In my days, that was called micromanagement and was generally frowned upon.
"How dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?"
Slack CEO responded there that it was all a "billing mistake" and that they'll do better in the future and people are having none of it.
A rare orange site W, surprisingly heartwarming.
Was jumpscared on my YouTube recommendations page by a video from AI safety peddler Rob Miles and decided to take a look.
It talked about how it's almost impossible to detect whether a model was deliberately trained to output some "bad" output (like vulnerable code) for some specific set of inputs.
Pretty mild as cult stuff goes, mostly anthropomorphizing and referring to such LLM as a "sleeper agent". But maybe some of y'all will find it interesting.
It's two guys in London and one guy in San Francisco. In London there's presumably no OpenAI office, in SF, you can't be at two places at once and Anthropic has more true believers/does more critihype.
Unrelated, few minutes before writing this a bona-fide cultist replied to the programming dev post. Cultist with the handle "BussyGyatt @feddit.org". Truly the dumbest timeline.
Yeah, didn't even cross their mind that it could be wrong, because it looked ok.
That’s how you get a codebase that kinda sorta works in a way but is more evolved than designed, full of security holes, slow as heck, and disorganized to the point where it’s impossible to fix bugs, adds features, or understand what’s going on.
Well, one of the ways *glancing at the code I'm responsible for, sweating profusely*
Yay! *pats myself on the back*
Second quote is classic "you must be prompting it wrong". No, it can't be that people which find a tool less useful will be using it less often.
I've been recommended more Veo 3 fails by The Algorithm. Apparently even some promptfans think it sucks.
You WILL believe what happened when they tried to replicate Google's demos using the exact same prompts.
Then there is John Michael Greer...
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
A regular contributor at UnHerd...
I did not know that, and I hate that it doesn't surprise me. I tended to dismiss his peak oil doomerism as wishing for some imagined "harmony with nature". This doesn't help with that bias.
JFranek
joined 1 year ago
I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:
First the positives:
But, by his own admission:
Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.