2026-04-23T17:53:48Z https://yabu.me Robotistry https://yabu.me/npub1hlq9sje9ty5g4qhldjuhuqmxrpvtgmjll2jaa3x8hym39e2zq5fq0c8qx8 https://fediscience.org/system/accounts/avatars/116/273/813/905/610/513/original/604eda5588987815.jpg https://fediscience.org/system/accounts/avatars/116/273/813/905/610/513/original/604eda5588987815.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqqjl4fxp9s450vavcpsftqwncldhyc7vs0kdj2va7p90fhrh24lszyzluqkzty4vj3z5zlaktjlsrvcv93drwtla2thkyc7unwyh9ggz3yr53048 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0t4dgexz8vwkfdjmvnxtw2u2jgzx57jn2cgac39pz0wc4u5xzungyt4e9n'>nevent1q…4e9n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Re: the &#34;democratization&#34; argument.<br/><br/>I am not convinced this is a thing.<br/><br/>My ability to program has been impaired by long covid. I am occasionally able to sustain hand writing and debugging code for up to 15 minutes at a time, up to an hour a day, up to a few weeks.<br/><br/>There are lots of personal use programs I would like to create - games that don&#39;t further impair my cognitive capacity; a pacing assistant that can identify the features that my family uses to catch when I&#39;m overdoing it and let me know; something to track not only my symptom severity but exertion type and capacity without me having to do duration math in a spreadsheet.<br/><br/>But let&#39;s work through the practica scenario where I try to write something with the help of an LLM.<br/><br/>Most will skip decomposing their idea and developing a spec for what they want and assume that knowing it when they see it will be enough.<br/><br/>Let&#39;s say I use a free model to (slowly!) iteratively generate a program that does the thing.<br/><br/>My app breaks because &lt;software update&gt; and I have to buy an annual subscription to that service to fix it.<br/><br/>The free LLM adds a created-by hash to my app. 3 years later, new rule: &#34;You used the free app to build it? Our bad, you need to pay rent to let your app run.&#34;<br/><br/>Captured, not democratized. 2026-04-20T10:31:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0ahye6dkxesz5z8cxl0gdhnvynysa6w44h2qgqxtjhwu4qxdp5mqzyzluqkzty4vj3z5zlaktjlsrvcv93drwtla2thkyc7unwyh9ggz3yk6c9z2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdj84nztkkupct8ewzzfdtl89uztw6w4ymec6hmw6089jtrkm7zcgfhf56y'>nevent1q…f56y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is one of the things grade school should be *for* - ensuring adults have basic process knowledge across a range of disciplines. Cooking, woodworking, sewing and mending, visual art, dance, cleaning, music, sculpture, managing one&#39;s finances, gardening, household repair and maintenance, metalworking....<br/><br/>(I&#39;m still salty that as a girl, I had to take cooking and sewing and wasn&#39;t allowed to take woodworking and metalworking. I eventually learned woodworking, but metalworking seems so *cool*!) 2026-04-09T15:00:58Z