#ailent — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ailent, aggregated by home.social.
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I realised my inability to quit using coding agents during my self-imposed "AI Lent" wasn't due to willpower, but workload. Being overwhelmed with tasks made me pull the slot machine arm, hoping to land on a generation that will make the painful problem go away.
Tackling which work I'm agreeing to do, and which work I'm refusing was the key to letting myself slow down and enjoy coding without assistance again.
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I realised my inability to quit using coding agents during my self-imposed "AI Lent" wasn't due to willpower, but workload. Being overwhelmed with tasks made me pull the slot machine arm, hoping to land on a generation that will make the painful problem go away.
Tackling which work I'm agreeing to do, and which work I'm refusing was the key to letting myself slow down and enjoy coding without assistance again.
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I realised my inability to quit using coding agents during my self-imposed "AI Lent" wasn't due to willpower, but workload. Being overwhelmed with tasks made me pull the slot machine arm, hoping to land on a generation that will make the painful problem go away.
Tackling which work I'm agreeing to do, and which work I'm refusing was the key to letting myself slow down and enjoy coding without assistance again.
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I realised my inability to quit using coding agents during my self-imposed "AI Lent" wasn't due to willpower, but workload. Being overwhelmed with tasks made me pull the slot machine arm, hoping to land on a generation that will make the painful problem go away.
Tackling which work I'm agreeing to do, and which work I'm refusing was the key to letting myself slow down and enjoy coding without assistance again.
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I realised my inability to quit using coding agents during my self-imposed "AI Lent" wasn't due to willpower, but workload. Being overwhelmed with tasks made me pull the slot machine arm, hoping to land on a generation that will make the painful problem go away.
Tackling which work I'm agreeing to do, and which work I'm refusing was the key to letting myself slow down and enjoy coding without assistance again.
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For the past 40 days, I've _tried_ to hold an AI Lent--a period of no AI use, based on a tongue-in-cheek reading of the Christian Lent before Easter.
After 40 days, here are my anecdotal findings:
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For the past 40 days, I've _tried_ to hold an AI Lent--a period of no AI use, based on a tongue-in-cheek reading of the Christian Lent before Easter.
After 40 days, here are my anecdotal findings:
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For the past 40 days, I've _tried_ to hold an AI Lent--a period of no AI use, based on a tongue-in-cheek reading of the Christian Lent before Easter.
After 40 days, here are my anecdotal findings:
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For the past 40 days, I've _tried_ to hold an AI Lent--a period of no AI use, based on a tongue-in-cheek reading of the Christian Lent before Easter.
After 40 days, here are my anecdotal findings:
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For the past 40 days, I've _tried_ to hold an AI Lent--a period of no AI use, based on a tongue-in-cheek reading of the Christian Lent before Easter.
After 40 days, here are my anecdotal findings:
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Day 2 of #AILent: writing a small Express-based API, a lot of ideas actually came to mind when letting my mind flow freely, instead of using a plan mode to iterate (why use Apigee, Express has enough middleware for rate limiting and auth already), can I export the entire database to a JSON file and use HTTP Range Headers to seek through it?
The hard part has been finding information, websearch is terrible, I'm spending 5-10 seconds proving to Cloudflare that yes, I AM HUMAN. Luckily Express is heavily documented and has tonnes of QA on Stackoverflow.
I did really miss looking at my kitted out neovim config, which I was kinda robbed from with Claude Code.
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Day 2 of #AILent: writing a small Express-based API, a lot of ideas actually came to mind when letting my mind flow freely, instead of using a plan mode to iterate (why use Apigee, Express has enough middleware for rate limiting and auth already), can I export the entire database to a JSON file and use HTTP Range Headers to seek through it?
The hard part has been finding information, websearch is terrible, I'm spending 5-10 seconds proving to Cloudflare that yes, I AM HUMAN. Luckily Express is heavily documented and has tonnes of QA on Stackoverflow.
I did really miss looking at my kitted out neovim config, which I was kinda robbed from with Claude Code.
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Day 2 of #AILent: writing a small Express-based API, a lot of ideas actually came to mind when letting my mind flow freely, instead of using a plan mode to iterate (why use Apigee, Express has enough middleware for rate limiting and auth already), can I export the entire database to a JSON file and use HTTP Range Headers to seek through it?
The hard part has been finding information, websearch is terrible, I'm spending 5-10 seconds proving to Cloudflare that yes, I AM HUMAN. Luckily Express is heavily documented and has tonnes of QA on Stackoverflow.
I did really miss looking at my kitted out neovim config, which I was kinda robbed from with Claude Code.
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Day 2 of #AILent: writing a small Express-based API, a lot of ideas actually came to mind when letting my mind flow freely, instead of using a plan mode to iterate (why use Apigee, Express has enough middleware for rate limiting and auth already), can I export the entire database to a JSON file and use HTTP Range Headers to seek through it?
The hard part has been finding information, websearch is terrible, I'm spending 5-10 seconds proving to Cloudflare that yes, I AM HUMAN. Luckily Express is heavily documented and has tonnes of QA on Stackoverflow.
I did really miss looking at my kitted out neovim config, which I was kinda robbed from with Claude Code.
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Day 2 of #AILent: writing a small Express-based API, a lot of ideas actually came to mind when letting my mind flow freely, instead of using a plan mode to iterate (why use Apigee, Express has enough middleware for rate limiting and auth already), can I export the entire database to a JSON file and use HTTP Range Headers to seek through it?
The hard part has been finding information, websearch is terrible, I'm spending 5-10 seconds proving to Cloudflare that yes, I AM HUMAN. Luckily Express is heavily documented and has tonnes of QA on Stackoverflow.
I did really miss looking at my kitted out neovim config, which I was kinda robbed from with Claude Code.
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Pausing #AI use made me realise that the human desire to create intelligence in the image of ourselves might be doing more harm than good.
Anthropomorphisining AI makes us encode the same biases, hierarchies and heuristics that humans use due to either constraints on cognition, communication or specialisation.
Who says AIs need to have specialisation, there's nothing intrinsically specialised about frontier models? Who says AI has to follow workflows we follow due to our fleshly constraints?
Most breakthrough happended by cutting out human assumptions: AlphaGo's self-play leading to the infamous Move 37 v. DeepBlue's opening book of more than 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games.
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Pausing #AI use made me realise that the human desire to create intelligence in the image of ourselves might be doing more harm than good.
Anthropomorphisining AI makes us encode the same biases, hierarchies and heuristics that humans use due to either constraints on cognition, communication or specialisation.
Who says AIs need to have specialisation, there's nothing intrinsically specialised about frontier models? Who says AI has to follow workflows we follow due to our fleshly constraints?
Most breakthrough happended by cutting out human assumptions: AlphaGo's self-play leading to the infamous Move 37 v. DeepBlue's opening book of more than 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games.
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Pausing #AI use made me realise that the human desire to create intelligence in the image of ourselves might be doing more harm than good.
Anthropomorphisining AI makes us encode the same biases, hierarchies and heuristics that humans use due to either constraints on cognition, communication or specialisation.
Who says AIs need to have specialisation, there's nothing intrinsically specialised about frontier models? Who says AI has to follow workflows we follow due to our fleshly constraints?
Most breakthrough happended by cutting out human assumptions: AlphaGo's self-play leading to the infamous Move 37 v. DeepBlue's opening book of more than 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games.
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Pausing #AI use made me realise that the human desire to create intelligence in the image of ourselves might be doing more harm than good.
Anthropomorphisining AI makes us encode the same biases, hierarchies and heuristics that humans use due to either constraints on cognition, communication or specialisation.
Who says AIs need to have specialisation, there's nothing intrinsically specialised about frontier models? Who says AI has to follow workflows we follow due to our fleshly constraints?
Most breakthrough happended by cutting out human assumptions: AlphaGo's self-play leading to the infamous Move 37 v. DeepBlue's opening book of more than 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games.
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Pausing #AI use made me realise that the human desire to create intelligence in the image of ourselves might be doing more harm than good.
Anthropomorphisining AI makes us encode the same biases, hierarchies and heuristics that humans use due to either constraints on cognition, communication or specialisation.
Who says AIs need to have specialisation, there's nothing intrinsically specialised about frontier models? Who says AI has to follow workflows we follow due to our fleshly constraints?
Most breakthrough happended by cutting out human assumptions: AlphaGo's self-play leading to the infamous Move 37 v. DeepBlue's opening book of more than 4,000 positions and 700,000 grandmaster games.
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Day 1 of #AILent : cancelled Claude Max, uninstalled Claude Code (we won't be needing them for the next 40 days).
Wrote a small Nix package, vim motions feeling rusty.
Also feels much harder to think how to structure a piece of code. Definitely feeling the atrophy
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Day 1 of #AILent : cancelled Claude Max, uninstalled Claude Code (we won't be needing them for the next 40 days).
Wrote a small Nix package, vim motions feeling rusty.
Also feels much harder to think how to structure a piece of code. Definitely feeling the atrophy
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Day 1 of #AILent : cancelled Claude Max, uninstalled Claude Code (we won't be needing them for the next 40 days).
Wrote a small Nix package, vim motions feeling rusty.
Also feels much harder to think how to structure a piece of code. Definitely feeling the atrophy
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Day 1 of #AILent : cancelled Claude Max, uninstalled Claude Code (we won't be needing them for the next 40 days).
Wrote a small Nix package, vim motions feeling rusty.
Also feels much harder to think how to structure a piece of code. Definitely feeling the atrophy
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Day 1 of #AILent : cancelled Claude Max, uninstalled Claude Code (we won't be needing them for the next 40 days).
Wrote a small Nix package, vim motions feeling rusty.
Also feels much harder to think how to structure a piece of code. Definitely feeling the atrophy