The LLM crawlers are in the same league as spammers. They cause the service operators (and, by extension, the society) to devote massive resources to fight the scourge. Resources that could otherwise be used for something productive.

If making the source code public attracts this kind of parasites, I'm concerned about the long-term viability of open source.

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-users-data/

UOHH AUTISTIC FEMCEL BELLY AND CHEST EROTIC! :uoh: :uoh:

I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.

How did it all begin? 😅😅😅😅😅

#Gaslighting #AI - Really?
New blog post

@GossiTheDog Transcript:

AI usage is now a baseline expectation
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Tobias Lütke (Mar 20)
to Shopify

Team,

We are entering a time where more merchants and entrepreneurs could be created than any other in history. We often talk about bringing down the complexity curve to allow more people to choose this as a career. Each step along the entrepreneurial path is rife with decisions requiring skill, judgement and knowledge. Having AI alongside the journey and increasingly doing not just the consultation, but also doing the work for our merchants is a mindblowing step function change here.

Our task here at Shopify is to make our software unquestionably the best canvas on which to develop the best businesses of the future. We do this by keeping everyone cutting edge and bringing all the best tools to bear so our merchants can be more successful than they themselves used to imagine. For that we need to be absolutely ahead.

Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify

Maybe you are already there and find this memo puzzling. In that case you already use AI as a thought partner, deep researcher, critic, tutor, or pair programmer. I use it all the time, but even I feel I’m only scratching the surface. It’s the most rapid shift to how work is done that I’ve seen in my career and I’ve been pretty clear about my enthusiasm for it: you’ve heard me talk about AI in weekly videos, podcasts, town halls, and… Summit! Last summer I used agents to create my talk, and presented about that. I did this as a call to action and invitation for everyone to tinker with AI, to dispel any scepticism or confusion that this matters at all levels. Many of you took up the call, and all of us who did have been in absolute awe of the new capabilities and tools that AI can deliver to augment our skills, crafts, and fill in our gaps.

What we have learned so far is that using AI well is a skill that needs to be carefully learned by… using it a lot. It’s just too unlike everything else. The call to tinker with it was the right one, but it was too much of a suggestion. This is what I want to change here today. We also learned that, as opposed to most tools, AI acts as a multiplier. We are all lucky to work with some amazing colleagues, the kind who contribute 10X of what was previously thought possible. It’s my favorite thing about this company. And what’s even more amazing is that, for the first time, we see the tools become 10X themselves. I’ve seen many of these people approach implausible tasks, ones we wouldn’t even have chosen to tackle before, with reflexive and brilliant usage of AI to get 100X the work done.

In my On Leadership memo years ago, I described Shopify as a red queen race based on the Alice in Wonderland story—you have to keep running just to stay still. In a company growing 20-40% year over year, you must improve by at least that every year just to re-qualify. This goes for me as well as everyone else.

This sounds daunting, but given the nature of the tools, this doesn’t even sound terribly ambitious to me anymore. It’s also exactly the kind of environment that our top performers tell us they want. Learning together, surrounded by people who also are on their own journey of personal growth and working on worthwhile, meaningful, and hard problems is precisely the environment Shopify was created to provide. This represents both an opportunity and a requirement, deeply connected to our core values of Be a Constant Learner and Thrive on Change. These aren’t just aspirational phrases—they’re fundamental expectations that come with being a part of this world-class team. This is what we founders wanted, and this is what we built.

What This Means

1. Using AI effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify. It’s a tool of all trades today, and will only grow in importance. Frankly, I don’t think it’s feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applying AI in your craft; you are welcome to try, but I want to be honest I cannot see this working out today, and definitely not tomorrow. Stagnation is almost certain, and stagnation is slow-motion failure. If you’re not climbing, you’re sliding.

2. AI must be part of your GSD Prototype phase. The prototype phase of any GSD project should be dominated by AI exploration. Prototypes are meant for learning and creating information. AI dramatically accelerates this process. You can learn to produce something that other team mates can look at, use, and reason about in a fraction of the time it used to take.

3. We will add AI usage questions to our performance and peer review questionnaire. Learning to use AI well is an unobvious skill. My sense is that a lot of people give up after writing a prompt and not getting the ideal thing back immediately. Learning to prompt and load context is important, and getting peers to provide feedback on how this is going will be valuable.

4. Learning is self directed, but share what you learned. You have access to as much of the cutting edge AI tools as possible.There is chat.shopify.io, which we had for years now. Developers have proxy, Copilot, Cursor, Claude code, all pre-tooled and ready to go. We’ll learn and adapt together as a team. We’ll be sharing Ws (and Ls!) with each other as we experiment with new AI capabilities, and we’ll dedicate time to AI integration in our monthly business reviews and product development cycles. Slack and Vault have lots of places where people share prompts that they developed, like #revenue-ai-use-cases and #ai-centaurs.

5. Before asking for more Headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI. What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team? This question can lead to really fun discussions and projects.

6. Everyone means everyone. This applies to all of us—including me and the executive team.

The Path Forward

AI will totally change Shopify, our work, and the rest of our lives. We’re all in on this! I couldn’t think of a better place to be part of this truly unprecedented change than being here. You don’t just get a front-row seat, but are surrounded by a whole company learning and pushing things forward together.

Our job is to figure out what entrepreneurship looks like in a world where AI is universally available. And I intend for us to do the best possible job of that, and to do that I need everyone’s help. I already laid out a lot of the AI projects in the themes this year- our roadmap is clear, and our product will better match our mission. What we need to succeed is our collective sum total skill and ambition at applying our craft, multiplied by AI, for the benefit of our merchants.

-tobi

CEO Shopify

AI & art. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

Sigh, I think I might have to switch away from #VisusalStudioCode. Seems the only stuff they work on is #AI, to the detriment of everything else.

Shall I move back to #vim? Or rather #neovim. Do I still have the patience to configure that just the way I like it?
I could also try out that newfangled #zed editor that is getting all the hype these days.

One must-have feature is it having good vim keybindings though, I'm lost without them.

@GossiTheDog And one more protest against Microsoft being complicit in genocide
https://www.theverge.com/news/643777/microsoft-bill-gates-steve-ballmer-satya-nadella-employee-protestor

AI is becoming the support worker I always wanted. I spent years in disability employment, and getting the right human help was hard — but now, for $8/month, I use Guide from GuideInteraction.com. It reads the screen, explains layouts, buttons, and images. No drama, just help. This is only the beginning.

Tragic Girls #AI comic

So what happens when we all stop talking on Stack Overflow etc. and ChatGPT no longer has up to date access to live issues online because we're all asking ChatGPT for answers but its data is all out of date? What then huh? Huh?

#AI #GenerativeAI #artists

@sun posting from

"AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job."

Brilliant headline and opening line.

Source: AI can't do your job by @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/#government-by-spicy-autocomplete

With all the buzz around #AI #Scrapers and the rise of PoW-based solutions to block them, I wonder if a PoW spec could be the future of bot prevention?

Imagine a system where servers and user agents exchange challenges without relying on JavaScript (using e.g. HTTP headers). This way, non-JS users and text-based browsers stay functional, while bots are left out.

Would this be practical? What are the trade-offs? 🤔

"ChatGPT hallucinating a "fake murderer and imprisonment" while including "real elements" of the Norwegian man's "personal life" allegedly violated "data accuracy" requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

As Holmen saw it, his reputation remained on the line the longer the information was there, and—despite "tiny" disclaimers reminding ChatGPT users to verify outputs—there was no way to know how many people might have been exposed to the fake story and believed the information was accurate.

"Adding a disclaimer that you do not comply with the law does not make the law go away," [data protection lawyer, Kleanthi Sardeli] said. "AI companies can also not just 'hide' false information from users while they internally still process false information. AI companies should stop acting as if the GDPR does not apply to them, when it clearly does. If hallucinations are not stopped, people can easily suffer reputational damage."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/chatgpt-falsely-claimed-a-dad-murdered-his-own-kids-complaint-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned

Just as “the cloud” is actually “someone else’s computers”, #ai is actually “someone else’s biases.”

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Giving it this name is such a Malaysian thing to do 😆

Sohai - the nicest translation is "idiot", but it basically means "stupid c**t" in Cantonese 💩

https://worldofbuzz.com/msian-creates-chatbot-called-scammers-on-hold-ai-sohai-to-trick-scammers-waste-their-time

that's a fun juxtaposition
personally, I like to have some practice using judgement and actually understanding what I'm doing

I'm closing several accounts and deleting any customizations and personalizations like profile pics, etc.

I hate how every frikkin' service is hoovering up my data. I'm also closing accounts like LinkedIn that train their #AI on my data with poor visibility and limited controls.

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html