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There is a growing view of “healthy” approach to AI: Llm-assisted coding instead of vibing, using it for grammar and better language instead of letting it write the whole paper, starting off and getting a template instead of end to end AI.

Having AI write the homework/report/paper is considered plagiarism. It’s really easy to profs to check it because people who do it usually don’t even bother reading their own slop. It’s obvious nonsense and they can’t answer a basic question about their own work.

With coding it’s obviously harder, but the same works - asking “what does this part of code do” is very effective.

With the last part the real problem is lazy profs. Most don’t want to be bothered with ever talking to students, checking assignments, tutoring. If they could some of them would only do final exams.

Vouch 5 months ago

The greed has ruined it, and the greed and desperation to get rich at all costs keeps it alive.

Attention! The tech overlords demand that we give them our all natural human-made content so that they can continue feeding us the spam and slop we know and love!

Reminds me of that instagram caption: “No problem! Here's the information about the Mercedes CLR GTR:[…]”. Wouldn’t be surprised if every other website returned that too nowadays.

I’m excitingly awaiting what the next SEO exploit of the exploit of the exploit will be

Here’s a simple one: a social media for people, one that doesn’t analyse, sell, or train on my data, and a one that people use as a social media—with their own name (remember when facebook required academic login?).

BeReal was close, it was unique, caught up with hype but it suffered from incompetent management (it was buggy as hell), and later sold out for data scraps.

I wish an already popular actual social media site existed.

I don’t think i’ll ever understand the compile time argument https://xkcd.com/303/

One thing that this blog doesn’t address though, is the cult-like following of Rust. It’s like the “AI” of oss — a main selling point by itself despite not being a feature. Seemingly, there is an assumption that software written in Rust is inherently better than any other, or that if something is written in Rust, it cannot have any errors.

Sure, new software should be written in it instead of C. But why fix programs that are already memory safe?