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The argument that resonated the most with me is that high-quality software needs living, breathing human developers with a mental model of how the software works. If you’re taking huge code blocks spit out by an AI and injecting it into your code unread (or largely unread, as the tool encourages you to do), then you’re effectively taking on a dependency – one that’s not understood by anyone on your team, of dubious quality, and frozen in time with no security updates or bugfixes ever.

—@nolan

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#AudioMo
On March 12, 2011, I was (virtually) introduced to a sugar glider through a Twitter follower. The “crabbing” sound it made got me thinking about how it would sound if a mutant sugar glider went on a destructive rampage. Since I didn’t have a mutant sugar glider on-hand, I did the next best thing, and this happened.
Meet Killer Sidney, the godzilla of formerly small creatures… or something like that.

—@BorrisInABox

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We shipped a bunch of improvements to https://fedidb.org!

⚡ Fresher stats
⚡ New graphs
⚡ Top 20 lists updated more often
⚡ 14d server graphs
⚡ Server instance.json
⚡ Stats updated more often
⚡ Sus subdomain detection
⚡ Improved mobile layout
⚡ New favicon

One more thing, we also improved the #threadiverse page https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Feedback + boosts appreciated! We have lot’s more in store, stay tuned 🚀

—@pixelfed

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Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subreddits as something not worth paying attention to resulted in many subreddits extending their protests indefinitely, Huffman apparently thought it would make […]