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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22315 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes
Current political developments worldwide illustrate that research on democratic backsliding is as important as ever. A recent exchange in Political Science & Politics (2/2024) has highlighted again a fundamental challenge in this literature: the measurement of democracy. With many democracy indicators consisting of subjective assessments rather than factual observations, trends in democracy over time could be due to human biases in the coding of these indicators rather than empirical facts. In …

I want to do a Boiler Room reboot, but instead of a room full of stock brokers, it’s a room full of vibe coders with Ben Affleck yelling at them to “VIBE HARDER YOU BASTARDS!”
Hollywood, please call me.

On the train to Barcelona for @… ! Having already spent a couple of days surrounded by live coders in a Peak District retreat I've got this weird thing where I keep seeing live coders just walking around everywhere who turn out to be lookalikes
I'll be involved with a paper about choreographic notation for robots with @…

First #AI came for the artists, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not make art.
Then AI came for the coders, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not code.
Then AI came for the shitposters, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not post shit.
Then AI came for the #coffee

Today I deployed an #AI backed code review system as part of the @… #monorepo PR review checks.
Is it going to replace coders? No. Is it throwing up amazing ins…

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
"Developers, coders, nerds, even regular users — we have power. We can demand that the platforms we use give us access to control our experiences using code."
https://anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/

I think the main chat channel for the live coding conference @… is on the 'live code earth' telegram group:
https://t.me/ xVw8n42FHk84MTc0
I hear it w…

techno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.