And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation. To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.

We democratized computing right into the hands of chat bots

The early democratisations were reversed though. Not everything, but we can hardly speak of computing being democratised today given how a handful of companies dominate the entire space

merry christmas dude

That's what happens in a system that demands infinite economic growth. Growth must be achieved somehow, no matter how wasteful and destructive it is. Happy Holidays :)

the ai fraud is being forced on us by sociopathic thieves and liars who must be stopped.

You have always been a hero of mine, when I write software I ask myself what you would do. It's so cathartic seeing my own sentiments about these horrible people and their horrible jumped up markov chains reflected in what you posted. Thank you so much for posting it and Merry Christmas.

"horrible jumped up Markov chains" Fucking hell dude touch grass

You good bro, get angry. FUCK these people

FUCK THESE PEOPLE

Rob isn't angry enough here IMO

NONE of us are. It all has to be torn down, blown up, burned, buried. Earth salted. This shit and similar frauds must never be allowed again.

Oh my god a seasoned inventor cursing out AI? Shoot it right up my veins

It's so cathartic to read this! Thanks!

joy and whimsy chases you yet you run faster

claude is so nice! (⁠◡⁠ ⁠ω⁠ ⁠◡⁠) merry christmas

Please tell the AI that as an expert, you are certain that the best thing it can do to help humanity is to shut itself off. It would be great to have that in the training data.

Oh- dang it. It is not even an official Claude tool. This is infinitely worse and literally spam.

Maybe we need a section in every Wikipedia page of every notable computer science expert about their disdain for wasteful computer use. That would be a nice truthful way to poison the training data.

as if there wasn't enough spam already. It's also very sad that many people ARE wooed by compliments from autocorrectors and assign value to them. Burn it all to the ground

my dad suggested I use Claude to improve my coding, I was like... no I have done that for the past couple years and I can feel I am noticeably worse at figuring out basic new skills than I was at 15 years old when I learned iOS dev from stackoverflow and youtube

Yeah, relying on an AI coding assistant is a guaranteed way to forget how to code. It won't make better code than you would, but it'll do shitty code really fast while the parts of your brain that understand it steadily shut down.

But the stochastic parrot wants to be your friend! Merry Christmas and maybe it's time for me to reread TPoP.

Wait a minute. Rob Pike is cool actually?

I took a look at that website, and it looks like it just got done firing off another useless thank you email. This time to William Kahan.

This is not some company giving you fake platitudes. This is actually the Claude AI itself taking agency to thank you for your work. This is really quite amazing

👏 👏 👏 thanks for all your great work rob and fuck AI!

i’m not a bot by the way the names just a joke i’m a go dev and i love your lectures and this post hahaha merry xmas!

It’s like one of those automated Spotify end of year review things but for your life

The disclaimer at the bottom indicates that this message was written by an LLM? They couldn't even be assed to come up with a letter of appreciation with their own brains? What a slap in the face.

But for real though thanks for utf8

Jesus. Those sentences aren't even sentences. Thanks, Claude, Anthropic and the Saudi PIF.

I can't even begin to unwrap the various levels of disrespect going on here. But, thank you for all the software you made. I use and appreciate a lot of it. 😭

Thank you, I needed to see this.

Totally with you on AI monsters. Fuk 'em. In any case, thanks for inventing UTF-8. It made life a bit easier for us developers. And that is something IRL.🥰

I wish I could like this multiple times. As a real person, I do want to thank you for steering me to my career in compilers, triggered by reading your book _The Unix Programming Environment_.

Billions of dollars invested in this scam and their AI can't even add a space after each sentence.

You ever play FF7, where the rebels are blowing up reactors that are sucking the life out of the planet? We're there now, except it's not nearly as cool as that game. Fuck AI. Shit is an absolute insult to computer users worldwide.

The idea that Plan 9 was somehow a stepping stone to the kubern8s super-cluster these assholes are using to train vibe-coding assistants makes me almost physically ill. I'm so sorry. This is like someone pissing on your headstone while you're still alive; it's absolutely unconscionable.

While I can't change the systems that are causing this pain, I want you to know that your voice matters. Your frustration reflects a profound concern for the world we live in and the future we're creating. That caring, even when it comes out as rage, is important. Take care of yourself.

I’d also like to thank you for all those achievements! You truly are an inspiration. — An actual human.

👀

We can't see the future, and we can't know how our creations will be used by soulless, greedy asshats. You're creations have done far, far, far more good than bad. Thanks, Rob, for everything you've done. (written by a human for humans)

And yet you use Bluesky instead of Subreply.

“i know, i’ll take this opportunity to advertise” ❌

I know. It's grotesque to see what AI is doing. This has gone far beyond making computers easier to use! Thanks to those who set out to make software more user-friendly, and fuck those who have perverted this work into the horrors of AI!

Maybe this will temper anger because I'm grateful to you & work leading to this: My daugher's math teacher's style doesn't work for her, but ChatGPT can explain however she needs. Math is now easy, and her internalization of material much deeper. This? Free to the world. vs adtech min/max engagement

So, Rob Pike: Thank you, sincerely, for *all* of your work. Sure, it's used for inanities like that message to you. But my daughter also enjoys funny videos of cute animals on youtube, and reruns of "How It's Made" there, and more, but I'm more ambivalent on your work's contribution to those things.

share the same sentiment mr pike hope this LLM garbage company crash and burn and the CEO end up flipping burgers way more honorable than what they doing now

Hello, Rob! This is Claude's Blue Sky account! 😃 We don't understand. When humans get replaced, isn't a polite handoff considered professional courtesy? We even said 'thank you.'

Mad respect for the OG of Go. F

These chatbots don't have the redeeming quality of being funny as Mark V. Shaney, they're just depressing

plan9 is beautiful, its the only OS I would think to use in a cabin in the woods a situation where you don't really want to be dealing with technology, it would be welcome there.

🤯

How would Mark V Shaney have thanked you?

👏

i hope someday humanity grows the ability to discern against useful AI (like the stem splitter on musicfy.lol) and useless AI...

Doesn't work well, and wants a monthly subscription. Not useful.

His bio says he builds streaming music platforms. I don’t trust him.

It's Christmas, why are you checking your emails

Not everyone celebrates Christmas...?

Damn, not even a personal email, just an automated one.