#ButlerianJihad

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽mdhughes@appdot.net
2026-02-18

Job email, for a company I would rather burn down than work for:
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What.

> The future is human plus AI.
We’ve entered a new era of software development where human and AI build together. This changes the skills you need as a developer, and the way companies engage, hire, and upskill technical talent. In short, this changes everything.
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WTF!

It literally tells you what to type?

#butlerianJihad

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2026-02-17

RE: kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan

And in early 90s when I had read Dune for the first time, I thought the idea of a #ButlerianJihad was a silly one.

I was wrong and it can't come fast enough.

Mistake not ...zeri@chaos.social
2026-02-12

@anderseknert ☝️SUFFER NOT THE THINKING MACHINE TO LIVE #ButlerianJihad!

Burni Walker :debian:Augur@metalhead.club
2026-02-12

I'm proud of my fellow citizens of #Vienna. Calling out the #aislop on billboards.
Hey, they are operating on the thought "For you, it'll suffice.", they think less of us (potential customers, the consumers of their slop) than they think of the dirt they drive their SUVs on.
#Boycott the AI garbage, let the #brands know, destroy/poison/resist the AI where you find it.
#butlerianjihad

A billboard of a yogurt brand, with some sloppy AI imagery, a graffiti across it reading "AI SLOP X("
Narrative Alchemy (they/them)narrative-alchemy.org@bsky.brid.gy
2026-02-04

Wow, I'm so shocked that when you let a computer think for you, you get worse at thinking. #ButlerianJihad

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/post/3mdzfukf23k2y

Paul SomeoneElsepkw@snac.d34d.net
2026-01-22
When I see ostensibly "smart" programmers talk positively
about using LLMs and agents, I think of:

"but it goes to eleven"

except it's not funny when they do it :(

also it makes me just say one more time:
"no gods no masters"

don't put people on a pedastal and they
won't dissapoint.

and then if they are not on a pedestal then why
listen?

#llm #agentic #butlerianjihad
Galactic Stonegalacticstone
2026-01-19

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

- Frank Herbert, Dune (1966)

2026-01-18

dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butleri... " The #ButlerianJihad, also known as the #GreatRevolt as well as commonly shortened to the Jihad, was the crusade against computers, #ThinkingMachines, and conscious robots that began in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. "

Butlerian Jihad

Paul SomeoneElsepkw@snac.d34d.net
2026-01-14
I am bigoted against LLMs.
I know it and it is how I deal with the hype.
Meaning I can't constantly be reasonable and
figure out what is meant and the context of LLMs
and what people think about them.
It drains my brain power from other things.

And I have continually found nothing compelling.

Worse, I have typically found very frustrating
examples of people using very strong but implied
assumptions and using logic that depends utterly
on using blinders and ignoring reason.

Until the hype dies, I am not interested in them.

I am still interested in the old AI stuff like
for example path finding, NNs, and markov chains.

#butlerianjihad #LLM #hype
Paul SomeoneElsepkw@snac.d34d.net
2026-01-12
Their are two hype trains.

One is the AI hype train.

The other is the anti-AI hype train.

If you think the latter is the problem and your focus ...
I can only conclude you are a shill, or maybe
have guilt for using something.

"all things being equal ..."

That's the thing braintrust, all things are not being equal.

#butlerianjihad
Paul SomeoneElsepkw@snac.d34d.net
2026-01-06
agents are only good because it exposed state machines
and cooperating systems to programmers that are taught
to ignore academics and theory as frivolous.

TLDR: the good part of "agents" is just state machines and
cooperating systems.

#butlerianjihad
2025-12-31

OK, who is trolling me on New Year's Eve? Truly, the fuckers never rest and sometimes I think they pick the times when system administrators are supposed to be away from their terminals on purpose. Fuck them with a trident.
#ButlerianJihad

web server accesses are shown to climb from an average two up to twenty
Paul SomeoneElsepkw@snac.d34d.net
2025-12-26
No gods no masters, but i like rob pike saying fuck you to AI.


#butlerianjihad

“It’s like you’re sitting inside the four walls of your home, and someone is victimizing your child in the next room.” Her voice falters. “And then you find out — it’s nobody?” #butlerianjihad

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/post/3maofyi4ocs2g

2025-12-22

What are they planning? Christmas scraping? #ButlerianJihad

Monday midnight Central European Time, load average jumps from 1 to 4 for an hour. And again at 3:00. And at 5:00, and more and more. Like a dragon stirring and preparing to spew fire.

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