Lu Nelson
@lunelson.bsky.social
Staff FE SW Eng at alcemy GmbH, Berlin. 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇩🇪
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It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
August 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
I once worked in a React codebase where the tech lead insisted on a policy of memoization, such that everyone was obliged to either tediously walk through the dependencies of every single component, or just defensively memoize everything. It was ridiculous and nightmarish.
📚 Whenever I see useCallback, I wonder: why do we need it here? And a lot of the times, when I look deeper, I see that it actually doesn’t do anything. I think a lot of code-bases would be better of just not memoizing at all - and then let the compiler do it for you:
The Useless useCallback
Why most memoization is downright useless...
tkdodo.eu
August 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I once worked in a React codebase where the tech lead insisted on a policy of memoization, such that everyone was obliged to either tediously walk through the dependencies of every single component, or just defensively memoize everything. It was ridiculous and nightmarish.
Every time someone has asked me in the least year whether AI was going to take over all programming I’ve given some version of this argument. Now I can just link them to this 🙂.
Spoiler: no
blog.val.town/vibe-code
Spoiler: no
blog.val.town/vibe-code
Vibe code is legacy code
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
August 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Every time someone has asked me in the least year whether AI was going to take over all programming I’ve given some version of this argument. Now I can just link them to this 🙂.
Spoiler: no
blog.val.town/vibe-code
Spoiler: no
blog.val.town/vibe-code
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It turns out that "nobody" saw the Texas floods coming by design, this disaster has a culprit and their names are Donald Trump and Elon Musk. #3E #EndAutogenocide
July 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It turns out that "nobody" saw the Texas floods coming by design, this disaster has a culprit and their names are Donald Trump and Elon Musk. #3E #EndAutogenocide
I'm disappointed to find that Amazon does not seem to sell a razor-and-mirror kit for cutting lines of cocaine
June 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm disappointed to find that Amazon does not seem to sell a razor-and-mirror kit for cutting lines of cocaine
I interpret this as a metaphor for the moment when we wake up from the collective hallucination that the LOTR movies are good
June 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I interpret this as a metaphor for the moment when we wake up from the collective hallucination that the LOTR movies are good
I would like to have a Git platform that has not "merge requests" or "pull requests" but "bung requests"
—like, "I just want to bung in this bit of code"
—like, "I just want to bung in this bit of code"
June 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I would like to have a Git platform that has not "merge requests" or "pull requests" but "bung requests"
—like, "I just want to bung in this bit of code"
—like, "I just want to bung in this bit of code"
A clear reminder that commercial chat LLMs —IMO, ChatGPT above all— are trained and tuned to engage you and keep you talking. Whether they might actually give you useful output is entirely secondary!
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A clear reminder that commercial chat LLMs —IMO, ChatGPT above all— are trained and tuned to engage you and keep you talking. Whether they might actually give you useful output is entirely secondary!
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Accurate.
Actual programmers: 90% of my output is documenting stuff and reading other people's detailed thoughts about how stuff is supposed to work
These dipshits: database popular on stackoverflow child's face prominent nipples no bugs very fast
These dipshits: database popular on stackoverflow child's face prominent nipples no bugs very fast
June 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Accurate.
I reckon this has been happening in every industry associated with fun and “passion”—and will get even more hollowed out by AI. The next generation will need a different model of job satisfaction
This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.
June 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I reckon this has been happening in every industry associated with fun and “passion”—and will get even more hollowed out by AI. The next generation will need a different model of job satisfaction
Fascinating and quite convincing
alisoncrosthwait.substack.com/p/a-ketamine...
alisoncrosthwait.substack.com/p/a-ketamine...
A Ketamine Addict's Perspective On What Elon Musk Might Be Experiencing On Ketamine
TW: Suicide
alisoncrosthwait.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Fascinating and quite convincing
alisoncrosthwait.substack.com/p/a-ketamine...
alisoncrosthwait.substack.com/p/a-ketamine...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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It’s plain for all to see.
May 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s plain for all to see.
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Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
May 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
It feels entirely possible that this a strategy of plausible deniability, in the form of plausible stupidity
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It feels entirely possible that this a strategy of plausible deniability, in the form of plausible stupidity
Like that time when Canadian conservatives briefly renamed themselves the Canadian Reform Alliance Party (CRAP)
Inbox: Andrew Cuomo says he's creating a new party, Fight and Deliver, for those disaffected by the Democratic Party, plus Independents and Republicans. Is it "FAD" for short?
He still seeks the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor. The primary is in June.
He still seeks the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor. The primary is in June.
May 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Like that time when Canadian conservatives briefly renamed themselves the Canadian Reform Alliance Party (CRAP)
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A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
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Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration.
This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power.
It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.
This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power.
It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.
April 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration.
This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power.
It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.
This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power.
It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.
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Donald Trump said: " I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but they are here for the nation ...
From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour." JK it was Hitler
From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour." JK it was Hitler
April 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Donald Trump said: " I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but they are here for the nation ...
From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour." JK it was Hitler
From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour." JK it was Hitler
@t3.gg I'm curious whether you've considered offering data privacy guarantees as a premium feature on T3 Chat: AFAICT there are some inference providers that offer such guarantees, and to which you could ostensibly route requests?
April 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
@t3.gg I'm curious whether you've considered offering data privacy guarantees as a premium feature on T3 Chat: AFAICT there are some inference providers that offer such guarantees, and to which you could ostensibly route requests?
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Plato FTW: “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
April 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Plato FTW: “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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VS Code doesn’t support oklch() colors yet, but you can add support via this extension. It even includes a quick link to oklch.com.
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
April 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
VS Code doesn’t support oklch() colors yet, but you can add support via this extension. It even includes a quick link to oklch.com.
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.