwik with your coding bot. […]
We’ve known for years that the chatbot vendors run at a massive loss. OpenAI was spending $2.35 for each $1 of revenue in 2024, and it’s only got worse since then. Anthropic keeps pushing its prices upwards. We knew that one day the prices would go way up. We mentioned in April how Microsoft is […]
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a text editor for computer programming. In versions 1.117 and 1.118, if you use any autocomplete, including tab complete, it marks your code commit with “Co-authored by Copilot”! Even if you don’t use Copilot. Even if you’ve got “chat.disableAIFeatures” switched on: [GitHub] The most concerning part is that I had […]
Let’s just marvel at the AI jargon word “toxenmaxxing” — when you’re AI coding at work, run up as absolutely high an AI token bill as you possibly can. Why? Because it’s the future! And not just stupid. The idea’s been hot with the AI bros for a while now. But tokenmaxxing really joined the […]
Anthropic AI — slogan: “we’re second ’cos we AI doom harder” — has a great business. Every bad coder and aspiring bad coder loves Claude Code, their favourite pile of vibe-coded trash! Anthropic’s revenue is through the roof! Except the minor detail that Anthropic sells Claude Code at a massive loss. Anthropic’s spending $8 to […]
Security researcher Chaofan Shou tweeted yesterday morning that the source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code agent had leaked: [Twitter, archive] Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry! Anthropic included a source map — a debugging file — in the Claude Code NPM package. This can turn the […]
In coding, a “pull request” is when you write a code patch to a piece of software and ask the project maintainer to pull it in. GitHub Copilot has started adding advertising to your pull requests! [blog post] After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited […]
Around the world, the enterprise AI revolution rockets forth at full speed! Get rid of those annoying and expensive employees! Replace them with the magical truth machine! And the huge push for Claude Code in the past few months! You can hardly log into Mastodon without seeing yet another tech luminary who’s chosen to replace […]
Amazon Web Services is the biggest cloud provider. Large chunks of the internet run on AWS. You’ll pay and pay. But it basically works. Amazon’s at work on fixing that. The AI push across Amazon has reached AWS. The site reliability engineers who keep Amazon Web Services running are being forced to use AI bot […]
Today’s word is “SaaSpocalypse”. A pile of overvalued enterprise software companies’ stock price number went down, and they’re blaming AI. The mini-bubble in software-as-a-service was always going to pop . The trigger was that stock traders were deluded into thinking your boss yelling at Claude Code could replace Salesforce. Yeah, really. In January, Anthropic launched […]
There’s a magic word. You say it, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot stops and will not continue: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 This is the “test refusal string”. It was added to Claude 4 for developers to test against: [Anthropic] If you need to test refusal handling in your application, you can use this special test string as…
Here’s a new preprint from Anthropic: “How AI Impacts Skill Formation”. AI coding bots make you bad at learning, and don’t even speed you up. [arXiv] The researchers ran 50 test subjects through five basic coding tasks using the Trio library in Python. Some subjects were given an AI assistant, some were not. The subjects […]