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Or to validate the accuracy and efficacy of the actual code produced.

I mean, sure. But what an absolutely insane predicate. "Not reducing the quality of the output substantially" is (as an AI might say...) load bearing there.

Other problems include: Signal to Noise Ratio going through the roof.

More to it, the actual bloody companies are using them as a reference. Maybe it’s a 3d version, not an svg - but it clearly shows they’re on the radar of these companies.

Sure, but I do think there’s a pretty substantial difference between the two.

A parasocial relationship maintains a distance. You do not have 24/7 access to that person (in a dialogue sort of way.) And that influencer will have their own opinions and quirks.

The AI adapts to you. The AI is constantly there. It’s an order of magnitude worse in my opinion.

I was thinking about an experience I had recently, and how it relates to my feelings about AI... And it bummed me out a lot.

So I took over an open source project called Omnivore. It's a reading app in the vein of Pocket. The hosted version used pdf-lib to inject some functionality into the pdf viewer. Namely, highlighting, note taking, and storing location. pdf-lib is a licensed application, so when taking it to fully self-hosted this needed to change.

I migrated it over to pdf.js. And I went through the entire process. I added all the functionality bit by bit. It didn't take exceptionally long, maybe 1-3 days. But that process was really satisfying. I found a bug, fixed it, and then found a stackoverflow issue where someone was also experiencing the same issue and suggested the fix. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59151218/pdfjs-error-on-...

I'm pretty sure an ai could have done all of this. And therein lies my fear and my upset with AI. Not only would it have robbed me of that experience, but it shows that I have in a way been devalued. Because I do think that took a level of skill. And now that's gone...

It was their business, because they sold them....

It's funny to see this article (LLM Smells - https://shvbsle.in/various-llm-smells/) and then see that exact button type on this article.

My partner swears by it for the Data when scrobbing with Deezer (and formally spotify.) He pays for it.

It's become a cultural term to refer to someone suffering from delusions exacerbated by AI.

It's a little rhetorical device to draw in the reader, and personally I think it works quite well.

Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.

Legitimately. Especially if it's a book shop.

What an odd view of what I said.

I'm not asking for the people who hurt me to be hurt. I am asking that the responsibility of the actions that management layers took be considered in layoffs.

For instance - If overhiring happened, how is this not at least a little bit on the individual that approved of a hiring spree? Why is it that they should be able to yield a baton that hurts the workers they hired, without having to actual bare the brunt of the decisions?

If a business is still unprofitable, a business that touches so much of the internet like Cloudflare, then that is also a strategic failure and should be punished as such.

I feel like your tone in this response was also so condescending.

My stance is this: Fine, maybe you need to restructure for profit reasons. If that is the case, then it is also beholden upon the people doing the layoffs to understand their responsibility in that.

In an ideal world, a layoff of this scale would also require a shakeup of the management that let it get this bad in the first place.

What's more, the higher up the chain, the less onerous the layoff for the individual getting laid off.

I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds.

It works pretty well. But importantly, it's so cheap that I have never really seen it on my bill. An earlier prototype used OpenAI embeddings. I loaded 5$ API credits and after a year the credits expired.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/use-language-e...

https://github.com/aws-samples/rss-aggregator-using-cohere-e...

I did exactly this with Cohere language embeddings

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/use-language-e...

So we've really just settled on Vibe as the verb for AI then?

They made the same mistake a lot of people do, 8-bit meaning Retro style. But they're from the 16bit(?) GBA games.

Plusul and Minun sit next to each other in the Pokedex, 311 and 312. There's two 307s.

How is it that a model can produce what must be near 1:1 images ripped straight out of Pokemon Fire Red (The first ones) for profit and not be infringing copyright.

I know that's the game, but it seems CRAZY to me that they can do this.

Or they start limiting sales of Apple Hardware. Not something I expect to happen either.

Volume - things take time to review. If you’re inundated with so many PRs then it’s harder to curate in general

Time for a cross, like the New York Times bestsellers.

Yeah, sure, but you also have many more options. More intolerances. And opening a menu to look at some food takes a minute.

Maybe there's a scenario where that is useful. But again, I don't know why I'd want an AI to do this research for me. I hop on Skyscanner. I type my location, and where I'd like to go. It presents me with a list of options, and I can then use the filters to find times that work best for me.

I see a flight that isn't in my time frame, but is actually like 400 euros cheaper. And I decide in that moment that waking up at 5am is worth the savings.

I'd have not typed that into a prompt. I made that decision at the moment I saw the possibility. I didn't even know that it was an option prior to that moment.

Then I go look at hotels. I have a list of requirements, but I see that one of the hotels that I just glanced at has a really nice long pool, and the amenities look nicer from the images. I change my mind at that exact moment, I can walk 15 minutes more to the beach.

Now it should be even clearer why this is important for food.

I can't help but think building an "everything" app is so.. both unbelievably ambitious, and a folly. I am not personally convinced that people want all the things that this super app purports to do.

I am from a generation that still sits behind a desktop computer when making "big purchases." I can't even buy a flight on my phone. I am so much less likely to want to have an AI agent do that for me.

Then the idea that daily consumption of these products will drive people to use them more at work... I have a very different life outside of work. My use of AI outside of work is exceedingly different to what I use it for at work.

I sometimes feel wildly out of touch. But sometimes I view this as the VR moment. To me there are some things that I think may always be preferable to do outside of that ecosystem. And for me, a lot of tasks that 'agents' enable are small enough or important enough that I want to do them myself.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable allowing an agent to call me a taxi, or order food on my behalf. Because the convenience of asking for food isn't worth the chance it'll mess up, and opening an app and looking at a menu is simpler.

I also think we're coming to a moment where we can start identifying the markers of AI generated content on sight. And I think there's a growing animosity to it. I might be comfortable asking AI something, but when I am looking for or searching for other content, seeing AI content markers make me angry at this point.

To finish, I do just sort of straight up hate the idea that we're comparing this moment to the invention of electricity. It's on the face of it absurd.

"This is not just product simplification. It is a distribution and deployment strategy."

I am so sick of AI writing.

It baffles me when I see ostensibly smart people refusing to click shift. Especially programmers. I know you can do it! I've seen you use curly brackets!

The effects of climate change are just starting to happen. Ecosystems are dying. Very few "climate doomers" thought the world would be like the Day after Tomorrow.

The earth is becoming more hostile to it's inhabitants. There are famines caused by climate change. We will undoubtedly within the next 20 years see mass migration from the areas hardest hit.

Climate scientists, and climate reporting, often UNDERSTATED the worst of these effects.

I think it'd be worth stating what your definition of doomerism is. For me, seeing the increases in forest fires, seeing the sky reddened and the air quality diminish and floods and hurricanes increase... I don't think being able to buy a big mac doesn't make that any less pessimistic.

Wasn't the whole point of selling your right to refunds that the initial tariff was so onerous to businesses that they needed a cash injection to stay afloat.

Don't sell your right to your tariff refund is one of those things that sounds good in principle, but falls apart when you apply some sense to it.

I just want a colourful fun pro laptop :(