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I assume that over my dead body is part of this transaction.

#FuckAI #NoAI #AITeaParty

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116954444714082687

This is why I turned off everything that used OpenAI for anything. Even thought it was a bit handy when #Karakeep got tags automatically for items I bookmarked, I did not want to contribute any money in the form of buying tokens nor any legitimacy in using the product. I want the whole fucking enterprise to go down as soon as possible so we can buy all their shit at the liquidation sales.

#FuckAI #AITeaParty

Like this and all of its ilk, the only possible reason to click "Learn More" is to find out how to disable it forever.

#NoAI #AITeaParty #FuckAI

A hypothetical conversation that is not hypothetical enough.
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Tech bros: We have invented a new health product. It looks at your body statistics and behaviors and biometric data, runs it through AI to determine the optimal exercise routine and diet.

Me: That sounds promising ...

Tech bros: But even better, we have a humanoid robot that will then go to the gym and perform that entire exercise routine for you. Then it eats the food! It will save so many hours every month. Efficiency!

Me: Wait, you have spectacularly missed the point and conflated the part that provides some value with the part that provides negative value. Can I have just the analysis without the robot?

Tech bros: Are you crazy? No! It's all or nothing, baby. You can't realize full output with just the first part.

Me: Then I absolutely don't want it.

Tech bros: The future is coming with or without you. Join up or get left behind!

#NoAI #FuckAI #AITeaParty

I'm about to hit the unsubscribe button. If they ask me why, this subject line is the reason for having had enough of Udemy's bullshit enough to want no more.

#noai #aiteaparty #fuckai

#fuckai #AITeaParty

#AI is ultimately not about technology per se. It uses technology to achieve a goal, which is to further concentrate money in the hands of the oligarchy. Why scatter capital across a bunch of stupid human workers via wages when you can spend that money into another asshole billionaire's coffers? That asshole will turn around and spend it back into yours in the process inflating both of your balance sheets.

Real money gets concentrated and additional fake money gets created. It's a great deal for a few dozen of the richest, worst people in the world. It's doom for everyone else.

But sure, tell me how productive Claude makes you.

#AITeaParty #FuckAI

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116328578684084741

Truly the release of the #ClaudeCode is the greatest possible gift to AI skeptics like myself. They proudly proclaimed themselves as eating their own dog food in coding it with itself. Like all dog food, it ends up as dog shit.

Recently I disengaged with my local developer community when at an in-person event where I was looking for specific recommendations the only advice given was "Just have Claude code it." At the time I found this unsatisfying. Now that we've seen the quality of what Claude code produces for itself - one would assume the crown jewel of code production - I smugly double down on my rejection of that advice.

I will steadfastly refuse to erode my own skill set in favor of a tool that can achieve short term goals at the cost of all quality, understanding and pride in one's output. Claude and all LLMs can go to hell.

#AITeaParty #FuckAI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116324270189877586

This is now my favorite regex of all time. I wish it was my job to maintain it.

/\b(wtf|wth|ffs|omfg|shit(ty|tiest)?|dumbass|horrible|awful|piss(ed|ing)? off|piece of (shit|crap|junk)|what the (fuck|hell)|fucking? (broken|useless|terrible|awful|horrible)|fuck you|screw (this|you)|so frustrating|this sucks|damn it)\b/

I note among other half-assedness, this matches "fuck you", "screw you", "screw this" but not "fuck this". It also matches "piece of shit" but does not match "pos" .

#FuckAI #athropicisgoodatthis #AITeaParty

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116301246624014978

This was exactly the decision making process I went through when I opted to move to my own self-hosted Forgejo instance. I even got the actions working to build my #11ty blog and it wasn't that difficult.

I don't want to fend off the AI features and I don't want my stuff training the models. Bleh. I'm tired of #microslop in a big way.

https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/posts/2026/02/18/forgejo-actions/

#noai #AITeaParty

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fn0rd/116253301472991885

Holy. Fucking. Shit. This kind of thing is not why I retired but it is why I am grateful every day that I do not have to work in IT in the #AIBubble.

#AITeaParty #ThatIsSomeBullshit

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Sure, your vibe coded app is great. So I told Claude to look at yours and make one just like it but now I control the code of that one. Did I plagiarize your plagiarized work? Will I have mine plagiarized?

Boo hoo. Fuck you. No honor amongst thieves.

#AITeaParty #noai

I've had a big few days. I've made changes to my blog to support the human.json format and added an AI statement to my blog. I've also today farted around with tags.pub, registering this account as one from which tags are pulled and following a few tags myself.

Earlier today, I happened to run across the AI statement from Beto Dealmeida, the guy behind the human.json project. While he is all about asserting the content of his blog was 100% human authored, he built his blog with Claude.

https://robida.net/ai

I guess this is like finding out that you are more hardcore and straightedge than Ian MacKaye.

#noai #AITeaParty

Over the weekend I ran across the Human.json project. This is a protocol so lightweight it practically doesn't exist. It's a JSON file you can put on your website in which you can vouch for other sites as being completely created by humans with no LLM involvement. This allows other tools in which you explicitly trust a site to show you sites that have a transitive chain of trust from the one you picked.

I had one of those "Oh cool" manic episodes. I learned about it and within the hour I had it up live on this site. I have a pretty small pool of vouches right now. I'm not planning to expand willy nilly. I started to add other sites but then I realized while 99.9% sure they have no LLM in their creation, that number was not 100%. I will only add someone to my vouch if they directly tell me convincingly or make a clear public statement renouncing LLMs in the creation of the site.

It's a small step, but a step. After yelling at the incoming tide, it's nice to have something concrete one can do. If you want to vouch for me, I promise that Evil Genius Chronicles has no generative AI anywhere in the chain. As I am finding out various tools are using LLMs in their code, I am removing them. I will keep my hands as clean as I can in this filthy business.

Good luck out there.

Imagine if some techbros told you they invented a robot. Instead of you going to the gym, it can go for you and do all your exercises with perfect form. You would think they had spectacularly missed the point of what automation is and is not supposed to do.

This is exactly how I feel about 99% of the LLM use cases. We don't need a robot doing the things that skills us up, gives us the wisdom to improve things. It's dumb, and obvious that the goal is to make us helpless. Train the LLM on our expertise, make us forget it then sell it back to us at a hefty markup. Fuck all y'all.

#NoAI #AITeaParty

@_elena May I nominate myself? I have been using the hashtag #AITeaParty for my efforts to not use it directly or indirectly. I've also blogged yesterday about my depressing experience in going to my first in person developer meeting in years.

https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/posts/2026/03/10/just-have-claude-code-it/

The more I think about it, the better that whole "Replace the word 'AI' or 'LLM' with 'cocaine' " idea is. The analogy is so good.

You use it because everyone else is and it makes them more productive in the short term. You get a burst of stuff done. It gets expensive, then so expensive it is a problem. In the short term lots happens but in the long term, everything gets worse and worse. Quality of work suffers, you as a person and your skills suffer. Eventually, the situation is too bad to keep the plates spinning and everything crashes.

The only problem is that with an individual on cocaine, that crash can be followed by rehab and straightening out. My guess is that there has already been so much damage done in skills atrophy, brain drain, bullshit injected into codebases that it will take years or decades to unwind. The longer the frenzy, the worse the damage.

This is exactly the same sort of existential crisis as climate change, playing out the same way, perpetrated by the same kind of people and running concurrently. Welcome to your future. We are all fucked.

#AI #AITeaParty #CocaineIsAHellOfADrug

I attended a local developer event, my first since retiring. This is exactly the kind of group we were trying to create 20 years ago when my peers and I were organizing conferences and meetups. It's in a great space by great people, much better than a non-tech hub beach tourist town deserves. This is not about them, it's about the very depressing technology zeitgeist. I won't even link the group because I don't want to cast aspersions about the fine work they are doing. I cannot stress too highly they are doing nothing wrong.

It was a lunch tech talk about APIs. The first 30 minutes were quite interesting to me and then the talk drifted to Claude and the various LLMs people use to deliver work. Once there, it never strayed. I grew increasingly checked out but tried to politely pay attention and figure out if any of this had value to me.

At the end of the event, I asked for a specific recommendation for a kind of open source software. To be honest, asking this one question of fellow human developers was 80% of the reasons why I drove the 30 minutes to downtown. The only answers I got were "Have Claude code it for you. " To me that is worse than "I don't know" which is perfectly acceptable. To an LLM enthusiasist, it is the answer to literally any development question so I find it kind of pointless to say out loud.

It's not them. I expect every single software engineer between 22 and 50 is in exactly the same spot. I just found that it really drained the life out of me. Not one of these enthusiastic developers thought they were building a future in which they were irrelevant. They were happy they get more code created per day. I wrote down the phrase that jumped out at me - "for reasons I don't fully understand". This was in regards to why token usage is lower doing things via CLI than API but it can be generalized.

Whatever decisions were made to create the code, starting at infinite possibilities down to the final source files, no one responsible for it understands why they were made. They are happy to have something that wiggles when you poke it. It passes the test cases that Claude also wrote, so great. I asked directly about this and was told it was fine, so who am I to think this sounds like the beginning of a long slow catastrophe?

To paraphrase an analogy I posted on Mastodon: Imagine your boss asks you to dig a hole. You start with a shovel but then realize that you can do the job much faster with a backhoe. You dig the hole in 10 minutes instead of all day. Your boss pats you on the back and says "Great work! Now get in." and starts filling in the hole. That is what coding with LLMs is to me, using your well-meaning efforts to build a future that doesn't need you.

If I wasn't already retired, I would have just quit today. It makes me want to never touch a line of code again. I guess by wanting to design, write, test and understand my own code I'm the tech equivalent of a guy in a leather apron doing wood work with hand tools. Maybe it's for the best I get out of the way, while the human centipede of code continually gets redigested into forms that are higher percentages of shit. Let younger people make the best of this world while I wait to join the COBOL and Fortran programmers on the scrap heap of history. Me along with all the other dinosaurs and their IDEs that actually touched keyboards and went to school to learn about the various algorithmic complexities and other arcane arts that no longer matter.

Goodbye cruel tech world. I wish I could miss you more.

This is largely the path I am also taking. I buy practically nothing from Amazon anymore. I deleted my Facebook account. I am de-Googling to the extent possible.

All of these companies are actively hurting modern life. I am trying to extract myself from the shitshow. It is exactly zero fun and it makes every little thing a huge pain in the ass. Still, I find it worth it. Fuck the Magnificent 7 and the less Magnificent 50 and all the AI bubble companies and all the fascism enablers who are willing to destroy democracy for a 3% reduction in their corporate taxes. I wish them all into the cornfield.

https://ryanfb.xyz/etc/2026/02/23/i'm_getting_the_hell_out.html

#AITeaParty #FuckFacebook #FuckGoogle #FuckFascism #FuckAmazon

Here is a thing that only recently set off my alarm bells. I see people talking up their vibe-coded project like this:

"In only a few minutes, I had a full project filled out and completely tested."

When they talk about the time scales, it makes it obvious that the test cases had to have also been generated by the #LLM because a human couldn't write the tests for a non-trivial project that fast. So, these people are content that they have a proper project because the code generated by the LLM is passing test cases generated by the LLM? Holy fucking shit!

I could **almost** buy machine assistance if you sat down and defined your functionality, wrote up the test cases that would constitute proper behavior and then let the LLM code until it passed **your test cases**. Defining test cases is hard. Making them complete requires care, attention and some deep thought.

Literally anyone can dash off bullshit ones that test the positive case and a trivial error or two. Really exploring the possibilities of what can go wrong is serious work. Because different languages handle different things (think about booleans in strongly typed languages vs the "truthiness" of Javascript for example), this is not a one-size fits all process. Training sets that worked perfectly for one project might shit the bed for another.

When I see people talking up the productivity, I'm now paying special attention to this part. More important than reviewing the emitted functional code is reviewing the emitted test code. That is where the seeds of catastrophe lie.

#AITeaParty

RE: https://esq.social/@annmlipton/116108242514723130

Take a machine that generates the probable next word based on the previous. Now train that on the collective output of an unjust society. It will provide unjust recommendations.

File this one under "No fucking shit, Sherlock!"

#AiTeaParty #LLM #FuckAI

@rasterweb I still am struggling to find a name for this class of tools that are the opposite of "generative AI." The best I have is "analytical AI."

These are the uses that make sense to me. I use whisper and similar tools to create transcripts of every podcast I do. Then I put it all in #obsidian and can search for how many times I have told the same damn story.

Even as I am working like a bastard to minimize touching generative AI as party of my #AITeaParty (a Sisyphean task that is straight up impossible) I don't feel bad about using whisper or tesseract or other analytical AI tools. As you say, that is what they **should be doing**!!!!

Today is the day I start my own #AITeaParty. I am throwing that shit in the harbor and I invite you to do the same.

For reasons, I am documenting multiple generations of birth certificates. I have scanned some and been emailed some. I want them all together in a good place and I started to upload them to my #Paperless install in my docker. Then I thought "Is this fucking thing hooked up to any #AI anything? Will my family's birth certificates become part of a training set if I collect them in this place?"

The fact that I had to go and check before I put sensitive information in a tool under my full control was a wake-up call. I am disconnecting everything from everything because I don't want to ever think that thought again.

I have my #Karakeep hooked up to #OpenAI but I am disconnecting it today. I'd rather not have automatically generated tags than the history of what I find interesting in a training set. They are cute but not worth it.

Generalizing from there: is there any benefit I receive from any generative AI process worth the risks of touching it at all, or of it having any aspect of my data? Fuck no. Today's the day. I've been an indifferent but unmotivated critic. From this second on, I vow to remove it from anything under my control. If it is a third or fourth party risk because the product I use, I will work to extract myself and my data from those products. If your work product was generated in whole or in part with generative AI tools, I don't want it. If you think they are a good idea, I don't want you and your judgement affecting me.

Clearly this is an uphill climb because the percentage of commercial products and freelancers that use #OpenAI or #Gemini or #Grok or #HellscapeAI rounds to everything. It won't be perfect and it won't be easy but I have the time and energy and I'm fired up.

#FuckAI