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"Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering"

JFC... The world does not have enough psychiatrists to fix the current catastrophe.

At this point, we can safely start treating South Park as a documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2HxWrlqqE

We should allow it. I have around 15 computers across my home lab, desktop computer and laptop(excluding the toys like pi zeros). Letting him know that I'm not utilizing several hundred GBs of ram seems reasonable.

Though I have been critical of LLMs in general, I have to give them credit for being really good digging out stuff that me as a human would find tedious. As such, I have my own LOCAL clanker that I use for two things: as a rubber duck and dump an apk with apktool inside a locked up container and let it go nuts. I've done it on numerous popular apps and it has found countless hardcoded credentials and keys in them. Just about all apps really, so far I think there's only been one that hasn't had THIS particular problem(it did have countless others though).

My point is that their power comes from the data they already posses, which is likely not far off 100%, including personal and proprietary data.

> Their power is precisely in the users they have.

False. There is a brilliant quote from The Blacklist series: "every information is worth something to someone". Their strength comes from the fact that they convinced everyone to willingly let user-facing computers collect data, write and execute arbitrary code on people's computers with a simple "trust me bro". In other words they have near complete monopoly over the world's infrastructure.

Generally, I'm not and never was reliant on any of them to begin with. LLMs are just my rubber duck at best. That said, I never trusted OAI or Anthropic, let alone the absolute security hellhole those agents and harnesses are. With that in mind: everything local. Qwen 3.8 27B is phenomenal, and it runs on pretty much consumer hardware. There is a catch: my mistrust for the above mentioned and knowledge that the rug pull will inevitably happen made me buy an Asus GX10 a little after they came out - they were the cheapest by a country mile and overall 4000 bucks well spent there. For all I care, let OpenAI and Anthropic burn.

Anytime, depending on how much money it owes: if it owes a few million, it can't; if it owes a few billion, whenever it feels like it, commonly always.

> Second, AI can be a powerful lever for economic growth. As a general purpose technology, it has the potential to raise productivity across every sector of the economy. Productivity growth in advanced economies has stagnated in recent decades, partly for structural reasons and partly because new ideas seem to be harder to find. AI could reverse this trend.

Bloody hell!!!! Who comes up with such crap, seriously?

I never really figured that one out but I never really tried to be honest. Mostly because my motivation has always been to fix my problem, I never really cared who else was using it or not. I've only received a handful of PR's over the years across all my projects. I suspect I'll never get any new ones since I got fed up with github and moved to codeberg, which (to my delight) is like kryptonite for sloppers.

On the contrary: I've blocked all of those sites for a reason. And I had, not coffee or lunch, but dinner with a now former openai employee who left because of everything I said: AI is a religious cult lead by a bunch of incompetent griefters.

I'd have to unblock linkedin and twitter from my Pihole and register(which I don't intend to do for the sake of my mental health) but literally anyone listed as an employee, just look them up yourself: All day long it's "the new model is so powerful, we must never release it", "we will all die in 6 months", "this is the end of humanity" and so on for weeks before they release the next slop-crapper and bump up the prices. It's literally like every Musk appearance on a new Tesla 10 years ago, or Apple or Microsoft or whatever. The whole AI fanaticism is exactly that: religious fanaticism with a new skin pack.

No, because anthropic, google, nvidia, openai, etc. employees are publicly acting like lunatics. In fact I know lunatics that act way more sane than them.

In all fairness, I wouldn't be surprised if the claims are true, given all the psychosis and cult-like behavior within all slop corps. It honestly feels like the Virgin Mary episode of South Park.

Yup. My first "we are cooked" moment was at an old job just a few months after chatgpt was released and during an OKR a manager proudly opened chatgpt and prompted "how do we reduce the critical bugs in our product by X% over the next quarter", chatgpt spat out the most generic answer, he copied it over to Jira and everyone started clapping.

Suffice to say, what I see now is infinitely worse: people treating Dario, Altman, Musk (and people that should be locked up for life) as gods is disgusting. From financial, social and political aspects (which is to say all aspects), we are absolutely cooked. I was having this discussion with my mom as well as friends and we are all on the same page: say we want to just disappear and not deal with it, there is no one country on earth that can provide sanctuary.

In the 2010s, the tech industry was a place where smart people could be smart and reasonable. The crypto-bollocks was it's special corner where people that had no understanding of cryptography and decentralization could larp around. AI just let them spill out into the rest of the tech world. Add the griefter economy, the idiotic act of making stupid people famous and the fact that, at large, people are not self-aware at all and we get to where we are: Idiocracy was not a comady but a prediction for the very near future - one which we are already in.

Simple example: planes have been capable of taking off and landing on their own with 0 human input. 5 years ago, no sane human being would have boarded a plane without a pilot. Hundreds of millions would jump on board now without batting an eyelash. Not only that but if any slop-corp made a fully slopped-together plane, people would start bidding for tickets to be the first on board. All while people like Jensen are openly saying "Knowing maths is not important. For example I don't know my own address".

The only hope I have is that there will be a great collapse soon - things need to get worse before they get better.

This question fully captures my two main problems with the current AI-fanaticism. I've said it a million times: writing code was never the hard part and in my world has always been the most enjoyable part of software.

First, to me, the two major differences between a junior and a senior developer are(or used to be, I'll get to that in a bit):

1. Intuition: software is all about compromise and knowing when you can, should and should not cut corners and at what cost really is, to a very high degree, intuition(and some auxilary technical knowledge). 2. Domain knowledge.

Both come from, you guessed it, experience.

The second part is junior developers in general - from what I see, they are commonly completely detached from reading and writing code. Currently Gen-Z are entering the workforce. For many of them(vast majority), cut off their connection to the internet and they struggle with a simple while loop. And they look horrified when I tell them that 15 years ago, we were writing code - SVMs on a sheet of paper as exams. Same goes for all the people who said "oh well, no need to write the code if the AI can do it for me". Seeing people with two decades of experience turn into idiocracy characters is painful. Like in a year I see the seniors revert back into what juniors are today - completely incapable of formulating and facing a problem without an LLM on their side. And worse still - they will never admit it but I see how much they stop being passionate and just roll with everything.

The other thing to consider is burnout: take a senior that understands your service or product completely: in a real world scenario you know that no system is ever going to be perfect. You can only push someone so far with mountains of small, medium and large tasks and tell them "what's the big deal, you have unlimited slop max pro"? The big deal is small and trivial tasks which, with or without AI, require context switching which is exhausting. It's not a question of "if" but "when" will your senior get burned out and toss everything at slop max pro++ and just collect a paycheck for as long as the company is around or something better pops up. And in that same context - if you come to me with 5 jira tickets and tell me they have to be done by the end of the day, do I really have the time and mental strength to pay close attention to all of them or just be like "hey slop, see this ticket? do it? when tests pass, deploy". At this point, my question is, am I a senior developer if I was practically never in the loop of what was done?

A lot of companies do this but I always get a ton of hate for saying this: Telegram is the worst offender I've seen. If you start digging through their apps, you see a ton of security practices that are anything but secure. And one of the hundreds of reasons I treat Telegram as the plague: get it away from me and burn it with fire.

I completely ditched reddit like 2 years ago and this post helped me find out that claude has a subreddit. Quick scroll and jfc, I thought I had seen ai delusion here. A single scroll and 10+ "I build {X} using claude with just {Y}$". Can we cut to the mass bankruptcy now, this timeline is beyond stupid.

Funnily enough, I just wrapped up describing it https://axegon.com/#blog/i-own-you-but-i-dont-trust-you.md

And that's not all. I used to work with a guy who spent a large portion of his career at a famous car manufacturer. I can't say which one cause their operation and output is rather small(niche, hyper-wealthy customers that take their international passport when they go for a drink across the street, "just in case"). From what he told me, their cars have 11 individual computers with full operating systems on them for various reasons. While compute has become more expensive over the last few years, courtesy of slop, small, embedded ARM devices are still inexpensive and incredibly powerful. I also spent a short time in the automotive industry(where I met the guy I mentioned) and modern cars are an absolute integration hell and even their engineering teams can't say fully what's in them in terms of hardware and it's magnitudes worse with software.

I drive a 13+ year old car with retro-fitted android navigation from a now bankrupt Chinese manufacturer so no updates in the last 4 years at least. I have really gone to great lengths to leave the bare minimum (given that I self-host everything except for maps). It easily took a day of fiddling about with the navigation and OpenWRT alone and I don't know anyone else that has gone as far as I have. In fact, just about everyone I know doesn't care. If I had to guess, I'd say the answer is a firm "no".

This is part of the reason why I don't want a new car: I don't want to be involved in this directly. A guy from work got a brand new Hyundai(I think), and the first thing that popped on the navigation was "Create an account with Hyundai now". Nah. Nah. Forget it. I have 3 issues:

1. I should not have to authenticate or have connectivity to a manufacturer unless I want to once I've paid for a physical good(cars being physical goods).

2. I don't want my personal data to be sold off to anyone - I've been in the tech industry for long enough to know that "I don't want my data to be shared with third parties" is worth as much as the power used to light up the pixels on the screen.

3. I don't trust anyone to have done everything carefully and by the books to prevent any potential leaks.

In 95% of all cases - slopper/clanker.

We are practically living in the idiocracy universe at this point so we are at best a few years away from watering crops with gatorade.

Minerva's Matchbook, kinda painful to read, seeing how catastrophically familiar some things feel 20+ years later if you swap "Italy" with just about any other country.

I worked in gaming for a long time. I'm sorry to break it to you, but this is the entire gaming industry(not just gambling). And it has been that at least since the early 2010s when I got involved and all the way until I got away from it.

"Rules for thee, not for me"

Imagine if any of us mortals did something of this sort...

I was being sarcastic. I hate all of those with a passion.

Exactly. Most restaurants you go to don't care about the food they serve you nor do they care about the products they use, as long as it doesn't harm their business. Same with groceries - manufacturers don't care, as long as what they sell you is acceptable and passes regulations. But once you go to a restaurant with standards, you can immediately tell the difference. I do not come from a wealthy family and even as such, I certainly prefer paying the higher price now that I can afford it.

> You _wish_ for the crash because you are hateful of progress that you are not part of.

Microsoft 2000

> You _wish_ for the crash because you are hateful of progress that you are not part of.

Facebook 2008

> You _wish_ for the crash because you are hateful of progress that you are not part of.

Cryptobros 2013

> You _wish_ for the crash because you are hateful of progress that you are not part of.

Altman/Dario/Musk 2020-onwards.

There might be a trend here...