@Poslovitch https://taggart-tech.com/not-a-calculator/

@jenniferplusplus I think you're describing a kind of love.

I've spent most of my adult life writing code—not because I had to, but because I love the process. And I've taught hundreds of students (thousands through courses) to love it too. There's a beauty in expressing human reasoning in code, just as there is in mathematics. You can put care into even the most mundane of tasks.

I know not everyone feels that way about it. I know for many, maybe most, it's just a job. It's just business.

But god damn, we created a wholly new form of expression here. I don't think it's that different from others. It just sells better, so "art" is hard to assign to it.

I still think it can be beautiful. But the beauty comes first from the creator's hand.

I don't want it to be easy. I agonize over the way I express the ideas to the machines so it does what I want, how I want it. I think about more than just whether it works. I'm writing for you, for future me, and for the developers I don't know yet who encounter the code later. I'm putting my biases and beliefs into the code. There are statements in there above and beyond the ones interpreted by the CPU.

I struggle to believe that doesn't matter.

"That's what they said about punch cards and assembly."

Maybe so! But you know, the thing I won't cede is the design, the architecture. Syntaxes and languages change—layers of abstraction above the machine to make the crafting easier pile up. But when you surrender the strategy of your creation to the model, you surrender something more profound that any given source file.

"You don't have to give that up!"

I don't. But the use of the easy machine is tempting in this way. It promises to do those things for you, and over time, most will let it.

Yes I am slower than the machines. Yes, I will still make mistakes.

But I love this process. I won't let you take it away from me. Code is my craft, and craft matters.

Over here writing code line by line, comment by comment. You know, like someone who "hates technology."

Hot diggity dog.

The briefing concludes that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with [International Human Rights Law]. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems, including where such systems are identified as exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of discrimination.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

I get to see this in action. Doctors want transcription and summarization services because of the challenges they face getting quickly familiar with a patient in a crazy short amount of time. They also want to automate notetaking for rounds, which can be chaotic. Problem is, these tools suck in chaotic situations, and even in relatively normal ones, hallucination abounds.

There will always be a claim of human review, but I know all too well that it's working against the current to have a human reviewer not assume the model got it right. What's more, those safeguards will eventually be seen as cost centers and redundancies—well, at least until the lawsuits.

One other thing. As noted above, these model-generated fields in charts are a) being used as training material for other models, and b) being used as input for other generative tools without human review. The potential for compound errors and model collapse is immense.

This entire report from the Ontario government on genAI systems is worth a read, but the review of healthcare scribe accuracy is pretty devastating, imo. This has to work for the tech to be worth anything. If the notes in the chart are wrong, the whole thing falls apart.

https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/specialreports/specialreports/en26/2026_AI_EN.pdf

If you think folks are going to let things like this get built in their communities and operate with impunity, you have another thing coming. I'm not saying they should be sabotaged; I'm saying they positively will be.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html

Played with Delta Chat. I like it conceptually, and I'm pretty impressed overall with the maturity. Just a couple of things missing for real Signal-alternative level for me:

• Rich text (markdown) support
• Calls in groups
• Moderation in Groups of any kind

Even so, I'm going to use Delta as a fallback in the event of a Signal outage.