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People tempted to buy that new iHome thing should pause and think about how bad Siri has always been.

You might as well take an old iPod and stick it to the wall. (Yes I said iPOD, not iPad)

"You ask the agent", you do? I would never ask an agent about a system at work. I see people doing this and they are getting very obvious, and bad results. I do see this as a detriment for junior devs though since they may need help. But I will never let my dev team off the hook for writing documentation. Although they may now feel using LLM is ok for that.

The biggest difference in experience with seniors is that we already know the standard patterns, I dont have to ask what the inside of a microservice looks like, or the inside of a react app. Or how event driven systems work.

Engineers should learn that stuff by doing. And reading the massive amount of (non-LLM) written documentation on the subject. Written by real people.

Obviously if you know someone with rare earth mines who will mine it for pennies compared to what you can you buy from them. I am not aware of any hidden story here. Yes rare earths are everywhere, yes it sucks separating them, yes China does it cheaper and we shut ours down and sold them off.

When someone says "Didnt lose its...", A mine that is shutdown is a loss, because its no longer financially viable to operate. So are we debating what "lose" means?

Open up any old idled steel plants lately?

Well add "Ledger" to the pile of crypto companies that are finished. Crypto is getting scary these days.

most worlds without humans that are habitable are more habitable than earth.

its the people that make it unsustainable

This sounds more like a trash pile than a source control system. Anthropic is spewing out code for codes sake. They cant possibly manage it, the more they generate the more they will realize they are just regurgitating training data for no real purpose that can serve anyone.

And for this they buy disk? Maybe this is irresponsible use of technology.

Rich Hickey's flair for words not withstanding, I believe he is right on this.

LLMs would be automation if they were deterministic. Since they are not, they are just sources of incorrect information that needs to be corrected by a human.

Ask an author if they'd like a job as a fact checker or a spell checker. While those are both skills, they are not skills many people aspire to, and they are not of higher order value. While people deal with incorrect information all day long and mispelled words without it disrupting their life a computer cannot do that same.

Pity for it.

Lenovo was selling AMD HX Pro with 96 GB DDR5 and 2TB of SSD end of last year 1600. Same model now 6300.

Update on the 1600 dollar laptop I bought 10 months ago. Now retails for 6,300. Fun times! Thanks!

I just found out my state is letting autonomous semi trucks drive on its highways. I think the years since we've seen teslas kill entire families have been rare but have happened will pale in comparison to what these trucks will do to us.

I feel like given the danger these vehicles represent that their location should be published publicly so that humans can avoid the highway when they are near and possibly plan alternative routes.

Also, I believe that part of the "plan" is to eventually once the technology hits it limit of effectiveness (cant get any better but is still deadly), flood the highways with enough of them and autonomous cars to scare humans off the roads. There will be a tipping point where humans wont feel safe driving on the roads with these vehicles in large enough numbers (because they arent).

At that point we will be paying taxes for robot highways, and to fund liability protections for tech companies.

Unfortunately, this involves a massive degree of trust to believe. And I simply dont believe that there's regulation and enforcement of any of this.

Why would anyone believe that these "forbidden things" are actually prevented? There is no evidence besides occasional anecdotal outings of police doing searches that the only get caught doing after way long after.

So they can use words like "strict" all they want. The system doesnt work that way and neither do the people operating it. Just lipservice.

One of the biggest benefits of not engaging with LLMs or any of this nonsense is you dont have to care about all these "self made" problems of the LLM-gliteratti.

Cheers!

Im at a loss as to what I or anyone else would actually use this for. But it is slightly creepy. Ill give it that.

Here we go again, why dont we try this again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta

QR codes will not likely be used to their potential. They are being used as 1D bar codes. I have seen products with several QR codes all over different parts and in the manuals. Usually if you scan them going to a useless homepage or a manual that does not specifically refer to the thing being scanned without an exhaustive search.

Remember the most important fact about these codes: Nobody cares.

Kagi subscriber here. I think mature technologists should stop supporting proprietary browser technology workarounds, and I personally wont support them although I like the spirit of what Kagi tried to do with Orion on Mac OS.

We dont need ad blockers. We need advertiserproof/trackingproof browsers. Like we have waterproof shoes and coats and hats. We could also use some nicer browsers in terms of features.

But what folks who really care about these details should do is simply de-apple, and de-google (and obviously de-windows!). That will get you much further than using a particular browser, but a good browser helps.

LLMs do not qualify as "frontier AI". They dont even qualify as AI.

When the light went on I pulled everything down from GH and all my private repos (80 or so) off bitbucket. I quit social media way long ago so nothing there. I refuse to let platforms train on my code. Since I could see the writing on the wall, I jumped off MacOS and installed linux on everything I own including macbooks although they have been replaced now with non apple hardware now. The few services that I have online refuse connections from data centers and sketchy user agents.

When LLMs are done killing the Internet (and they will), I wont lament it, Ill say good riddance. There was a time that search worked, that time is long gone. Most web "technology" is really garbage.

The age of extraction, tracking, training and enshittification of everything has arrived. Why stay? Also once the lights are turned off I dont think the Internet will be reinvented, I think it will just start to look more and more like the dark web and become a fully bad place to connect your computer.

Its inspiring to see folks putting effort into verbalizing the conflicts and unexpected side effects of working with LLMs. Our feelings really do matter at the end of the day.

But I dont know if they matter to the employers who can only see LLMs as "free milk", and developers as the "milking machine".

There is a personal computing revolution already happening...Its called you wont have one if you can even afford one.

Installing linux on old hw is helpful. I got lucky and hoarded a few hundred GB of RAM before prices went up.

The war on general purpose computing is ramping up. They are coming for your computer....get ready.

Missing from the story as usual is any notion of how this will ever be prevented again or even if there are a thousand other people doing the same thing on a smaller or similar scale.

Dots....They are coming for your computer...get ready.

I think there's suppose to be a feel good in here, but it feels like another race to the bottom. Power companies dont invest their profits they take them and then when the grid becomes unreliable put it on the customers with interesting excuses and eco-fashionable handouts to help the pill go down.

The LLM will take a statistical path to reply and will not refuse to do so under any circumstances except where its been coded to do so.

Your examples are contrived and will not be borne out in any significant way. Inaccuracies are usually not simply made up claims they are false information based on statistical paths to misleading results or which elude the current context. LLMS dont understand the word dont. LLMS dont understand the meaning of any words.

Neither you, nor aristotle nor god will ever make an LLM return the truth or correct results via prompting.

I have been seeing alot of this finger pointing discussion in relation to gambling platforms. If you spend large amount of money at many types of businesses you will be "promoted to"... "VIP".

I really don't see an issue with this. People behind this are generally people who are making cases against legalized gambling by pointing to people they view as irresponsible.

They are cut from the same cloth of those that claim facebooks web pages are "addictive". I dare an html page to addict me.

Hi, am I crazy or...whatever happened to doing schema migrations on a hot replica and then cutover production over to it?

(Note Im not a DBA nor is this ever my actual problem)

This isnt wierd. Its disturbing. I believe that the tech industry is geniunely trying to scare and disorient the public into thinking they are the only thing standing between them and some evil AI overlord which is obviously just the tech industry itself and a pile of poor trained LLMs.

I believe this "fear" factor they are driving they believe will increase their credibility when they call LLMs AI and is a con towards convincing everyone they have reached AGI. Its definitely marketing preparation so that when they do claim AGI we will believe it without question. (or else!)

If these folks didnt have so much money it would be something to laught at, but its now becoming geniunely disturbing and Im starting to think that the folks running these shops are probably flirting with or experiencing extended mental illness.

I would feel sorry for them if I cared. I dont care. The tech industry is a joke and we are all going to be ashamed to be a part of it by the time this is over. Shut it down.