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All other (valid and invalid) arguments aside—the worst thing about "AI for coding" is that no one ever even mentions how this is better for the people who end up using the software produced.
(Spoiler: It isn't.)
No, what it's used for is product managers offloading product design decisions on programmers, because "with AI they can now just churn out features" and "we'll keep what sticks". (The first feature they're forced to churn out is to add useless LLM-based crap to applications. You know the feature: the one that all power-users of the software desperately go to Reddit for in an exercise of futility trying to find out how to permanently turn it off.)
It's a self-feeding feature creep and software bloat moloch—eating programmers and users.

I need an IDE with a Java mode for Kotlin developers. Something to add the `new` keyword for me when I type `ClassName(` 😢

I need an IDE with a Java mode for Kotlin developers. Something to add the `new` keyword for me when I type `ClassName(` 😢

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-add

Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI for its upcoming S26 series
Samsung says Perplexity's AI agent will be integrated with Galaxy AI in its upcoming flagships.

Okay I actually timed it: 8 minutes and 40 seconds to delete 13 lines and add 4.
I sure hope my promotion prospects aren’t based on lines of code / hour, or I’m in real trouble compared to my baseline.

Users of #Emacs #orgmode: I've added "my-org-block-interruption()" to my config. It was generated by Claude.
If invoked within a blog, it inserts # END_ # BEGIN_ lines that match the current block.
This way, I'm able to interrupt a QUOTE block to add some comments, a SRC block to…

@… is secure boot disabled? Add a photo, if you like.

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

Oh great! More novels and books and series that I could add to my increasing books-to-read list! 📚
#books #novels

Apple says it will bring "advanced video capabilities" to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-podcasts-vi…

Apple Podcasts Launching New Video Features
Apple Podcasts will add integrated video capabilities this spring including the ability to dynamically insert ads into video shows.

I have a tendency to write sentences starting with phrases like "It is noteworthy that [...]". Usually, these add no value and I try to remove such phrases when I notice them. The reader already knows that I find something noteworthy. Otherwise, I would simply not write about it at all.

You may not need that “AI” voice thing that reads your web pages aloud to users. It comes free in the browser:
• Edge’s Read Aloud (Ctrl Shift U),
• Firefox’s and Chrome’s reader mode text-to-speech,
• Safari’s Speech feature.
Stop adding trackers to your sites. Don’t add WCAG risk.

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

@… I would start with using Dragon's tools to make its vocabulary and word usage as much like what I intended to write as possible. If I were an established author such as you, I would feed it my most recent work. I would add as many specialized words as I needed. (I had to do these things in my niche legal practice.)
Then, I would think about ways to us…

Apple says it will bring "advanced video capabilities" to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-podcasts-vi…

Apple Podcasts Launching New Video Features
Apple Podcasts will add integrated video capabilities this spring including the ability to dynamically insert ads into video shows.

This ( https://github.com/Juris-M/zotero-odf-scan-plugin/issues/60) makes me unreasonably happy. A plugin for Zotero that I really need, that was stuck at v6, has been updated to work with v7 and v8.
Many thanks to jwingnut and @…

@… Careful curation. Keeping my mastodon focused on gamedevs instead of games helps: My broader bsky follows are all doom. Keyword filters for all kinds of cheeto-man topics, GoFundMe, and other topics correlated with life going wrong.
Add a content filter for ice and be okay with missing some posts about a cool ice level. Or use …

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115908614546379721
@… what exactly are the symptoms? Add a photo,…

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/cloud_hosted_openclaw/

Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
: As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out

TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk
TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

@… I tested with UFS, it's not enough. I'll add to the bug report.