Eduardo Lávaque

'97. Full stack web engineer. I care about the quality of software.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

Move the needle.
Re-energize intentionally.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@valigo "Yeah but you don't need to compile all the time" average state of tech

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@naranciagaming documented fact that they made it worse, executive decision, so you search more, so you get more ads. Kagi is better but not as good as the good olde days

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@BlancheMinerva Not AGI, as it still is not comparable to a human

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@FizzineX Apparently it's fake. In any case, LLMs can't copy anything substantial.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@lisatomic5 Correct, college doesn't make sense unless it's STEM or passion. Computer Science is still valuable, if he makes it through without AI he will destroy any of his peers that made it through with AI.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@mitsuhiko Oh is that why I started to get a lot of German spam???? Why is my email on that too??

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@sainimatic Plenty of programmers care, we just are economically forced, often the case

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@BayouTheauxmist They never put themselves in their children's shoes. Imagine receiving notes from your dad, oh wait it's written by an LLM nvm dad I can't even hear your voice it's just Claude now

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@manaboomdev 日本人だと気が付かなかった、おめでとうございます！

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@the_transit_guy It wasn't AI, that's just what they're saying so their stocks go up. In fact they overhired some years ago and are now correcting.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@manaboomdev Good job! :D

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@kylekabasares Congratulations, you made it out of the delusion!

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@TylerGlaiel They, in fact, have no taste.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@Cutlaska I'm having the same conflict, although I don't yet have anything to announce.

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@PromptLLM And the AI companies actively leak information, so they're not helping their case lol

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

It was authorized. By vibe coders and vibe CEO, but authorized nonetheless.

[Reuters @Reuters]

AI model Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available US state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization, Anthropic said in a statement https://t.co/Ur6PzGVJJ8

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@TheMG3D Because they have "taste" and you don't, obviously.

[Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt]

❌ Local gym keep your name and phone number
✅ Giant companies train AI on all your personal data

Did I get it right? What's the point of GDPR again?

[Eduardo Lávaque @eduardo_lavaque]

@MatejKnopp Just block them all. If they fell for it once, they'll fall for the next one, not worth your time. Also probably a bot anyway.

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

A somewhat common but strange response to the consumer request for AI disclosures on products is to suggest that if you did this, you should have to disclose all sorts of other things (how many people worked on the product, what other software you used, what hardware it was made on, etc.)

I can understand that some people don't like the idea of having AI disclosures, so they immediately try to think of arguments against it. But respectfully, this one makes no sense.

Product labeling requirements are driven by demand, either from consumers or from competitors. There is no significant cross-section of the public asking to know if a game was made on machines with AMD or Intel hardware. There is no significant cross-section of the industry demanding that their competitors list whether or not they used Adobe Premier.

Product labeling is not about giving you a complete set of information about how a product was made. It's about giving the consumer information that a significant number of them might want to know before making a purchase. Which ones of these get codified can be driven by consumer demand, competitor demand, or - most commonly - a combination of the two.

This is not weird. It's good, actually.

And it's especially good if an industry takes proactive steps to voluntarily label their products accurately, because then they avoid the inevitable alternative, which is that the consumer demand for the missing labeling produces a political movement which ends with mandatory labeling designed by a political body.