Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi@qoto.org

Please ChatGPT write me a post with a fake graph and making no argument on why something should continue to improve, yet believing it will https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/bet-on-growth

The Economist is a voice of reason while the hype on AI continues https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/05/07/your-job-is-probably-safe-from-artificial-intelligence?etear=nl_weekly_3&utm_source=pocket_mylist

Great parallels between Rotten Tomatoes (art) and the system of scholarly publishing (science). By day I work on turning the gatekeeping of science journals into a system where publishing science is in the hands of authors, reviews aren't binary, and there are multiple ways to discover and classify what's relevant and trustworthy for the reader. Imagine if movie critics could censor a movie from being watched! https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/31/16107948/rotten-tomatoes-score-get-their-ratings-top-critics-certified-fresh-aggregate-mean?utm_source=pocket_saves

My latest blog post: I just want to run a container https://www.giorgiosironi.com/2023/05/i-just-want-to-run-container.html

While I get into blogging again, my most recent series of articles is about the experience of my team in ensemble programming (aka mob programming). From metaphors to code ownership, observing team dynamics, and the remote working environment. https://www.giorgiosironi.com/search/label/mob%20programming

I deleted my Twitter account a few months ago after I couldn't bear it anymore to contribute useful content to the new dictator's pet project. According to the downloaded Twitter data package, I had tweeted 18K times over 14 years!

@freemo interesting idea. Long-form blogging is so 2010s, but I still find value in it and want to tie the two together more

Continuing the migration, just replaced my blog's link to my deleted Twitter account with a link to this Mastodon profile https://www.giorgiosironi.com/

I have nothing against Single Page Applications except they keep breaking "open in a new tab" or bookmarking functionality. Here's a good list of the hoops to jump through to properly specify what a user is seeing *in the URL*, like web pages do from 1989.
https://www.jacobparis.com/guides/url-as-state-management?utm_source=pocket_mylist

There's a lot of "commitment" on passkeys from tech companies for the medium-term future. I like the involvement of some hard to replicate factors - physical proximity or biometrics that don't leave your device - which shouldn't easily be exploitable by a scammer in another continent https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-long-passwords-thanks-for-all-phish.html?m=1&utm_source=pocket_mylist

Ubiquitous platforms that reach billions of people have lots of new emerging responsibilities. Software developers can't write tests about what happens when their code is used by real people, and I'd rather have them being aware of issues in society than the latest technology fad
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/apr/27/how-facebook-and-instagram-became-marketplaces-for-child-sex-trafficking

Yuval Noah Harari is both exaggerating and perfectly on point. AIs don't design better AIs as they can barely code by imitation. But simulated relationships and mass deployment of story generation to any bad actor is a threat to democracy; it doesn't take a lot to imagine the Cambridge Analytica of GPT models.
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation

"I am not afraid because GPT is too smart, I am afraid because GPT is too stupid" https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-and-irrational-exuberance

I've just seen a "As a developer, ..." user story written by ChatGPT and I can only tell you: welcome to a brave new world https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/as-a-developer-is-not-a-user-story/ #sarcasm