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That's hilarious, since it's neither thought nor leadership.

That's surprising because runtime debugging depends on the state of the call stack, all the variables, etc. Syntax errors happen independent of any of that state.

Like the sibling comments, I see it the opposite way. Caring about your work in detail, anything the slightest bit bespoke, is becoming an antipattern. Employers want you to generate mediocre work because it's cheaper, and you only need to make sure it's not on fire. Mediocre peers are happy to go along with it as the short term path of least effort.

Startups have been replaced by shovelware, curiosity has been replaced by demand for summarization, hacking has been replaced by financial engineering.

Overengineering won. That's not going to go well when paired with the new best practice of not actually learning your tools because the AI will take care of it.

"Slop" and "hallucinate" have meanings outside of AI too, but it's easier to repurpose existing words than come up with a whole new lexicon for AI failure modes.

"Who are you, and how did you lose your job?"

"I'm an AI reporter. And, I'm an AI reporter."

Sorry, the toothpaste doesn't go back into the tube with social issues. Interracial marriage isn't going away either lol.

Good comp. Working with expensive materials and stuff that can explode while people are inside by necessity forces a greater scrutiny of good vs. bad ideas. You don't get that ideal balance between experimentation and wisdom when anyone can type anything into an editor at no cost.

Discretion will be the better part of the tech industry, if we ever reach that maturity level.

What about social media, did that evolve into something sane and useful or has it remained owned by the cash grabbers? Have we not yet internalized that they've permanently captured control of technological advances?

Best Buy price matches Amazon, I get what I want same day, no need to pay a monthly fee for "free" shipping. I used to browse Amazon for reviews (hoping at least some weren't fake) then buy in the real world in person, but now that Amazon is replacing access to reviews with AI summaries (there's a login barrier to see more than the first few) there's no need to go there at all.

Maybe a way to game the modern right is to draw attention to something true so that they remember it exists, then they try to censor it, thereby triggering a Streisand effect.

Kaffee: Corporal, would you turn to the page in this book that says where the mess hall is, please?

Cpl. Barnes: Well, Lt. Kaffee, that's not in the book, sir.

Kaffee: You mean to say in all your time at Gitmo, you've never had a meal?

Cpl. Barnes: No, sir. Three squares a day, sir.

Kaffee: I don't understand. How did you know where the mess hall was if it's not in this book?

Cpl. Barnes: Well, I guess I just followed the crowd at chow time, sir.

Kaffee: No more questions.

Mediocrity as a Service

Or they've determined that micromanaging it is circuitous and increases their dependence on tech giants, so it's a bad deal given that they also need to know the work well enough to verify it anyway.

It feels true to them, that's the only thing that matters.

It's not really important whether it's a one-off thing with this one guy, he's not relevant in the big picture. To the extent that he deindividualizes his labor he's just one more fungible operator of AI anyway.

People are making a bigger deal about it than this one article or site warrants because of ongoing discourse about whether LLM tech will regularly and inevitably lead to these mistakes. We're all starting to get sick of hearing about it, but this keeps happening.

The tool when working as intended makes up quotes. Passing that off as journalism is either malicious or unacceptably incompetent.

You're asking what's the alternative to this? A chance for real connection and healing that isn't vulnerable to the whim of a tech giant and its compulsion for profit. A chance at counsel that isn't vulnerable to a random number generator steering them one day towards self harm.

That's great, will you also add the category field to the text file in the repo? These projects are often heavy on tech blogs and I'd like to filter those out.

"Agenda" has become code for "ideas I don't agree with", used by people who mistakenly believe it (politics) can be compartmentalized from other everyday topics and only trotted out at election time.

I can picture the entire hierarchy telling whoever's next up the chain what they're demanding to hear.

I'd be scripting the consumption of lots of credits and sending the output to /dev/null to get a glowing performance review.

Credit cards provide convenience and cash back benefits. Some might prefer to pay cash for everything for ultimate privacy, and that's fine. But credit cards are the compromise I make. I can still pay cash when I think it's appropriate for a given transaction.

Using Google or Apple Pay so I can tap my phone instead of my card gives me no extra benefit that I care about and complicates my ecosystem with another party.

I use my credit and debit cards the same way today as I did before smartphones existed. I never invited the extra surveillance middleman of Google/Apple into my transactions. And the convenience of tapping or swiping a plastic card is simpler than using my phone anyway. Is this not possible in Spain?

And when your local model generated video gets uploaded, YouTube will just remove it then.

Local models will always be disadvantaged on compute power anyway. Hobbyists can do what they want locally but the culture will be dominated by what the tech and media giants permit. They'll now have the power centralized at time of creation and not just upon publication on their own platforms.

This is the future of creation that many want to see. The only ideas allowed will be ones that corporations aren't afraid of being sued about.

Right, this article overlooks the difference between a first encounter and regular encounters. The concise representation pays off when you do learn it, as long as it's executed well.

And I'm fine with a bit of cognitive exploration to figure out a green check and red X scheme rather than see a whole table column filled up with words like "active" and "inactive". The former allows more columns on screen at once. Horizontal scrolling is a worse impediment to assimilating information from a table.

Amazon has successfully trained the population to turn all of their shopping into impulse buy mode.

Why is this so cringe? That's not the typical way AI writing is bad.