My latest stance is
"If it would work like that they wouldn't sell it to you for a few bucks per month"
same reason why back then every crypto mining seller stopped selling their hardware as soon as out of bootstrap phase.
for that time the hardware was printing money. why should they sell it.
why should LLM stuff be sold to you if it really is the access to the end of labour
"The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."
a fantasy many people put a lot of money in
Sycophancy is the technical term
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophancy#AI_sycophancy
Hm I looked it up after writing and its not even the algorithm I was thinking about.
often you have semi-sorted lists and identifying sorted segments beforehand drastically reduces sort time.
It's common in reality.
but tbh if you ever implement sorting and it's not a coding kata you might be doing your job wrong. Use a (standard-)library
Back then it was super trivial to spot those who knew shit about computer eng and everyone else.
a degree does not help.
perhaps the AI mania makes this even more easy to filter out.
I am not about "here is a chalkboard go implement insertion sort without looking it up" I am talking about "it is so obvious it almost radiates out of the candidate"
But to be fair competent people in tech had always been rare and expensive.
many people just scrape by.
I always remember the cloud engineer who did not knew what memory was. to them it was just a number they increase on demand in the AWS console.
And I am thinking "this is one of THE most fundamental building blocks of how computing works damn".
That was long before our AI mania.
In fact I know many people who hoped to be conflated with the competent people back then
But back to my original point
regardless of the ethics of AI (which I already had a stance on).
Conflating being someone who knows tools (photoshop, kotlin, scribus, ...) with someone who knows how to operate a generator (LLM etc) hurts the person who believes that incl. all the people who fall for it.
When you as a business hire an "AI artist" rather than an "artist" you will have bad surprises pretty soon
In fact I am not even sure if "command" is the proper term.
rather it is a command-fuzzer?
"touch grass" is a shell command to create (or set last modified timestamp) of a file.
putting in the same in an LLM will create the file just *somewhere*. Perhaps it will even be a grass.md or shrubbery.docx wherever the LLM diceroll leads you
I was introduced to actually using LLM at work. I had no experience from beforehand (besides knowing what a Transformer is, having studied an ML-heavy specialization at uni, etc). One might argue I had actual knowledge rather than the cargo cult that AI users built for themselves.
my colleagues are a bit... surprised by how I input commands?
Sycophancy disabled
I never say please / thanks
i use the imperative
the LLM is primed not to use pronouns like "we" or "I" / low anthropomorphization
e. g.
writing a character with that believe is nod cringe.
but *BEING* that character unironically?
ouch
Yes I do think AI and almost everything about it is morally bad and having fun with LLM might be the same kind of fun as licking the boots of a world destroying billionaire.
but I don't understand the hybris of conflating the job and skill of software development with the usage of LLM.
I don't feel threatened.
But I do feel Fremdscham / Cringe when someone actually believes that for themselves
my father just sent me something he generated LLM and said it was his first app
huh?
dude...
he has been writing software since half a century.
How is this is "first app" when it's not used in the "phone specific" sense of the word but used more generally.
I do genuinly think he never build an "Web App" before but that's because of his industry niche
I pity those who create apps and other gimmicks using LLM and pretend it's the same thing.
I think it's good to have fun.
go have fun with LLM if that's your kind of jam I know it is not mine.
but don't pretend this makes you a developer.
For all the same reasons why opening a microwave meal doesn't make me a michelin cook
This idea of "yeah we just have 100 agents running and don't need to hire anybody" is too prevalent.
I would like the amount of people I know with this believe to be 0.
It's always
1) use AIA
2) ????
3) Profit
and that's the whole plan.
nobody ever knows that 2) but for some reason they think it will work out for them when the largest companies in the world would do that if it works.
better yet: why would they sell it to you at bargain prices when it would work?
This "AI versus Employee" topic assumes these two things can be used interchangably.
They can't.
Don't fall for their lie.
I know too many people who fell for this "AI can replace employees" lie hook, line and sinker.
For some reason the only companies that can make money with LLM is organized crime (fraud). For some reason the largest tech companies in the world are spending billions of dollars with no profit in sight.
why should your startup be different?
I'm in dire need of a sensible #mail client
When you have a catch-all address you can set your #Thunderbird to answer from the adressed mail address in reploys.
e. g. someone writes you a mail adressing
bills1@yourdoma.in
then you reply
you willbe sending from
bills1@yourdoma.in
the setting is at the bottom and called "reply from this Identity when delivery headers match"
the regex will be "*@yourdoma.in"
thanks @jendrik
Bis vor kurzem startete der Motor noch ohne Probleme.
Motor war nie problematisch.
Reifen vorne sind neu wie man im Inserat-Foto erkennt.
Auto wurde stillgelegt weil eine der Bremsen wurde ausgebaut und es hat nur noch 3 Bremsen.
Das war die Reparatur auf die ich keinen Bock mehr hatte aber wie gesagt zu Lebzeiten wurde es gut gepflegt
Ich schlage vor, dass man 'n bissl Kühlmittel nachkippt ehe man das erneut probiert
ansonsten glaube ich war es das letzte Mal, dass man das Auto gestartet hat
