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V0ldek, v0ldek@awful.systems
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NotAwfulTechI especially love the third task because that’s exactly the kind of shit you get thrown on your plate in the field as a SWE.
There’s been some work an old member of our team did a year ago. No one remembers what it was, but it is important. Please do something.
That’s almost exactly one of the first tasks I got as an intern when I was starting out. THIS is what they are saying LLMs are going to replace.
I saw people mentioning “Gas Town” like it’s a well-known meme and every time I searched it the top result was the GAS coin and I was like what’s going on, why is everyone talking about a meme coin, what’s even the root that is being memecoined here.
Well now I know and I need to puke, thx David, I love/hate you
>Reads first paragraph
>Hmm, this sounds like something that is theoretically infeasible to the point of “spending 30 minutes with some basic physics equations on the whiteboard disproves it”
>"$10 million dollars”
>"People did calculations that in an ideal setup…” oh look there it is, no waaay
Like I’m no physicist, you really don’t need much more than vague recollections of high-school physics to be like “huh?” at this…
Satire died when my friend told me at their Very Serious Corporation with a Very Important Mission Critical Software Stack they use a thing called “Splunk” and it wasn’t a joke.
domestic scenes and food imagery (sitting on my ass at the PC ingesting industrial amounts of crisps)
The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100;
And how did that work out in the long term? There were warning signs!
I think I already said this but you’re not making me use something called “Floorp” even if it’s the last piece of software in the world. Just come on.
can we cancel Mozilla yet
Sure! Just build a useful browser not based on chromium first and we’ll all switch!
Guess I’ll be expensing a nice set of rainbow whiteboard markers for my personal use, and making it up as I go along.
Congratulations, you figured it out! Read Clean Architecture and then ignore the parts you don’t like and you’ll make it
I mean if you ever toyed around with neural networks or similar ML models you know it’s basically impossible to divine what the hell is going on inside by just looking at the weights, even if you try to plot them or visualise in other ways.
There’s a whole branch of ML about explainable or white-box models because it turns out you need to put extra care and design the system around being explainable in the first place to be able to reason about its internals. There’s no evidence OpenAI put any effort towards this, instead focusing on cool-looking outputs they can shove into a presser.
In other words, “engineers don’t know how it works” can have two meanings - that they’re hitting computers with wrenches hoping for the best with no rhyme or reason; or that they don’t have a good model of what makes the chatbot produce certain outputs, i.e. just by looking at the output it’s not really possible to figure out what specific training data it comes from or how to stop it from producing that output on a fundamental level. The former is demonstrably false and almost a strawman, I don’t know who believes that, a lot of people that work on OpenAI are misguided but otherwise incredibly clever programmers and ML researchers, the sheer fact that this thing hasn’t collapsed under its own weight is a great engineering feat even if externalities it produces are horrifying. The latter is, as far as I’m aware, largely true, or at least I haven’t seen any hints that would falsify that. If OpenAI satisfyingly solved the explainability problem it’d be a major achievement everyone would be talking about.
Thank you for your service o7
Is it a single person or a worker co-op? Their copyright is sacred.
Is it a corporation? Lol, lmao, and also yarrr
I saw like a couple articles and a talk about Bell’s theorem 5 years ago and I immediately clocked this as a vast, vast oversimplification
They already had the Essential thing in the Nothing 3, but funnily enough, when I was shopping for a phone, it looked like the least obtrusive and annoying “AI feature” across the board, because every single fucking phone is now “AI powered” or whatever the shit.
But if they turn their OS into “AI native” and it actually sucks ass then great, I don’t think there’s literally any non-shitty tech left with Framework turning fash.
I still refuse to learn what an ezra is, they will have to drag my ass to room 101 to force that into my brain
Happy that we graduated from making military decisions based on what the Oracle of Delphi hallucinated to making military decisions based on what Oracle® DelPhi® Enterprise hallucinated
Oh look, it’s literally “we’re still early”, I missed the classics
My completely PIDOOMA take is that if you’re self-interested and manipulative you’re already treating most if not all people as lesser, less savvy, less smart than you. So just the fact that you can half-ass shit with a bot and declare yourself an expert in everything that doesn’t need such things like “collaboration with other people”, ew, is like a shot of cocaine into your eyeball.
LLMs’ tone is also very bootlicking, so if you’re already narcissistic and you get a tool that tells you yes, you are just the smartest boi, well… To quote a classic, it must be like being repeatedly kicked in the head by a horse.
Oh for fuck’s sake
Wait what, GitLab was doing crypto? The fuck is going on in those people’s heads
Two things:
One, it’s a remarkable accomplishment to not manage to cook an IPO even now when SEC is functionally gutted by the Trump admin. They made crime legal! What are you doing?! Just lie in the statements and run to Barbados or something
Two, I am baffled by this
Like what? What are you talking about. The whole point of the IPO is to cash out ASAP before the music stops. Why are you talking about OpenAI like it’s a real business? Am I in Wonderland? The best time for OpenAI to make an IPO was yesterday, the second best is right fucking now, how would waiting a year be possibly good for them
That’s the straw. I am moving to the woods [switching to vim]
Wait but like that means that MSFT didn’t get money for the ad from Raycast? So like, they just put ads into stuff for no reason whatsoever??
You only list one submission in the tier list, but you mention that there were a few to the first problem. Did other submissions fail so miserably they didn’t even qualify for a tier?
How can I short this
He walked so they could run
If anything, he is pissed that he wasn’t born now that there’s no consequences for this shit
In hindsight, it wasn’t the best of ideas.
I mean, it was obvious at the time as well, but nevertheless
Fuck that stupid owl, I never liked it
But if both are going to get obliterated in the next five years then the hedge is to buy like, govt bonds. It doesn’t matter if your fund goes down -20% when the entire market went -40%, you’re still losing to the guy who kept his cash under his mattress.
Do we think that a pop of an AI bubble will not result in a massive wipe all across the board, not just with “AI enablers”? These companies are also going to lose value in a recession.
He outside tho
I guess my confusion is this – at what point does reality exert any influence on the lies-and-trash accounting? What in the physical reality is the reason they can’t just keep fapcircling the economy forever?
I think the timelines don’t quite match for that, when Windows 11 came out the LLMs couldn’t even output code that compiled more than half the time. However, the moment I’ve learnt the start menu was coded in React I knew the age of
manWindows was over. I don’t know how good the guy behind it was in internal politics but everyone on the path from the idea to pushing it to main should be tried for treason and sent to hard labour (debugging the Azure web UI).I think this was the good old artisinal vibe coding of the previous era, where you still had to not care about quality manually.
Ye, I guess I should’ve said “investigated” there, precision is important here.
There’s not only no stock-holding public to hold them to account, even if there was and they filed a lawsuit nothing would happen. SEC doesn’t exist.
I guess this is the part I don’t understand - can’t they all just play this game of pretend forever? There has to be something that corresponds to music stopping in your musical chairs analogy, but if everyone plays along forever what happens? Is there any load bearing part of this bubble where real reality can have an impact? If the stakes of calling the bluff are a complete collapse of the stock market then why would any NVidia stockholders call the bluff ever?
So you talk about Depression 2, but do you have any idea of what could possibly be the spark? You compare it to Enron, but Enron got had because they got audited. The AI bubble seems unparalleled in creating fake money from nothing, is there any limit to how long they do it? Tether still exists
Also “tokens per watt per dollar” by god where are we. It’s like when Elon started to talk about “userminutes per tweetparsec per death threat” or whatever when he took over Twitter
Huh, I hope Satya asks Copilot how to solve this or they’re in trouble!
Wait, does the Starlink internet suck as well? I mean, it has to have high latency, that much I’ve assumed, but other than that?
The market can remain irrational longer than a chud’s heart can remain functional