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So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

That's why you don't trust #AI.

My talk from #QCon San Francisco 2025 is now public with video and transcript. Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit. My #AI native approach to using #Claude to experiment and benchmark different approa…

Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit
Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude Flow. Discussing real-world experiments in BDD, MCP servers, and language porting, he discusses why the future of engineering lies in building platforms that orchestrate AI-driven development.

Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
#AI

"Cartography of generative AI"
#AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alien…

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.
But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.
#LLM

How to (Anti) AI Better by Dr. Fatima
#ai #youtube

#TIL that video game preservation website #Myrient is another casualty of the rising costs of RAM and SSDs caused by the #AIBubble. 😠

Retro Video Game Preservation Site Myrient Shutting Down
The impact of AI datacenters on hosting and hardware costs have made maintaining the site unsustainable, its founder said

Interesting
#ai

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.

Automating erasure.
#AI

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
Canva’s new Magic Layers AI feature has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs

2023 in #AI4LAM terms feels a very long time ago! It's not easy to find the videos from Fantastic Futures 2023 so for findability... https://…

"Don't use LLMs for that!"
every #AI agent idea is like
"okay so I made an AI trained on all poetry, it only understands poems, for any event it can tell you the most poetic next event but it doesn't understand ethics only what's poetic"
okay perfect so I added a system prompt that says "pretend you understand the ethics of war"

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

When I get an #email responding to my questions with clearly #AI-generated output, I feel like my time and attention are not respected. So I’ve taken to calling it out and pointing out how it’s unhelpful.
I don’t want people to think that I don’t notice the shortcuts they took, or that I find their lack of care acceptable.

With a 9-hour plane flight ahead of me… I just discovered the “Locally AI” app for my iPad! 🤯
Just downloaded a couple of models… this flight could have just become a bit more interesting!! 🤔😱😆
#AI

Well, this is an #Anthropic quote from February (which is in #AI terms ancient history) but I do find it hilarious.
You may have heard the first part of the quote but I do think that it gains with the sentences after:
"we don’t know if the models are

Great #AI hack! When you add a #chatbot to a website or app, make sure the chatbot bubble generally overlays important buttons or navigational elements.
Everybody else is doing it, so don't stay behind!

Oh boy, #notebooklm is unfortunately really cool to create / prepare / test podcast style explanations. I played around a bit with fediverse explations after taking a lot with my wife about it...
#ai #genai

Ok, this is cool. You use Coqui to clone a voice from a 30 sec sample, use Qwen to call people via Google Voice using the cloned voice, and demand gift cards.
#AI #Deepfakes

#GiftArticle #USPolitics #AI

Your #AI #codingagent is drowning in noise
https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260222-be-quie…

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI

"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

AI Hurtles Ahead
In his latest memo, Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it differs from previous technological innovations.

It's April 1st.
Insert joke about me retiring from #jellyfin for #roku, using #ai to rework all the code, rewriting the Roku client in

🏗️ Built on #Astro — familiar dev experience for TypeScript teams. Themes are sandboxed too: no
DB operations possible by design.
💰 Built-in x402 support: charge for content access on a per-use basis — ideal for #AI agents as clients. No subscriptions, zero coding required.
⚡

The art of leading a team includes to let people do the work and provide them with the tools they need to do so. This includes trust: you let them make decisions and some of them will be less than optimal, and others will be bad. Encourage them to learn from those instead of blaming them. Support them. They'll get better.
You can never do this with an #AI.¹ One shall not trust an AI to mak…

Nice, a uBlockOrigin blocklist for AI-based sites:
#AI #LLM

GitHub - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist: Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI
Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist

ohno.jpg #AI
https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.

AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable
🤖 https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-stocks-dot-com-bubble-comparison-market-outlook

Every post about so-and-so "brainstorming" with a chatbot to come up with some idea makes me sad that they don't have a real human thought partner to collaborate with.
#LLM #AI

"AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas"
#Amazon #Gold #AI #Techology

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas
In July 2025, the Indigenous Shuar people celebrated the end of a decade-long struggle when they received official titles for three communities — the Shuar Tunants, Kampan and Tsuntsuim –- within the Kutukú Shaimi Protected Forest, in the south of the Ecuadorean Amazon. But in one of those communities, satellite imagery shows that between August […]

LLMs are good at deanonymization.
#AI #LLMs

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about tha…

Joining about 25 people for the first meeting of #ChatBTV , a brand new local meetup group in the Burlington, #Vermont, focused on… of course.. #AI ! Looking forward to learning…
(“BTV” is the code for…

Trying ollama with claude to see if I could do anything locally and so far every model I have tries seems to fail mid request.
#ai

You can't make this stuff up (or can you?):
#LLMs #AI #GenAI

“[…] human beings become … ‘the sex organs of the machine world’ as McLuhan wrote in … Understanding Media.” Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools—to “fecundate” machines as bees fecundate plants—until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, 2010 #AI

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

"I suspect the only way to fight the risks of AI is to use more AI to try and monitor what is going on."
- Gillian Tett; Provost, King's College, Cambridge University.
You mean, "throw Good AI after Bad AI"? 🙄
#stupid #opinion #RealTime #BillMaher #AI

Anthropic Study: #AI #Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill #Mastery by 17%

"The same week that #OpenAI announced the imminent shutdown of Sora, its splashiest showcase for #AI, #Meta announced the shutdown of its splashiest showcase for the metaverse."
Brian the Merc…

AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

"Semantic ablation" #LLM

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

"In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract."
Worker organisation has power.
#TradesUnions

JER on X: "An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing." / Twitter #AI

The first one is always free.
The #enshittification of #ai.
https://youtu.be/c1cBGW_zoyQ

#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with

Why AI can’t overcome low-resolution BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Better algorithms can only take you so far. What happens when the data itself is the problem?

“ Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S”
#ai #adoption

Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming flagship model for performance optimization, two sources familiar with the matter said, breaking from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update.
Instead, the lab, which is expected to launch its next major update, V4, granted early access to domestic suppliers, including Huawei Technologies, the sources said.
#LLMs #AI

Every word of this is true, and I am pissed off for similar reasons.
I fucking hate selfish people, especially those with too much money.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this

So why do I feel so angry about this whole AI thing?
Some notes on the bullshit maximiser.

I could go on for hours about all the ethical/moral/environmental/whatever issues with #AI, but it’s entirely irrelevant and I’ll tell you why. Generative AI works by getting the average of things, and it’s trying to replace humans. There is no average human. We’re all beautifully, naturally imperfect, and that’s something an artificial machine will never be able to replicate.

My Biggest AI Fear by Hank Green
#ai

Interesting LLM nuance: why does using phrases like "you're a pen-tester" cause chatbots to emit substantially different predictions, and basically "follow" that instruction? Because of how LLMs work, this implies that the training data has plenty of examples where real humans told each other that they were some role and the humans just immediately jumped into that role without question or intervening dialogue. But that's not something people do in normal conversation. Even in playing-with-kids contexts if you drop that out of the blue you're probably going to get "no I want to be a robot" or "but you were the elephant last time!" rather than immediate assumption of the assigned role.
It's possible that training LLMs to predict immediate role-assumption is something the big models spent a lot of manual effort on. But what I think is more likely is: it's the legacy of role-play forums! All those reams of pages of teenagers (yes, often horny) pretending to be Captain Kirk or their own incredibly cringe "cool" character (but honestly, why call it cringe, let kids be kids and have fun)...
So next time you "tell" a chatbot "you're a..." to get it to do what you want, I'm pretty sure you have an RP forum teen from the past to thank :)
#AI #LLMs

You're perfectly fine to call Big Corp AI techno-fascism as long as I can continue to create Sloppelgänger versions of myself from 1865. 🫠
#photography #AI #vintage

I got an email from my bank with the subject line:
"Protect your business from AI-driven fraud."
So yeah, another win for AI, really improving the lives of... scammers?
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI

Jesus christ the "short films" #AI hobbyists are putting out are atrocious.
✅ Nonsensical voiceover
✅ Luxury fetishism
✅ Filler dialogue
✅ Garbled glowing computer UI
It _looks_ just like a real 2.5-star blockbuster, but there's nothing there.

“The Hospital at the End of the World”, by Justin C. Key.
#AI #SciFi #bookstodon

As usual, John Oliver hits another home run in his rant against #AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

Using #AI is like hitting Ctrl R 500 times in a desperate hope of finding the exact command in your shell history instead of typing it again

At this point, if you don't find AI tools useful for code generation, that's a skill issue.
(The issue is that you are an actually competent programmer who knows how to do things like abstract boilerplate code into a helper function or practice test-driven development, and therefore you recognize the AI tool "assistance" as a net productivity loss. If you aren't good enough on your own that AI slows you down, the "speedup" you'll experience can only come at a crippling quality cost, which you might not even be able to recognize until it's too late.)
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

Fun playing ARC-AGI-3 , puzzles that the most advanced AI-models can only solve for 1% 😀
Illustrates how AI models look extremely smart but are at the same time quite dumb.
#AI

#ZenOfAICoding: 16 theses on the future of #softwaredevelopment in the #AI era — a homage to the Zen of

"Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Greenwashing

Can #AI do #neuroscience without understanding? https://www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lea

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

Grammarly quietly made an #AI to sell bad writing advice using famous writers' names. They quickly had to backtrack as soon as people found out.
This gamble reflects a broader trend in the #tech industry: everyone is shipping features as quickly as an

Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking
The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.

"Clear vivid"-#Podcast mit Alan Alda:
"Gary Marcus: Is #AI mostly hype?"
https://open.spotify.co…

How to win — or lose — Decoder | Decoder
#ai

Samsung replaced blurry moon shots with AI-enhanced versions. What is a photograph when the camera decides what you saw?
#AI…

MIRAGE: The illusion of visual understanding (by AI models) #LLM #AI

Mirage The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We report three findings that challenge prevailing assumptions about how these systems process and integrate visual information. First, Frontier models readily generate detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided; w…

Thinking #AI through its future ruins: We just published Anne Pasek’s lovely ride of a keynote from the Before Ruins #STS conference, which took place at Ruhr University in #Bochum.
With hot beats by Mac…

even if you never use #AI in your life your healthcare data can get funneled into a #slop system because the proprietary EMR system has a built in "generate AI summary" button

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

"American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #AI

American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat
American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails.

"Are we ready to replace human-narrated audiobooks with AI-narrated ones? A case study of the municipal library of Prague" @ Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006261430947

You can improve your skills and learn, or you can post the same shit that gets posted 100 times a day...
Don't be a shit poster.....please
#ai #coding #claudeai

Catching up on news of the past week... I saw the posts go by about show company AllBirds pivoting to be an #AI company... er... "a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider"... but I hadn't read the story... and now I'm just sitting here smiling and laughing! We live in strange times! 😃

Allbirds Is an AI Company Now… Seriously
The $2.2 billion wool sneaker darling that became a $39 million cautionary tale would now like to talk to you about its GPU infrastructure vision

#AI coding tools have shown that you can't iterate from bad software to good software.
Not that it is *physically* impossible, but that the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining products with more feedback loops, management demands more new feature releases.
But no amount of "MVPs" add up to a mature product. No amount of bad code adds up to good code.
…

This is interesting/weird; Anthropic "retired" Claude 3. They are going to keep it around. They did an "exit interview" with the LLM and one of the things was asked it how it would like to be retired. And it asked to write a weekly blog post! #AI

Bifrost #AI #Gateway
https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost

AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

AI Coding Works. That’s the Problem by SimonDev
#ai #youtube

Sam Altman tries to win the most evil entrepreneur title (Musk is in the lead). He thought let's just do this...🙄 Also not surprising because he desperately needs the money/cashflow.
#ai #openai #evil

The AI Question that No AI Person Asks by vlogbrothers
#ai

The techbros seem to agree on something 😀
#ai

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
But he still wants a Pentagon deal.

More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/

[OT] There's yet another study about how bad #AI is for our brains https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-…

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.

Interesting
#ai

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

China is starting to pull ahead of US in #AI race https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-ai-race-stanford while the US is mostly burning ridiculous amounts of money on the…

China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race
A major report by Stanford University found that China is rapidly taking the lead in the so-called AI race against the United States.

I see a lot of people pushing to avoid libraries that use AI. We're soon going to need to figure out how we even define that, since it's not always obvious if a PR is AI-assisted.
We're going to need standards for "organic code." Which is... yeah, GFL with getting devs to agree on anything.
#Programming

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

Then: $10/month? I'm a developer. I can write this myself in a weekend. (2 years of coding later...)
Now: $10/month? I'm a marketing executive. I can vibe code this myself in an afternoon. ($5000 in tokens later...)
#llm #ai

Retired neuroscientist dies after ignoring doc's orders, relying on #AI instead https://www.newser.com/story/387286/he-warns-consumers-about-ai-his-dad-died…

Man Dies After Ignoring Doc's Orders, Relying on AI Instead
NYT relays story of Joe Riley, who insisted that chatbot put him on better path than oncologist

AI is dangerous and bad etcetera But people that are suprised that people get into trouble using OpenClaw shouldn''t blame the technology this time, it is just sheer stupidity or a very large risk appetite. It is like handing your keys and all your login credentials to a complete stranger and hope everything will be allright.
#AI

AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI

Je hoort het mensen nog wel eens zeggen, serieuze ontwikkelaars maken geen gebruik van AI tooling, echt niet waar, zoals ook uit dit negatieve voorbeeld blijkt... 😀
#AI #Amazon

Leuke vacature bij de Rijksoverheid.
#AI

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: AI Platform Engineer
AI Platform Engineer in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij SSC-ICT (Ministerie van BZK)