Here's @sjwrenlewis pondering what might be the fallout from the bursting of the (putative) AI bubble... the key Q.is will Govt.s utilise the insights of Keynes or miss-respond as the post-keynesian 'consensus' might imply....

Interesting stuff & worth reading if you have the time...

#politics #Keynes #AI #FinancialCrisis

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/what-kind-of-crisis-would-bursting-ai.html

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is able to pull an argument together in **such** clever ways. Here, he argues that AI-produced code is a *liability*, not an asset.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#ai #writing #media #news #coding

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is able to pull an argument together in **such** clever ways. Here, he argues that AI-produced code is a *liability*, not an asset.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#ai #writing #media #news #coding

Heartbreaking update from #tailwindcss. They had to lay off 75% of their staff yesterday due to #AI driven losses.

I really don't see how the #OpenSource industry survives this. The days of making your source and your docs open to the public is quickly disappearing.

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

#CSS #PHP #WebDev #HTML #coding #programming #LLM

Heartbreaking update from #tailwindcss. They had to lay off 75% of their staff yesterday due to #AI driven losses.

I really don't see how the #OpenSource industry survives this. The days of making your source and your docs open to the public is quickly disappearing.

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

#CSS #PHP #WebDev #HTML #coding #programming #LLM

the most fucked-up #AI thing I can think of: search for jazz Music on YouTube. 99% of JAZZ (of all styles) you get there is AI slop 🤮🤮🤮

Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

Code is a liability, not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. It is a brittle machine that eventually "wears out" and needs a top-to-bottom refactoring to keep being in good working order.

It's code's capabilities that are assets.

«"Writing code" is about making code that runs well. "Software engineering" is about making code that fails well»

And then came #AI.

@pluralistic nails it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#CodeIsLaw #CS #code

Here's @sjwrenlewis pondering what might be the fallout from the bursting of the (putative) AI bubble... the key Q.is will Govt.s utilise the insights of Keynes or miss-respond as the post-keynesian 'consensus' might imply....

Interesting stuff & worth reading if you have the time...

#politics #Keynes #AI #FinancialCrisis

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/what-kind-of-crisis-would-bursting-ai.html

@GossiTheDog Only a #StableGenius or a #KeyboardWarrior living with his parents would buy an #AI #clanker spewing #slop. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@baldur In #science and at #universities , #AI stands for ‘ #ArtificialIdiots.’

#Clankers also works for the #slop machines.

Even on school playgrounds, “That’s AI!” means “That’s fake!”

The kids are alright.

@ChrisMayLA6
I haven't even found a use for the free services. Even less have I paid for any of them.

I had to explain to an enthusiast that archaeological data are extremely non-standardised in their format. If you pour them blindly into a machine learning app then it can't tell the information about prehistory apart from the information about the situation when a certain chunk of data was committed to paper. In like 1850, 1925 and 1998.

#archaeology #llm #aibubble #ai

Hmmm.... The FT is running a story that leading asset managers are either selling tech stocks in preparation for a 'reckoning' or shorting stocks on the assumption prices are about to drop.

How common such sentiment is seems hard to gauge, but its just one more sign of the shifts in investors' minds from opportunity to profit from rising prices, to risk management strategies to avoid losses from an abrupt 'correction'.

The impending crisis in AI-related investments looks ever closer!

#AI

Office 365 is truly a menace to human flourishing ( via @rwg )

https://fossacademic.tech//2026/01/06/oops-all-microslop.html

#ai #aislop #microslop

Office 365 is truly a menace to human flourishing ( via @rwg )

https://fossacademic.tech//2026/01/06/oops-all-microslop.html

#ai #aislop #microslop

Over the weekend, did you see the much-shared story on Reddit by a supposed whistleblower?

It started like this: "I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore."

Well, it was a fake.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

#journalism #AI

You gotta love #SlopAwards, where some company generates a top-whatever list using #AI, publishes it in the hope that the famous awardees repost it, and doesn’t even bother checking it.

@briankrebs

You gotta love #SlopAwards, where some company generates a top-whatever list using #AI, publishes it in the hope that the famous awardees repost it, and doesn’t even bother checking it.

@briankrebs