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Ron Jeffries

RonJeffries@mastodon.social

<p>XP guy. ronjeffries.com/articles/bio
Old, programmer for more than six decades. Early XP learner / proponent. Manifesto author.
I try to be helpful, and funny. Sometimes succeed. If something I say troubles you, I probably meant to be amusing. Call me on it. I want to learn. 
Pronouns he/him go best with the beard. I&#39;ll try to honor yours, and am fallible.</p>

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    RE: https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/117135902637208489 Fun book!

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/117140593781802189 Clever!

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    Hello, loves! Canine Interference After way too long, I have the scrolling and zooming working almost exactly as I intend. And I can nearly explain it. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/p/x/

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    I made a donation to a candidate running against a fascist toady whom I particularly dislike. Within a day, my texts are being bombarded by requests for money from every corner. Never gonna do that again.

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    Hello, loves! Nerd-Sniped Myself Wouldn&amp;#39;t you just know that I&amp;#39;d get a better idea for the scrolling code? Let&amp;#39;s try it. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/p/w/

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    Will no one rid me of this evil orange fool and his lickspittle cronies?

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@pgoetz/117158001920419853 So, let me see if I understand, this is better than multiplying by 1.6 in the event that you just CAN drive 55, and can compute fib in your head?

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    Damn. DAMN. I was researching FSMs, as one does. The cursed AI overview offered an example. Very trivial, nothing like what I need. It has that question area. I told it to make a change in the direction I wanted. It provided a better example. Two steps later, it offered a style of solution that I would not have thought of, that is better than what I would do in that situation. It&#39;s not what I need, but as a step toward what I need but it&#39;s useful. I am fascinated, and I do not like...

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    I would like it to become a thing for interviewers to say: &quot;Just one more question: what the fuck is wrong with you?&quot;

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    I go to bed now.

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    Hello, loves! Got a bit carried away with refactoring this morning. Is it worth it? One More Thing ... I see one more thing that needs doing. And then I propose that we have a little fun. What am I saying, programming IS fun for me. CW: Brief LLM excursion. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/s/s/

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    RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116862461351351480 Eat the rich. Start now.

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    I have a simple idea that I think may be quite nifty. Maybe I&amp;#39;ll nap first, or finish this Carl book. Or both.

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    Hello, loves! Let&amp;#39;s See ... ... if we can gin up something that&amp;#39;s kind of fun. I have a simple idea that seems promising. Turns out to be Very Pleasing! https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/s/r/

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    Hm, are the movies not working in my latest article? Too big or something? Let me know. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/s/r/

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    RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772 Important.

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    I do the work because I enjoy doing it. I don&#39;t let the demon do the work, because I enjoy doing the work. And because the demon is a demon, not a benign genie. And because the demon steals human&#39;s work. And because the demon enriches the ultra-rich. And because the demon costs humans their jobs. And because the demon destroys the environment. And because the demon is the tool of the oppressor. I do the work because it is my work, and I enjoy doing it.

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    Dammit. I completed today&#39;s article and was wondering how many lines it was on the screen. I didn&#39;t find that out, but Safari included a menu item &quot;Summarize&quot;, clearly an &quot;AI&quot; summary of some kind, so I clicked it. It provided two very coherent paragraphs that sounded quite certain about it all. Each paragraph was substantially correct, and each included an important error that resulted in a misstatement of what was really in there. Damn &quot;AI&quot; and the horse...

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    @Pantouffles@mastodon.social Wow!

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    RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/116526787448440204 Upon hearing this, my dear wife reported that she feels quite normal today.

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    If you are using or touting LLMs, you are supporting the destruction of the environment, the loss of jobs, transfer of money from regular folx to the rich. You are betraying humanity. There is, however money to be made, so that&amp;#39;s probably just fine.

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    I am, of course, concerned for us all, victims of this evil rich idiocracy, but ever so much more concerned for my brothers, sisters, siblings of color, or who are subject to gender- or orientation-based discrimination, or who are being bombed out of their homes, their countries by aggressors, or subject to being oppressed in any form. I do not know what to do. I do not know what anyone can do. I guess we all just do what little things we can, and hope for the butterfly effect.

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    Fossil fuels are bad. Cars are bad. Ideally, I should use no fossil fuel, not drive a car. Is it better to use less fuel, better to drive less, rather than make no change in what I do? Seems it must be. This is a question about &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot;. Happens that I don&amp;#39;t use any of the programming &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot; things. I know folx who do. I&amp;#39;m wondering what I should think about that.

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    RE: https://functional.cafe/@chris__martin/116460722561583481 Dude, if you wrote really good specs, we&amp;#39;d just compile and run them. 😀

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@cammerman/116450016476591367 Ron shouts a bad word ...

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    Interview with Ron Jeffries Markus Gärtner interviewed Ron Jeffries, co-author of the Agile Manifesto and Coach of the first Extreme Programming team. Ron reflects back on the past 20-or-so-years of Agile Software Development and dares to look ahead on things to come. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-x024/-v04/8/

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    RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116426284818812798 Interesting. Identifies a key issue. I&amp;#39;m not convinced about the proposed solutions, but I could be quite wrong. My core objections to LLM-AI remain untouched: not good for humans, not good for the world, but good for the oligarchy, who are already an immense threat to humanity at large.

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    RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116385638367341889 A bit harsh. I like it!

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    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116385454951248902 Sabotage, one of the well-known ways to resist the system. And if ever a system needed resisting, today&amp;#39;s does.

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    Will no one rid me of this demented orange buffoon and his sycophantic evil enablers?