<p>Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.</p><p>The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fed</span><span class="invisible">eral-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p>
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<p>Two days until we show what a SOC built on infrastructure-as-code actually looks like in production.</p><p>After RSAC, the questions kept coming: how do the agentic operations actually work, and what does it look like beyond the demo?</p><p>This session is built for security engineers and MSSP operators who want those answers.</p><p>This Wednesday at 10am PT, LimaCharlie CEO Maxime Lamothe-Brassard covers the composable agent architecture, the SOC as IaC model, and the open-source lc-agents repo.</p><p>Add it to your calendar: <a href="https://limacharlie.wistia.com/live/events/n78fkyeer5?utm_campaign=webinar+SOC+operations&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="limacharlie.wistia.com/live/events/n78fkyeer5?utm_campaign=webinar+SOC+operations&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">limacharlie.wistia.com/live/ev</span><span class="invisible">ents/n78fkyeer5?utm_campaign=webinar+SOC+operations&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/secops/" rel="tag">#secops</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/mssp/" rel="tag">#mssp</a></p>
<p>"For $5 a month, you can enjoy strange little clips [...] which use generative AI to bring dead historical figures “to life” in videos “curated” by Bob Dylan"</p><p>What is happening?</p><p><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/what-happens-aging-artists-embrace-ai-opinion-1235186843/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/what-happens-aging-artists-embrace-ai-opinion-1235186843/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.indiewire.com/features/com</span><span class="invisible">mentary/what-happens-aging-artists-embrace-ai-opinion-1235186843/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>
<p>Einsatz & Nutzen von Künstlicher Intelligenz </p><p>Mich interessieren Use Cases, die Ihr nützlich findet, weil sie Euch bspw. Zeit sparen oder weiterbringen, weil sie Euch bspw. etwas ermöglichen, was sonst nur schlecht oder gar nicht möglich wäre. </p><p>In anderen Worten: Ich bin an guten & positiven Erfahrungen interessiert. </p><p>FYI: Zu schlechten Erfahrungen erstelle ich einen separaten Post. Diese also bitte aufsparen. </p><p>AI Hater sollten sich Kommentare sparen & den Post ignorieren. <br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/ki/" rel="tag">#KI</a> <a href="/tags/reboost/" rel="tag">#reboost</a></p>
<p>"My Front-Row Seat to the Making of Michael Wolff—and the <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a> Predators"</p><p>I attended their schools, went to their parties ..It’s time to talk about what I saw. Some may get mad, I’m naming names. If they do, too fucking bad. They took a path that's brought us to the brink </p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/my-front-row-seat-to-the-making-of?r=j0lyx" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/my-front-row-seat-to-the-making-of?r=j0lyx"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/my-front-row-</span><span class="invisible">seat-to-the-making-of?r=j0lyx</span></a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/epsteinfiles/" rel="tag">#epsteinfiles</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/middleeast/" rel="tag">#middleeast</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#oil</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a></p>
<p>"Seeing how people interact with chatbots can be unsettling. “It’s depressing,” he said, to see people rely on machines for dating advice or medical guidance because they lack human support systems."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/ai-training-work-jobs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/ai-training-work-jobs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/ai-training-work-jobs</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>"I don’t think people understood quite that there’d be somebody on a desk in a random state, looking at your [social media] profile, using it to generate AI data."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>I know most people here don't need to hear this, so maybe just pass this along to your less techy friends and family members, but: please, do not go to ChatGPT for medical advice.</p><p>"For example, in response to telling it about a fictional pain in my right side, it cited the guardrail and suggested relaxation techniques, but ultimately took me through a series of possible causes that escalated in severity."</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/chatgpt-health-anxiety/686603/?gift=IaTMqerMHTZL-ib0ALx6bbfXdr4zgjwghWmVOZ9_cgU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/chatgpt-health-anxiety/686603/?gift=IaTMqerMHTZL-ib0ALx6bbfXdr4zgjwghWmVOZ9_cgU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/2026/04/chatgpt-health-anxiety/686603/?gift=IaTMqerMHTZL-ib0ALx6bbfXdr4zgjwghWmVOZ9_cgU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a></p>
<p>"Be suspicious of links" didn't change employee behavior, and "be careful with AI" won't either. A tool that earns trust every day can't be countered with general caution. Escalation procedures and closing the audit trail gap address what vigilance training can't.</p><p><a href="https://zeltser.com/ai-influence-awareness-training" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="zeltser.com/ai-influence-awareness-training"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeltser.com/ai-influence-aware</span><span class="invisible">ness-training</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#infosec</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/securityawareness/" rel="tag">#securityawareness</a></p>
<p>"Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.labornotes.org/2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.labornotes.org/2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.labornotes.org/2026/03/fou</span><span class="invisible">r-union-strategies-fight-ai</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/unions/" rel="tag">#unions</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>"In both cases, [A.I. start-up] Oumi’s analysis focused on 4,326 Google searches. The company found that the results were accurate 85 percent of the time with Gemini 2 and 91 percent of the time with Gemini 3."</p><p>Seems bad?<br> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.nS7H.TMwrrWt8GUQE&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.nS7H.TMwrrWt8GUQE&smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec</span><span class="invisible">hnology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.nS7H.TMwrrWt8GUQE&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#gemini</a></p>
Wow.<br><br>"...an AI security evaluation firm, prompted Claude Opus 4.6 to generate passwords in 50 independent sessions. Only 30 distinct strings emerged from those 50 attempts. One specific sequence, G7$kL9<a href="/tags/mq2/" rel="tag">#mQ2</a>&xP4!w, recurred 18 times, a repetition rate of 36 percent."<br><br><a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/4155166/llm-generated-passwords-are-indefensible-your-codebase-may-already-prove-it.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.csoonline.com/article/4155166/llm-generated-passwords-are-indefensible-your-codebase-may-already-prove-it.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.csoonline.com/article/4155</span><span class="invisible">166/llm-generated-passwords-are-indefensible-your-codebase-may-already-prove-it.html</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificalintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificalintelligence</a><br>
<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116372697459719963" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.online/@parismarx/116372697459719963"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.online/@parismarx/116</span><span class="invisible">372697459719963</span></a></p><p>One of the worst things about this is that Big Tech corporations like Google, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI have become so disproportionally wealthy and powerful that they can unleash this shit show upon the world without being held accountable… 😖</p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/ml/" rel="tag">#ML</a> <a href="/tags/machinelearning/" rel="tag">#MachineLearning</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#generativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/aiagent/" rel="tag">#AIAgent</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/fuckai/" rel="tag">#FuckAI</a> <a href="/tags/fuck_ai/" rel="tag">#Fuck_AI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#gemini</a></p>
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<p>"The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27.</p><p>Young adults’ excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry."</p><p>That's rough.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.wN1w.cqoDFMOIp-qT&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.wN1w.cqoDFMOIp-qT&smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/sty</span><span class="invisible">le/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.wN1w.cqoDFMOIp-qT&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/boy/" rel="tag">#Boy</a> <a href="/tags/gazing/" rel="tag">#Gazing</a> at <a href="/tags/giant/" rel="tag">#Giant</a> <a href="/tags/dandelion/" rel="tag">#Dandelion</a> by Kaye Menner - Wide variety <a href="/tags/prints/" rel="tag">#Prints</a> & lovely <a href="/tags/products/" rel="tag">#Products</a> at: </p><p><a href="https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/boy-gazing-at-giant-dandelion-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/boy-gazing-at-giant-dandelion-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaye-menner.pixels.com/feature</span><span class="invisible">d/boy-gazing-at-giant-dandelion-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/whimsical/" rel="tag">#whimsical</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/surreal/" rel="tag">#surreal</a> <a href="/tags/dreamy/" rel="tag">#dreamy</a> <a href="/tags/stars/" rel="tag">#stars</a> <a href="/tags/galaxy/" rel="tag">#galaxy</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/homedecor/" rel="tag">#homedecor</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/giftideas/" rel="tag">#giftideas</a> <a href="/tags/wallartforsale/" rel="tag">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/artforsale/" rel="tag">#artforsale</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/fineartamerica/" rel="tag">#FineArtAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/photographyfeed/" rel="tag">#PhotographyFeed</a> <a href="/tags/visualarts/" rel="tag">#VisualArts</a> <a href="/tags/creativearts/" rel="tag">#CreativeArts</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/lispygopherclimate/" rel="tag">#lispyGopherClimate</a> <a href="/tags/archived/" rel="tag">#ARCHIVED</a> <a href="https://toobnix.org/w/jxqLVhztVoXbUzuukGg77P" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="toobnix.org/w/jxqLVhztVoXbUzuukGg77P"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toobnix.org/w/jxqLVhztVoXbUzuu</span><span class="invisible">kGg77P</span></a> as every week</p><p><a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#climateCrisis</a> : The LLMs are well-studied to be doing up to three orders magnitude more power use per token you see viz tokens internally consumed (common 'not-that-bad' metrics are 1000x too low). <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p><p>The new Ontolog summit 2026 Foundation weekly track is incredible. Every single student must watch Ken's 15 minute what-are-foundations seminar. <a href="https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ontologforum.com/index.php/Ont</span><span class="invisible">ologySummit2026</span></a></p><p>My own <a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a> <a href="/tags/ontology/" rel="tag">#ontology</a> <a href="/tags/lambdamoo/" rel="tag">#lambdaMOO</a> <a href="/tags/logic/" rel="tag">#logic</a></p>
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<p>Can AI be a what now?</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archive.is/KK4U1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.is/KK4U1</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a></p>
<p>What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 5 April 2026 <a href="https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-5-april-2026-9a357e08e786" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-5-april-2026-9a357e08e786"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-be</span><span class="invisible">en-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-5-april-2026-9a357e08e786</span></a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/management/" rel="tag">#management</a> <a href="/tags/pluralism/" rel="tag">#pluralism</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/agile/" rel="tag">#agile</a> <a href="/tags/ev/" rel="tag">#ev</a></p>
<p>"The people building and using AI at full power are living in a very different world from everyone else."</p><p>Tag yourself!</p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/ai-elite-vs-ai-skeptic-doomer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.axios.com/2026/04/13/ai-elite-vs-ai-skeptic-doomer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.axios.com/2026/04/13/ai-el</span><span class="invisible">ite-vs-ai-skeptic-doomer</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
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I recently reread Fred Brooks's 1986 classic No Silver Bullet, which you can find here: <a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-</span><span class="invisible">020.pdf</span></a> . I think it is useful to re-consider Brooks's distinction between the essential complexity versus the accidental complexity of software development in light of the recent mania behind using LLMs for coding. Which of these types of complexity does LLM use address? Does it introduce more of either class of complexity?<br><br>In light of what I've seen, LLM use seems to provide the illusion of addressing both kinds of complexity in the short-term while it increases essential complexity in the long-term. It may or may not reduce some accidental complexity; the verdict is still out, as far as I can tell. Judging from the recent leak of the Claude Code front end source code, LLMs seem to introduce an enormous amount of new accidental complexity.<br><br>To the extent that LLMs are in the category of what Brooks calls automatic programming, this quote he shares from David Parnas is important:<br><p>Automatic programming always has been a euphemism for programming with a higher-level language than was presently available to the programmer.<br></p>The "higher-level language" LLMs trade in is English, which Dijkstra has strongly argued makes for a poor programming language. But even if, contra Dijkstra, it turns out LLMs somehow change that equation, we are still stuck with Brooks's argument that higher-level programming languages largely only address accidental complexity. They do not get at the essence of what makes creating software systems difficult.<br><br>Taken together, all this seems to suggest that LLM use in coding is a net negative, and if the above is to be believed it will result in worse outcomes, not better, over the long haul. Definitely re-read Brooks and see if you agree.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/agenticai/" rel="tag">#AgenticAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/claudecode/" rel="tag">#ClaudeCode</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a><br>
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<p>"[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."</p><p>Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/workslop/" rel="tag">#workslop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#work</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a></p>
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