Rhaedas

Yes, and no. It’s not all fake, there’s stuff going on, it’s just not what they’re selling it to be, and highly pushed into places it needs to stay away from, for safety and for inability. My takeaway on him being surprised as how people aren’t impressed isn’t the LLM factor of what it can do (well or not), it’s that HE isn’t aware that other LLMs are doing better than Microsoft’s version. He really is deep if he doesn’t know what the competition has. That’s why there’s a lackluster interest (as well as burnout of AI “solutions” for every damn thing, often worse than just doing it like before).

My coworkers use Co-Pilot. When they have downtime, just for amusement, just to see how badly it mangles things it ought to be good at doing. Never mind the fringes where an LLM isn’t suited at all.

Wow, that’s one of those words/phrases that you can feel when you read it. SHIT

Feeding an input into an LLM is exactly the opposite of the rule of thumb of sanitizing your inputs. Might as well light the gasoline as you throw it.

Depends on the product. From an original AI research point of view this is what you want, a model that can realize it is missing information and deviates from giving a result. But once profit became involved, marketing requires a fully confident output to get everyone to buy in. So we get what we get and not something that’s more reliable.

Or the clock is now digital and no one understands what the numbers on the pole were for, but are scared to remove them in case it breaks things.

Got to keep the illusion that there is a healthy job market otherwise the statistics will crash and show reality.

But maybe not AI. AI goes off training of real photos and would have variation in the surfaces, while someone doing this in Blender would be lazy and use the same texturing for all.

Just put duplicate programs up in each, some scrolling to look busy, and one window to hide the Galaga game.

Status maybe. The guy with the two monitors is probably doing most of the heavy lifting, and his manager with just one screen in his office watching him remotely or behind his back. The guys with the laptops, they’re the engineers who tell everyone how the spreadsheet says everything is great while there’s actually a fire. Which is what the guy with the two screens is doing, trying to figure out how to put it out.

I already have that. It’s the old code, and I always find myself looking back to pull snippets because I don’t remember how my genius in the past did it. But that’s how you’re supposed to do it anyway, right? Why reinvent the wheel.

As a non-professional casual programmer I feel this. I can have moments in my life where I’m creating some incredible stuff for myself for work or things at home. Then there’s periods of inactivity where I don’t use the language. Go back later to add something, do something new, or fix a problem… and now I’m Googling again how the hell to do something that I used to know well. It’s like speaking languages, you have to keep up with it or the neurons lose their connections. Usually some of it comes back once I start digging in, but I hate having to relearning stuff. Getting older with memory lapses doesn’t help either.

“test”

“To moldy go…”

I have an idea how much energy is spent trying to replace older working systems with crap that doesn’t. We definitely are failing.

In the sense of the metaphor, I think any of those things would have knocked it down long ago. Which says something about the odd resilience of our real systems. Not to mean they’ll stay that way, it’s just surprising sometimes.

It’s off center, but still balanced because it hasn’t fallen. I think the point was a more accurate metaphor would be a wedge with a curve, so as it gets shoved in more (and clearly we’re not done shoving it in yet), things get far more tilted, until…

So we should display religious things of only the original occupiers of the land? I don’t think she’s going to be happy with the conclusion there.

I saw a question posted recently asking what age everyone was when they learned that they weren’t going to get any rewards for working extra hard. I guess in some work it’s harder to see than in others.

Oh wow, I didn’t think about how many r sounds. But then if you ask it how many ks are in knight, it should say none.

Simple defense: “I wasn’t encouraging anything, I was just informing them.”