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People are using « tokens used » as productivity metric ?! « Tokens used »?!?!? That’s like, the first time « lines of code created » gets beaten for the « worst metric of software engineering » 🫠
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Romeu Moura
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Endless conversation — with friends, compilers — on art, equivocacy, Symmathesy, methods, absurdism, dialectic, paradigm jumps, serendipity.
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@hazelweakly « being able to reformulate back what a person said, specially if you disagree with it. to the point the person feels at least heard: maybe even understood » is like my number one by far
Some dude, genuinely: wait what does the word “pedantic” means ?
@Cyriux@mastodon.social , helpfully : someone that uses knowledge to assert power
Me: *panics*
C: *laughs* go on Romeu ! Say it!
Me: I… can’t contribute to this without being pedantic 😭
C: you said too much already!
Me: … pedantics specifically use the knowledge of vocabulary/conceptual nuance to assert that power not just any knowledge 🙈
C: I have nothing lore to add.
(Folks I AM AWARE IM NOT BEATING THE ALLEGATIONS)
People adding “I don’t want to be de-skilled“ to their pre-prompts:
• why do you think LLM providers don’t put that in the default pre-prompts?
• do you think most people want to be de-skilled and hence they cater to that?
• do you hope the machine can understand this? Save you from de-skilling?
“I don’t have a shadow IT problem” — person that definitely have a shadow IT solution #flowcon
“Not deciding is deciding to let time decide for you” — @selketjah@mastodon.social #Flowcon
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@cford@toot.thoughtworks.com @roundcrisis@types.pl @ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io dont know about that specifically but at the very least feedback from different communities are good stressors 😇
@samir i keep repeating to myself “my admiration for them was an illusion that needed to die” but clearly: same.
No only grieving people i admire but also profound friends that I loved and admired.
@zekjur 😱😱😱😱😱
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@sarahghp unfollowed one person for that hot take, but have only seen that that once , maybe missing the others etc etc
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@clementd@framapiaf.org étant un hipster , est-ce que le fait que tu utilises un language ne le rends pas déjà un peu un language de hipster ? :p
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@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net it may be an effect of the specific method I use for coding but in my case very often , by design.
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@roundcrisis@types.pl @ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io my very personal answer is :
Please get some feedback from some people in academia about « what changes do we need to this blog post to make it citable in academic works »