makerofthings

Whenever I run into a moral or political or similar dilemma I always ask myself, if this was an episode of TNG, which side would be the baddies and who would Picard side with? Never steered me wrong. RIP Patrick Stewart.

Food? Health care? Rent?

When you get to $100 million you get a letter from the president congratulating you for winning capitalism and everything after that gets taxed at 100%.

Why don't the humans from the left 99% simple eat the humans from the right 1%?

If I write a novel, have someone translate it to French and publish it, that's a compiler. If I hand some brief notes to someone who writes the novel for me, that's the llm. These are fundamentally different things.

Master development with agents ,clearly they aren't learning the whole of software engineering in a few days.

We have graduates come in and master development with agents in a few days. There's really not that much to it. There are a lot of people out there trying to make it sound difficult. Maybe to make themselves feel better, maybe to try and make money?

I wonder if their SREs have a 'Drone strike' playbook.

I'd call them on that. Printing it out would be a huge pain in the ass they would regret suggesting.

I'd happily tell them what I think about AI but they want me to create an account and tell them my date of birth. Where did you get the stickers?

I mean, I'd never try to tell you what to do, but as you asked, what you're talking about is the base of the pyramid, that holds up and normalizes the system that's putting artists out of work and enshittifying everything. These companies stole literally everything and used it to build a tool whose economic end goal is to put everyone out of a job. I'm not down with that, but you do you.

Oh absolutely, I don't have a magic way of detecting these things, but I do what I can. I would greatly prefer the best efforts of a person, regardless of how it turns out, to anything from generative ai. Everyone else can do as they wish, I'm not out to change anyone's mind :)

I'm sure there are, but for me this isn't some reactionary mistake. I understand the technology and I thought about it carefully and made a call based on how I understand the ethics of the situation.

It's so obvious that I wondered if someone had done it as a joke (that obviously didn't land).

I wouldn't buy a game that used generative ai and would refund one that I later discovered had. A quick straw poll of the gaming channels I'm in shows a lot of agreement amongst my friends.

You. Clearly.

That is an unnecessarily rude and mean comment.

Yes, but this time, we're the horse.

> AI companies are bad at making software

They should try using agents. I hear they can write great software.

One of them is pretend and the other one probably won't be?

I imagine it's writing a story about a character doing those things and then reading the story and acting on it.

Here's my conjecture. Large Language Models are the great filter. They represent a local maximum in the technological advancement of a species from which we will not escape.

No, that's entire deal.

They don't care about any of that. They're looking for more regulatory capture, to keep smaller labs from catching up by raising the cost of play, and perhaps keeping chinese labs away.

It's definitely chip muffin. I have no patience for those heretics up the road with their chip barms.

A huge marketing budget can push a mediocre game far further than a really good indie game that doesn't get lucky with youtube.

Which is exactly the problem. All the folks in charge care about is money. Money has absolutely nothing to do with whether a game is fun to play or not.

An eternal curse on the houses of anyone involved with these AIs.

yes, I saw that and hit back in a second.

It's more of a story about a character that is sentient than an actual sentient character.

Police work is supposed to be difficult.