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myko commented on The untold impact of cancellation   pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach
HDThoreaun · 25 days ago
Jon didn’t actually deny the claims though. The accusation is that someone had sex with him and then regretted it and tried to end the relationship but he creeped on her. He said he didn’t think his actions were creepy but that doesn’t mean they weren’t and it certainly doesn’t mean they didn’t make the accusers uncomfortable. Losing his job over this is a bit much but after reading all the evidence I would not invite him to conferences either. He clearly has awful social skills and habitually makes people uncomfortable. The lack of anyone standing up for him points in that direction as well although there are many other possible explanations so I won’t hold that against him.
myko · 11 days ago
Jon comes off pretty skeezy in the entire situation. I'm shocked to see such full throated defense of his actions here.

I think his posts are written to confuse people into thinking he won some settlement with his accusers, which is not the case, he reached an agreement with folks who amplified his accusers claims. He did not refute the claims by the women at all.

myko commented on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York   reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/edent
CjHuber · 13 days ago
>In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer “is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.”

So the policy document literally contains this example? Why would they include such an insane example?

myko · 13 days ago
if it is anything like documentation i am reading these days it was generated by an LLM and not very well vetted
myko commented on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions   blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/michael-sumner
thecupisblue · 20 days ago
Wait, is this CLI or is this a github action or is this a github application?

Also, I thought Jules was the "coding agent" they are working on. Now this is taking it over or is this like another case of Google self-competing?

Someone needs to take charge at this company with a strong vision, because they are all over the place and spreading themselves thin, which in turn spreads thin the customer/brand equity.

At this point, as someone who: - Has been writing Android code for about 13 years now

- Has collaborated with Google on stuff

- Lead Google developer communities and conferences

- Knows many, many GDE's and has discussions with them often

- Uses Gemini API for their product

I'm so damn confused. How is a normal customer expected to understand then?

- They have 2 SDK's for communicating to their Gemini API.

- The documentation is spread and thrown all over the place.

- Half the time I'm trying to do something I have to dig through their code to find how to.

- The features I really want are rate limited or available only to private testers.

- They have 3 coding agents now.

- Even thought they have access to my Google Account and my phone, their Gemini app is useless.

- I tried to do a basic thing (add a service account) in Google Cloud recently, which wasn't allowed due to default rules that are deprecated and are so confusing to change due to their confusing UX.

The only usable thing is the AI studio, which is a great tool for experimenting with diff models and improved the DX of getting a Gemini API key by a mile.

I'd say congrats on the release, but honestly this is such a mid low hanging fruit of a product.

myko · 19 days ago
Jules is for hobbyists / vibe coding, Gemini CLI is for developers in a team.
myko commented on US to rewrite its past national climate reports   france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/mdhb
paulsutter · 19 days ago
The old reports were somehow protecting us?

Carbon emissions can only be reduced by engineering and manufacturing advances

myko · 19 days ago
The impression I get from the extreme right (trump and his fans) is that they don't want to reduce carbon emissions at all and are working for the opposite. Denying the reality of climate change is one tool in their chest to get others to ignore it as well.
myko commented on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator   thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/lemper
epolanski · 22 days ago
And yet, while PHPs, Javas, and even nicher/newer languages like Kotlin, Clojure or Scala have plenty of killer software (software that makes it worth learning a language just to use that library/framework) Haskell has none after 30 years. Zero.

Mind you, I know and like Haskell, but its issues are highly tied to the failure of the simple haskell initiative (also the dreadful state of its tooling).

myko · 22 days ago
I will not stand for this Xmonad slander
myko commented on Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”   blog.kilocode.ai/p/ai-pri... · Posted by u/heymax054
atonse · a month ago
I disagree. While there are developers that truly build new technology and invent novel solutions, the overwhelming majority of developers who are paid for their work daily do pretty mundane and boring software development. They are implementing business logic, building forms, building tables, etc.

And AI already excels at building those sorts of things faster and with cleaner code. I’ve never once seen a model generate code that’s as ugly and unreadable as a lot of the low quality code I’ve seen in my career (especially from Salesforce “devs” for example)

And even the ones that do the more creative problem solving can benefit from AI agents helping with research, documentation, data migration scripts, etc.

myko · a month ago
> and with cleaner code

I use AI pretty extensively and encourage my folks to use it as well but I've yet to see this come directly from an LLM. With human effort after the fact, sure, but LLMs tend to write inscrutable messes when left to their own devices.

myko commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship   polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool
stelonix · a month ago
It is not specific to right wing grifters. Left wing grifters use the same talking points but with a different reason behind. Yet they want to censor the same products: one group based on puritanism & moralism while the other based on feminism & LGBT rights. Both extremes want the same thing.
myko · a month ago
Reading this it seems to equate feminism and LGBTQ rights with extremism, which doesn't feel correct at all
myko commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship   polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool
myko · a month ago
Good. This is and has always been ridiculous.
myko commented on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program   kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/n... · Posted by u/ProAm
myko · a month ago
It isn't even a real program. This entire administration is a farce.
myko commented on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement   cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-... · Posted by u/rntn
ars · a month ago
Just because they occasionally (and even frequently) do good thing, does not mean that overall their policies don't harm them own economies.
myko · a month ago
The economy does not exist in a vacuum. Making number go up isn't the end goal, it is to improve citizens lives and society as a whole. Everything is a tradeoff.

u/myko

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