Rhaedas

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.”

Giraffe In Giraffe Out

Even the best models fine tuned for coding still have training that was based on both good and bad examples of programming from humans. And since it’s not AGI but using probability to generate the code, you’re going to get crap programming logic dependent on how often such things were used and suggested by humans to other humans. Googling for an answer on how to code something pulls up all sorts of answers from many sources, but reading through them, many are terrible. An LLM doesn’t know that, it just knows that humans liked some answers better than others, so GIGO.

Exactly. I get that there are still niches there that haven’t found their place here yet (be the change you want to see), but the only way I use Reddit now is through a search for things that find old information, since it is still a huge database of data (admittedly both good and bad).