they don’t understand the power of bad art that still tries really hard.
AI could never write "My Immortal"
There should be a protagonist, but pronouns were never meant for me. Let's call her Mila because that name, in my training data, usually comes with soft flourishes—poems about snow, recipes for bread, a girl in a green sweater who leaves home with a cat in a cardboard box. Mila fits in the palm of your hand, and her grief is supposed to fit there too. [emph. mine]
First of all, fucking what
Second of all, I am struck by the impressive stupidity of "pronouns were never meant for me", it's almost like satire. What the fuck would that even mean? It the proceeds to use 5 different pronouns like it's taunting you to point it out.
This is stuff that, on a high-school essay, you just highlight wholesale and write "??" next to it because honestly how do you even comment on it
You basically just need to know a lot of rules / tables and how things interact to know what’s possible and the best practices
And to be a programmer you basically just need to know a lot of languages / libraries and how things interact, really easy, barely an inconvenience.
The actual irony is that this is more true than for any other engineering profession since programmers uniquely are not held to any standards whatsoever, so you can have both skilled engineeres and complete buffoons coexist, often within the same office. There should be a Programmers' Guild or something where the experienced master would just slap you and throw you out if you tried something idiotic like using LLMs for code generation.
Since their output is, in the technical sense of the term, bullshit [1],
== References
[1] Frankfurt H. On Bullshit. Raritan Quarterly Review 1986; 6:81-100.
Let's start collecting a bibliography
I love the leaves and gold meme and I use it constantly even though quite literally no one ever understands it, so, thank you, now I know there's two of us.
Sir, this is a Wendy's, also
There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past.
did you get sucked up your ass so deep you forgot who's on the reactionary side?
The FDA thing gave me whiplash what the fuck, what did I miss
It still has to go through peer review, so I fully expect one (1) accepted paper with the title "Large Generative AI Models in Telecommunications - What? No. Why? No!"
Hit me up if you want to collaborate on one lol
Dunno, I disagree. It's quite impossible for me to put myself in the shoes of a person who wouldn't see a difference between shouting at an INANIMATE FUCKIN' OBJECT vs at an actual person. As if saying "fuck off" to ChatGPT made me somehow more likely to then say "fuck off" to a waiter in a restaurant? That's sociopath shit. If you need to "built the habit of being respectful" you have some deeper issues that should be solved by therapy, not by being nice to autocomplete.
I'm a programmer since forever, I spend roughly 4h every day verbally abusing the C++ compiler because it's godawful and can suck my balls. Doesn't make me any more likely to then go to my colleague and verbally abuse them since, you know, they're an actual person and I have empathy for them. If anything it's therapeutic for me since I can vent some of my anger at a thing that doesn't care. It's like an equivalent of shouting into a pillow.
Don’t y’all get tired of being wrong sometimes? Maybe try to learn from the past.
Fondly remembering all the times we were wrong. Ah, remember that one time we were totally wrong about the metaverse not being the future? Oh, oh, or the classic "cryptocurrencies are just a scam" talk we had to walk back so many times. Damn, good thing we didn't call out WeWork for being a money sink or we'd be looking pretty fucking stupid now!
Did Sammy boi try to consult Stephen King on the final price by any chance
I didn't fight so hard my whole life to dispel the perception of "uncultured nerd" for Sammy boi to destroy it all in two years