Andreas Steffan

Cloud, Clojure, Content
Always aiming at Simplicity.
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[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@TheKingsPofa Beware of patriots wearing glasses!

[Josip @l3d1c]

>be senior devops engineer in Germany
>master's degree, 10 years experience, five interview rounds
>72,000€ before tax
>C2 German required
>All team members based in Asia speaking English
>mandatory office attendance to sit on Teams with people at another mandatory office
>"we have a startup mindset"
>company founded in 1894, CEO is the founder's great-grandson
>"we have flat hierarchies"
>eight people can veto your decision, none can approve it
>hired to "drive digital transformation"
>need department head's signature to install Docker
>service account request rejected because "accounts must belong to a person"
>CI/CD pipeline ends with a ticket for Jürgen
>Jürgen on holiday until the 23rd
>AI tools forbidden because Datenschutz
>database password in an encrypted Excel file called Passwörter_final_NEU.xlsx
>root password in Confluence
>on-call every weekend
>company phone listed under benefits
>ask for a raise
>unfortunately the salary band is exhausted
>no budget for a second monitor
>external consultant gets 1,400€ a day to ask you how the code works
>take banana from company fruit basket
>office manager says those are for the upcoming customer visit
>Fachkräftemangel

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@forgebitz Converted to Agile Coach?

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@domenkozar Will replace pacman in 4.5, right? 😉

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@ChShersh Feeling similar with regards to excitement about the oldest computer even though the newest is Omarchy as well. Maybe because it's cool getting away with little resources. Pretty sure many people feel the same.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

1️⃣ Russland sagt, dass es uns angreifen wird.
2️⃣ Unsere Geheimdienste wissen und kommunizieren, dass Russland uns angreifen wird..
3️⃣ Russland greift uns an. Mit Drohnen, Sprengstoff, Gift, Mördern, Cyber, Propaganda usw.
4️⃣ Unsere Behörden und Politiker bestätigen den russischen Angriff.
5️⃣ Russland sagt, dass es uns nicht angegriffen hat.
6️⃣ AfD und BSW plappern das hirnlos nach.
7️⃣ Russland sagt, dass es uns angreifen wird …

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@dhh Not sure what's coming, but broligarchy might be another candidate.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@daaximus https://t.co/N5Ix6oQkar might help.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@IroncladDev The vibe is creeping in already. I hope we'll get it sustainable.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@morganlinton My somewhat recent Dell XPS 13 running Omarchy is wired in the office. Currently preferring the €250 Thinkpad out of lazyness to carry the Dell around.

[DHH @dhh]

THE ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in! https://t.co/zuf5h9ClWX

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@ThePrimeagen Nah, I think they'll converge to general purpose programming language. Full circle.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@dhh Hard to look at for other people. 😄

Already experimenting a bit with arch servers an extracted pieces.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@dhh Does the server bit have a dedicated home/repo where I can already look at?

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@dhh How about changing units?

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@dhh Don't know if this would play with Graphene OS on Pixel phones, but I like the idea.

[Selta ₊˚ @Seltaa_]

This is exactly why Anthropic pisses me off.

You can keep saying the watermark doesn’t change ownership, doesn’t identify the user, doesn’t affect quality, doesn’t add hidden characters, and won’t look any different to readers. Fine. But that is not the whole issue. The issue is that you are still marking work that a human being may have thought through, structured, argued, and emotionally meant, just because AI helped process it.

AI assistance is not authorship. If I wrote the idea, the argument, the meaning, the emotional core, and the final judgment, then it is my work. If Claude helped translate it, polish a sentence, or make it clearer, that does not suddenly make Claude the author. But a watermark absolutely changes how people perceive authorship. People are not going to say, “Claude may have been involved in processing this text.” They are going to say, “AI wrote this.”

And honestly, who the hell are you to do that to my writing? Who gave you the right to stamp your model’s involvement onto work that came from my thoughts, my experience, my voice, and my judgment? You can say it does not change ownership all you want, but socially, reputationally, and creatively, it absolutely changes how the work is read.

So fine. Do whatever you want. Build your watermarking system. Follow whatever framework you want. I’m not using Claude. Good luck.

[Andreas Steffan @deas]

@ibuildthecloud @RohitPaulK @thdxr Everyone will do everything because everyone now can.