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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 13h
And the very act of writing the code itself is a way to move past a random person and become a real extension of *you* - a person who has the experience and the expertise to understand not just the syntax but the context. AI art isn't art - it's entertainment. The conscious part matters a lot to me.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 13h
I guess the assumption is that the internal implementation has been written by someone who knows what they're doing, verified through review by humans, and not vibe coded. Hence why I feel the calculator analogy is inaccurate - calculators don't have internal implementation mistakes baked in.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 15h
I think there's a vast difference between playing around and needing to build critical infrastructure. The wrangling is the point.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 15h
I'm genuinely interested, in good faith, about how you get students to understand the "why" without the "doing". Coding is an abstraction of a *creative* task that requires reasoning and a whole heap of context. How do you grow those when AI removes critical thinking skills?
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 22h
A very concise and useful summary
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 22h
Technical job interviews will hopefully become more of "The internet doesn't work, and here's some code that seems to be broken. Describe your pathway to a solution. Focus on the mental models and decision processes that you used".

Sadly, I think erosion of codebase quality will happen first.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 22h
Coding isn't just the act of typing code, but the learned experience of problem solving. IMO educators need to maintain that coding is learning how to enrich your portfolio of transferable skills. GenAI will only ever be a mid tier shortcut provider to people that already know what they're doing.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 1d
Only 30?
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d
How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 1d
Can we just take a minute to coin the term "slopbro"?
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 3d
40%. FORTY percent.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 5d
What we'd like to see is people protesting in their own homes, quietly, about once a year. You can register your interest to protest on our new government website, and a Protest Officer will be round to verify that you're protesting against something protestable.
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David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · 5d
just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day"

Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic
Laura Kuenssberg asks if it is a "dark step" to limit the fundamental right to protest? Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day". Under her new plans people will still have the right to protest, Mahmood adds.
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 7d
We can really see how he earned his Royal Society fellowship spot.
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COUPON CODE: RECESSION50 @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 7d
This guy is so fucking stupid, man. This is straight up caveman wisdom
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 9d
Software Carpentry Python Workshop – Join Us This November!

We’re excited to invite you to our free workshop, open to all!

📅 : 4-6 Nov
⏰ : 9 am-2 pm Eastern Time (UTC -5)
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This workshop is interactive and hands-on, providing basic lab skills for those in research computing roles.
Software Carpentry with Python: Coding for Beginners
This event is an example-driven three-day workshop on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d
LLMs cannot replace software engineers and never will, because software engineering is the process of understanding, maintaining and executing code to produce functional software.

LLMs do not “learn,” cannot “adapt,” and break down the moment things get complex.

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To Summarize: Coding LLMs Don’t Actually Replace Software Engineers, and Never Will, Due To The Inherent Unreliability Of Large Language Models In simple terms, LLMs are capable of writing code, but can’t do software engineering, because software engineering is the process of understanding, maintaining and executing code to produce functional software, and LLMs do not “learn,” cannot “adapt,” and (to paraphrase Brown), break down the more of your code and variables you ask them to look at at once. It’s very easy to believe that software engineering is just writing code, but the reality is that software engineers maintain software, which includes writing and analyzing code among a vast array of different personalities and programs and problems. Good software engineering harkens back to Brian Merchant’s interviews with translators — while some may believe that translators simply tell you what words mean, true translation is communicating the meaning of a sentence, which is cultural, contextual, regional, and personal, and often requires the exercise of creativity and novel thinking. My editor, Matthew Hughes, gave an example of this in his newsletter: I actually used to live in France (and the French-speaking part of Switzerland), and I can actually speak the language, and occasionally I’ll look up French translations to see how certain quirky bits of writing made the jump. Bits where there’s no immediately obvious or graceful way to do a literal translation. The Harry Potter series is a good example. In French, Hogwarts is Poudlard, which translates into “bacon lice.” Why did they go with that, instead of a literal translation of Hogwarts, which would be “Verruesporc?” No idea, but I’d assume it has something to do with the fact that Poudlard sounds a lot better than Verruesporc. Someone had to actually think about how to translate that one idea. They had to exercise creativity, which is something that an AI is inherently incapable of doing. Similarly, coding …
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d
“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”
AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
futurism.com
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 15d
"No single study on AI in the workplace is going to be definitive, but evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people’s work in the same way it’s affecting everything else: It is making it easier to output low-quality slop that other people then have to wade through."
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16d
Lmaooooooo
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
arstechnica.com
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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 20d
I'm looking for investors for my new startup, iAI
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 21d
Farage in a plane Melania, Donald, Sir Keir and Lady Victoria watch the fly past Farage crawling from the wreckage Melania, Donald, Sir Keir and Lady Victoria applaud
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 21d
Antifa terrorist.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 22d
@zdnet.bsky.social thanks for writing this!

> The authors urge educational leaders to act "to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes and false frames to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency."
www.zdnet.com/article/stud...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 21d
Despite the overwhelming evidence of Trump's criminality, his fascist policies, his support of Israel's genocide, his links with sex trafficking and his views that domestic violence isn't a crime, what were the standout looks of the state visit, BBC News?
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Software Sustainability Institute @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 22d
🔵 The Carpentries have recently published a new version of Building Better Research Software, a lesson in The Carpentries Incubator designed to serve as a “next steps” workshop after Software Carpentry. Find out more about it and how to get involved at: www.software.ac.uk/news/calling...
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 22d
Help us put the final touches to the future of Carpentries membership. Share your feedback on programs, services, and community in our survey today.

Learn more and take the survey 👉 www.carpentries.org/blog/2025/09...
We're Almost There: Share Your Input on The Carpentries' New Membership Model
The Carpentries is evolving — and so is our membership program. To remain a strong, sustainable community of practice, we are finalising a new model that reflects today’s realities, tomorrow’s opportu...
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