#nollms — Public Fediverse posts

I've been working my way through the list at handcraftedcode.org/ (thanks @jaredwhite ) and following the people there because I really want to connect with others who are resisting the siren song of vibe coding. Thanks to the many who have followed me back.

I'm really interested in hearing what everyone's doing with handcrafted code. But I'm especially interested in hearing how people are navigating the current job market. I know some are probably resigning themselves to using AI at work but not on personal projects, and I'm certainly not going to judge anyone for that: the economy sucks, you do what you have to to survive, no ethical consumption under capitalism, etc.

But I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who are making the principled stand not to use LLMs even at work, and I'm wondering: how's that going? Have people managed to find jobs that haven't bought into the hype? If so, how did you find such a job? My attempts to find some sort of curated online list of companies that don't require AI use have not been successful; it mostly turns up listicles from three years ago, with names of companies that all mandate AI use in 2026.

I left my AI-mandating job back in June. I'm thinking of going freelance and looking for contract work from companies who either don't like AI, or don't care whether or not I use it as long as I do good work. I'm not really sure how big a market there is for that, and I'd love to hear people's experience.

I'd really love to start some sort of mutual support network for working AI-free developers, like a way to share information about available no-AI jobs with prospective no-AI employees. But that's pretty much what FediHired is, and while I love that, I haven't had much success with it.

My other, more daring, plan is to form an employee-owned tech cooperative composed of developers who don't use LLMs and don't take contracts with clients who want us to use or implement them. I wonder if there's enough interest out here to support something like this?

#handcraftedcode #noai #nollms #coops #cooperatives

I've been working my way through the list at handcraftedcode.org/ (thanks @jaredwhite ) and following the people there because I really want to connect with others who are resisting the siren song of vibe coding. Thanks to the many who have followed me back.

I'm really interested in hearing what everyone's doing with handcrafted code. But I'm especially interested in hearing how people are navigating the current job market. I know some are probably resigning themselves to using AI at work but not on personal projects, and I'm certainly not going to judge anyone for that: the economy sucks, you do what you have to to survive, no ethical consumption under capitalism, etc.

But I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who are making the principled stand not to use LLMs even at work, and I'm wondering: how's that going? Have people managed to find jobs that haven't bought into the hype? If so, how did you find such a job? My attempts to find some sort of curated online list of companies that don't require AI use have not been successful; it mostly turns up listicles from three years ago, with names of companies that all mandate AI use in 2026.

I left my AI-mandating job back in June. I'm thinking of going freelance and looking for contract work from companies who either don't like AI, or don't care whether or not I use it as long as I do good work. I'm not really sure how big a market there is for that, and I'd love to hear people's experience.

I'd really love to start some sort of mutual support network for working AI-free developers, like a way to share information about available no-AI jobs with prospective no-AI employees. But that's pretty much what FediHired is, and while I love that, I haven't had much success with it.

My other, more daring, plan is to form an employee-owned tech cooperative composed of developers who don't use LLMs and don't take contracts with clients who want us to use or implement them. I wonder if there's enough interest out here to support something like this?

#handcraftedcode #noai #nollms #coops #cooperatives

When the tech bros tell us not to learn technical skills anymore, it makes me want to learn a lot more technical skills.

I'm not the only one, am I?

#AI #noai #llm #nollm #LLMs #NoLLMs

When the tech bros tell us not to learn technical skills anymore, it makes me want to learn a lot more technical skills.

I'm not the only one, am I?

#AI #noai #llm #nollm #LLMs #NoLLMs

AGI isn't coming. While the tech bros make wonderous claims about the abilities of their products, the tiny technical details of their offering show a completely different picture.

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#AI #noai #llm #LLMs #nollm #NoLLMs

AGI isn't coming. While the tech bros make wonderous claims about the abilities of their products, the tiny technical details of their offering show a completely different picture.

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#AI #noai #llm #LLMs #nollm #NoLLMs

I don't think AI coding tools are a good idea on the long run.

But what do I know. I only have a Master's degree in algorithmics, AI and ML. Not in business administration where the true authorities in the subject seem to be made.

#noai #ai #nollm #NoLLMs #llm #LLMs

Does anyone know of a code forge that is relatively protected against LLM scrapers, such that it's unlikely they have code from it in their dataset, without requiring humans to log in to see the code? I'm not demanding perfect anti-scraper security, I know it's a moving target.

I know that it's possible for me to self-host a forge and install #iocaine or whatever, but we should be able to do this stuff as a community, not always literally requiring do-it-yourself.

#NoAI #NoScrapers #NoLLMs

Does anyone know of a code forge that is relatively protected against LLM scrapers, such that it's unlikely they have code from it in their dataset, without requiring humans to log in to see the code? I'm not demanding perfect anti-scraper security, I know it's a moving target.

I know that it's possible for me to self-host a forge and install #iocaine or whatever, but we should be able to do this stuff as a community, not always literally requiring do-it-yourself.

#NoAI #NoScrapers #NoLLMs

今ふと思ってゾッとしたことだけど
最近始まった現代設定の漫画には「AI」（チャットボット系）を使用するキャラクターがもうちょこちょこ見かけてる
ここ1〜2年で押し付けられ始めたばかりなのに
でもその一方、コロナの存在を触れる現代設定の漫画は１つも見たことない（流行り出した当初のコロナをメインテーマとする短編な作品を除いて）
日本だけでも（後遺症の話はおろか）毎年数万人が亡くなられているのに
うまく言えないけど、普通におかしい
世間との認識の差がどんどん広がっていく😩

something horrifying that I just realized
I've now seen several comics set in the modern day which have characters use """""AI""""" (LLM chatbots), in spite of it only having started to be foisted on us in the past year or two
Meanwhile (excluding a few standalone exceptions from the start of the pandemic wherein it was The Focus of the story), I have seen 0 instances of covid coming up in series set in the modern day, period
the disease that continues to kill and disable tens of thousands of people every year
like, I can't put it into words, but the dissonance makes my skin crawl 😩

#コロナ禍は終わっていない #LLM反対 #CovidIsntOver #NoLLMs

Would there also be a "Center on Conscience and LLMs" ?
#NoAI #NoLLMs #NoSlop
https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116367998274256773

Would there also be a "Center on Conscience and LLMs" ?
#NoAI #NoLLMs #NoSlop
https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116367998274256773

🎉 Redox OS, the hipster operating system nobody asked for, is now proudly enforcing a Certificate of Origin and banning LLMs like it's the 1990s! 🚫📜 Because nothing says "cutting-edge" quite like retro bureaucracy and a firm stance against those pesky large language models. 😏💻
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md #RedoxOS #RetroBureaucracy #NoLLMs #HipsterTech #CertificateOfOrigin #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Redox OS, the hipster operating system nobody asked for, is now proudly enforcing a Certificate of Origin and banning LLMs like it's the 1990s! 🚫📜 Because nothing says "cutting-edge" quite like retro bureaucracy and a firm stance against those pesky large language models. 😏💻
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md #RedoxOS #RetroBureaucracy #NoLLMs #HipsterTech #CertificateOfOrigin #HackerNews #ngated

A much better writer than I is summing up perfectly why I have such disdain for Generative AI/LLMs.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this

#nollms

A much better writer than I is summing up perfectly why I have such disdain for Generative AI/LLMs.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this

#nollms

@MyWoolyMastadon

FFS. It's sort of like a normal person without a college education receiving an important legal document, and taking it down to the wino camp under the flyover and getting the drunkest and/or stupidest person there to explain the document to them. Why would any rational person do such a thing?!

#NoLLMs

@MyWoolyMastadon

FFS. It's sort of like a normal person without a college education receiving an important legal document, and taking it down to the wino camp under the flyover and getting the drunkest and/or stupidest person there to explain the document to them. Why would any rational person do such a thing?!

#NoLLMs

Deleted my Nanowrimo account.

Delenda est.

#NaNoWriMo #NoLLMs

If you have any positive or neutral thoughts about "ai" and llms: please block me. Have a good day. (Walks back to wooden shed to sharpen a sword.)
#opposingai #noAI #nollms #againstllms #ai #aiart