Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

The #LLM approach to #AI is famous for needing vast amounts of data. Web programming is where LLMs excel because #bots can scrape all the websites out there, on top of ingesting all the code in #GitHub, etc. This vast pool of web code that has fed the big AI companies #models includes the 95% of startups that have failed, the supply chain #security nightmare that is #npm, and other gems. For other key dev platforms, there isn't this vast pool available to LLMs

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/16/0316228/wheres-the-evidence-that-ai-increases-productivity#comment_link_65991658

This reminds of me a bit about how email changed the work place. Yeah, I'm old, I worked in offices before we had email there. At first, email was a great improvement, but then came the tsunami of emails. It was so easy to send, people started sending far too many. Then everyone is drowning in it, wiping away most of the productivity gains.

In my minimal experience coding with #AI, it is clear to me that #botsitting work is really draining. There are so many other boring things I'd rather be doing, and they don't take much of my energy. So there does seem to be some small #productivity gains from using AI, it would end up making my quality of life worse. So I'll happily stick to getting in the zone, and just rolling with the boilerplate, refactoring chores, etc. until I see these tools make me happier

https://www.glean.com/work-ai-institute/reports/work-ai-index-report

@Gina Interesting read! Reports like this are always valuable to read to see the status quo of FOSS alternatives. They also highlight how important it is to represent the limitations and issues well, and to target users that we can actually serve right now. The users that try the alternatives and find it too hard are not likely to come back any time soon. So then we've lost them.

It turns out that Switzerland has the most F-Droid users per capita.

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So the #iPhone could be part of the solution for #ClimateChange! The wealthy of the world all get them, then have a fewer kids, and therefore fewer top #consumers in the world 😜 https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/09/study-links-iphone-rollout-to-decline-in-us-birth-rates/5253138

@gwagner that would be a nice economic analysis to see! What you describe is what I experienced in Tokyo. I think Vienna is also a good example. Tokyo vs NYC for a comparison of metacities and Vienna vs NYC for cities with a large portion of immigrants

oh funny someone published an academic research paper on this, the abstract sounds interesting: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34910

anyone know anything about it?

Could there be an "uncanny valley" of #AI #LLM #bullshit, where the error rates are low enough that humans get lazy and stop checking, which then leads to higher error rates than when humans did it without AI. Unfortunately, the current #BigTech business models prioritize #adoption and #engagement, so that will bias them towards ignoring this affect.

And what I find quite funny is that maybe a third of the phone call would be taken up with the standard Austrian pleasantries one must use, including a proper greeting and minimum two forms of goodbye 😉

Someone should do a quantitative #productivity analysis of #Debian's #workflow vs #Microsoft's for #Windows, or #Google's for #Android which both surely include #LLM #AI tricks that this point. I'd bet both those companies have done that internally. Any chance of leaks? 😉 So much of how Debian works is in public, so anyone could do some kind of analysis.

@neil I think that's definitely true in places where the real estate is not really regulated. In Vienna, its possible to get an unlimited lease that is pegged to inflation. That makes it a lot easier for small restaurants and cafes to survive. In NYC, I saw what you describe again and again: a few individuals renovate really rundown and empty places. The commercial street takes off again, then 10 years later, those small owners are put out of business by a 5x or 10x rent increase.