Flutterby™! : Resisting Dehumanization

Lots of good stuff to think on in this: Simpson Center: Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender (YouTube video)

I've been trying to understand how to use the Gemini CLI to write non-trivial code. There's a lot of waiting for "Thinking..." for the better part of an hour for it to come back with something that... sometimes works? Maybe is good for fleshing out a very rough version of code, but it's clear that at some point I'm going to have to go back in and use specific language to actually get it right.

Which is reiterating my feeling that if we're using LLMs for fleshing out code, our real issue is that our environments and languages have failed us.

Meanwhile, for work, I'm also looking into the AI integration into Notion. Of course the first thing that Notion wants me to do is to install an app (hey, spyware!) that doesn't seem to actually have any features that you'd hope for from an app. No worries, telemetry is whatever, I'm glad that this thing can't go poking around in my filesystem.

At least not visibly.

But beyond the basic "Chatbot thinks I should be 'Settings', the App calls that 'Preferences'" language mismatch, it's giving me quite a bit of instructions that just don't work. And, I mean, hey, keeping documentation up with the app is always a challenge, but it really feels like someone has off-loaded the process that should be creating the documentation, to the chatbot.