Clojurians Log v2
ai-skeptics 2026-10-30
Very selfish of you to use a sliver of the resource that me and my buddies are holding hostage
It’s very selfish of him to hoard all that gasoline/those batteries in his car instead of going by bus. The floors in his house are not utilized as efficiently as if they were turned into communal living quarters. Sam Altman may be… (pause for gasps) a communist.
Not at all! He doesn't care about community, not one bit, I'm sure he's onboard with wiping out most of mankind if it means saving the species long term, like the other nutjubs of EAs.
The games he played last year directly led to Micron shutting down Crucial to focus on enterprise memory. Then OpenAI backed out of their commitments when the stargate DC plans fell apart. My guy is the reason consumer DRAM is so expensive right now.
I'm sure we can cook up a peer to peer protocol of some sort if we wanted to share our idle local models.
It's crazy how great I feel after a solid session of coding at work, after having spent about six months in vibecoding hell. I really had to learn the hard way that this is not good for my mental health.
Had an interview with a company this week with massive dev teams all fully invested in this way of working. Plenty of highly competent seniors there no doubt, but it was all "MCP this, harness that", in addition to "we are looking to automate as much as possible". I don't think I can imagine how miserable it would be to work in such an environment. I also can't imagine the amount of code they are pumping out each day.
I somehow still can code by hand, with some minimal AI assistance. Honestly, this thing dumbs down people - we have a lot of data consistency problems in our app, mostly caused by the vibe-coding mess we are, and people are doubling down on AI. It's like you're driving, and see a "bridge out" warning, and instead of breaking you accelerate, in the hopes you can jump the abyss
Yeah. It's something that has to stop at some point.
There will be a "find-out" phase in the near future. It has always been that way. This too shall pass.
I agree, it's just that... sometimes I hate the "hype-driven development" that permeates software development NoSQL, "Agile", React, Microservices, Kubernetes, SPA, "Cloud Native", Blockchain, AI... it feels there's always the "new tech" that is used everywhere and makes everything harder to evolve
Wasn't clojure one of those hypes too? At least for a short moment^^ On a more serious note: what you describe may not even be exclusive to software development. I suspect that pretty much everything that you let sales people touch is at risk here
I've seen similar hype cycles in chemical engineering for example
The entire world seems to be revolving about "speed" and "being fast". This is not exclusive to software development indeed.
Yes, I was talking with my therapist about that, and it does seem to be the case. She mentioned that there are some people that don't want to wait for the clinical studies to see if they have some mental problem, and instead are relying on LLMs to "self-diagnose"
I'm at an AI obsessed company and it’s all about speed. People bragging about letting the LLM build stuff over night. Waking up to AI slop code reviews was a real low point. I ended up stumbling onto a system that runs all PRs through Pocock’s review thing + clj-nrepl-eval to test that code actually does what it’s meant to. All the tests are written in various Clojure dialects (non-Clojure company) and it finds so many bugs. Not saying my system is good btw - just highlights the crap being generated by Claude and the fact that people forgot to spec properly and to QA their stuff. I find the strongest devs where I work are generating a ton of code with sometimes serious issues. The weaker ones are creating all sorts of problems with code that looks ok at a glance but is totally the wrong thing. I'm enjoying keeping my token count up by having it write loads of Clojure. The time I’ve freed up is back to me and Emacs.
> Wasn't clojure one of those hypes too? At least for a short moment^^ Even "Uncle" Bob Martin who now brags about not reading code anymore was a Clojure fan for a hot minute. Consulting isn't going to sell itself!
@paul Is Martin actually selling courses/talks for AI? I wouldn't think that the cranky guy known for hawking dogmatic SOLID would fare well with AI consulting.
Curiosity killed the cat. Yeah. His courses are on AI now. He talks about using grokbots. Whatever that is
> ”hype-driven development” I think it’s very illustrative of the problems of software as an industry that it’s regularly captured by hype in this way. In a way our culture has seen software as magic that can fix all problems if we just believe in it enough and the moneybag holding people have noticed that this hope can be speculated on. It’s as if some part of the market is always chasing the next high of make-believe scifi tech that will magically transform everything.
I honestly think these people need some mental disorder named after them. Honestly - I can't imagine someone this disconnected from reality
Friend of mine that shall remain anonymous to protect the guilty: > Sam Altman has this unique gift of bringing out my inner 1990s coming-of-age-movie school bully. > Every time I see one of his takes I want to put on a letterman jacket and stuff him into a locker
An interesting video, maybe something will come out of it. > How To Pause AI For A Decade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hatcpyryY4E
From The New York Times column, "AI by numbers": • Workers who reported using A.I. as part of their jobs in 2023: 30 percent • Workers who reported using A.I. as part of their jobs in 2025: 76 percent • Estimated number of American workers exposed to A.I. who may need to transition to new jobs: 11 million • Amount of money Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are projected to spend on A.I. infrastructure this year: $700 billion • Amount of debt taken on by hyperscalers, chipmakers, neoclouds and other companies providing data centers and electricity for the A.I. build out: at least $3 trillion • Share of the world’s electricity that data centers currently consume: 1.5 percent • Share of the world’s electricity generated by Germany: 1.5 percent • Number of federal laws passed to regulate the development of A.I. technology: 0
For a deeper dive I recommend looking at Acemoglu vs The Economist. Geht started here: https://www.populismstudies.org/long-read-the-economist-versus-acemoglu-who-will-govern-the-next-world-order/ There is also a way more digestible article around, but it is in german and behind a paywall (but maybe that link works? I am not sure.) https://www.surplusmagazin.de/ki-economist-daron-acemoglu-kritik-demokratie-kampagne/
The german title roughly translates to "The buzzkill of the AI Hype"
Great article, thanks. Sadly couldn't find a non paywalled version of the German one
If you send me a DM I might help you with that