<p>I resonate with this article a lot. I started creating programs simply for the joy of making things, and maybe out of a bit of intellectual curiosity.</p><p>A lot of people around me ask &quot;why make things people have done before,&quot; &quot;what&#39;s the point,&quot; and &quot;can you commercialize them?&quot; Of course, it will be a good thing if I can make something useful to others, but that&#39;s not why I am doing it.</p><p><a href="https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jsbarretto.com/blog/software-i</span><span class="invisible">s-joy/</span></a></p>

<p>The thing is, LLMs DON&#39;T ACTUALLY WORK for knowledge or computation</p><p>they provide outputs that *resemble* someone thinking about it</p><p>But don&#39;t actually bring reasoning to bear </p><p>any problems that require actual mental models of the world or a specific area of expertise fall apart at the first or second step</p>

<p>Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there&#39;s a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between &quot;useful&quot; and &quot;ethical&quot; and we&#39;re just arguing about the best setting</p><p>But the real problem is even dumber</p><p>-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes<br />-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes<br />-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers&#39; lives? Yup<br />-will it ruin countless organizations who think they&#39;re buying their way to cheap labor? That too</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Finally! I&#39;ve wondered why this hasn&#39;t happened before. Very good! Thanks!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> finally! Let&#39;s go valve!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span><br />Great news!</p>

<p>Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea</span><span class="invisible">m-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Steam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinuxGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proton</span></a></p>

<p>Challenge: Write Spade for an hour without nerd sniping myself into writing more tooling [Impossible]</p><p>This time, I didn&#39;t like the readability of nextpnr timing reports</p>

<p>All these &quot;omg there can be no new programming languages because the LLMs won&#39;t know how to generate code for them so modern &#39;programmers&#39; won&#39;t be able to use them&quot; takes make me want to spend more time hacking on my little compiler project for my little systems language.</p>