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There’s a tremendous amount of hype and hate around AI these days. Most techies seem to be on the hype side and most normies are on the hate side. Everybody has “good enough” reasons for their takes on this. Nobody is obviously wrong. I don’t think the technology is far enough along that we can say it is clearly a net negative, like cryptocurrency has turned out to be, but the concerns that it could go that way are reasonable and we should not leave the risk abatement to the tech industry that has shown so little concern for its effects on our society. ...

Look, I know what you’re thinking: “Another dev scratched their own itch and now they want to tell me about it.” Guilty. But hear me out, because this particular itch has probably been annoying you too, and the scratch is genuinely useful. The Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s the scenario that broke me: I push a PR, immediately run gh pr checks --watch, and… it bombs out with an error because GitHub Actions hasn’t queued anything yet. So I wait. I run it again. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. And when it finally does start showing me checks, I’m staring at a list of job names with no idea whether that 3m 52s I’ve been waiting is normal or a sign that something’s silently wedged. ...

Howdy friends! I’m happy to announce today that I am launching a rebuilt https://www.chicks.net/ . Hopefully you can already see the difference. It has been a long time This is the first redesign in a very long time. Most of the changes over the last decade have been minor. Going back further gets us before git to September 2004 in the wayback machine and we can see that the old design lasted for 20 years. ...