The reality is that it's both. LLMs (along with every tool from a hammer to GPS) shape the world instrumentally (that is, by being wielded by the user), but also turn around and shape us formally. Every tool goes into the ecology of media, reshaping reality around us, including our abilities, senses, and values.

Rich's definition of "tool" is something like Ivan Illich's "Tools for Conviviality." Convivial tools can be used with minimal loss of agency, within a healthy politically-defined society. Huahai's definition is more akin to McLuhan's idea of "media." This category covers pretty much every technical or technological system, and its use is necessarily systematic and risks the instrumentalization of the user himself.

I miss posts like this

While AI has made my life as a developer worse in many, many ways, I am conversely really glad the conversation has shifted past these types of tricks, framework wars, etc.

Forgejo is a fork of gitea.

Hence the question...

Oh look it's a Buzz clone

https://buzz.xyz/

I like it from trying it quickly, but is there any way to use it with a provider other than vercel?

This is so funny to read. I ended up creating a /cleanup-prose skill I run after every command

If you want to try something a little bit more off the beaten path, https://gitworkshop.dev/ is a code forge built on nostr

oh, thats an awesome idea!

xkcd 927 but instead of another standard, another vibe-coded discord clone.

I say this as someone building a discord clone (https://flotilla.social)