Being queer and in IT, there’s a decent chance Alan Turing would have been a furry.

Let that sink in.

They don’t even have to sell what they’ve got. They just have to stop buying more and invest elsewhere instead.

The US runs on a perpetually increasing deficit. If that line were to stop going up, we’d instantly fall into a recession.

It’s possible to design fluid couplings for torque. That’s what a torque converter in an automatic transmission does.

It’s not quite as elegant, of course, but still.

The doctor is hilarious and I want B’lanna to step on me

Joshington?

Jhleswig-Holstein?

I think some people are so eager to offload all critical thinking to the machine because they’re barely capable of it themselves to begin with.

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It’s glorified autocorrect (/predictive text).

People fight me on this every time I say it but it’s literally doing the same thing just with much further lookbehind.

In fact, there’s probably a paper to be written about how LLMs are just lossily compressed Markov chains.

I fucking hate when people ask an LLM “what were you thinking” because the answer is meaningless, and it just showcases how little people understand of how they actually work.

Any activity inside the model that could be considered any remote approximation of “thought” is completely lost as soon as it outputs a token. The only memory it has is the context window, the past history of inputs and outputs.

All it’s going to do when you ask it that, is it’s looking over the past output and attempting to rationalize what it previously output.

And actually, even that is excessively anthropomorphizing the model. In reality, it’s just generating a plausible response to the question “what were you thinking”, given the history of the conversation.

I fucking hate this version of “AI”. I hate how it’s advertised. I hate the managers and executives drinking the Kool-Aid. I hate that so much of the economy is tied up in it. I hate that it has the energy demand and carbon footprint of a small nation-state. It’s absolute insanity.

Animals never had a war

Guess they call what happened in Tanzania in 1974 a “chimp police action” instead.

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I’ve long maintained that actually writing code is only a small part of the job. Understanding the code that exists and knowing what code to write is 90% of it.

I don’t personally feel that gen AI has a place in my work, because I think about the code as I’m writing it. By the time I have a complete enough understanding of what I want the code to do in order to write it into a prompt, the work is already mostly done, and banging out the code that remains and seeing it come to life is just pure catharsis.

The idea of having to hand-hold an LLM through figuring out the solution itself just doesn’t sound fun to me. If I had to do that, I’d rather be teaching an actual human to do it.

“AI bubble causing economic collapse” here.

Sloppysoft or Microslop?

Debating which word to add to my lexicon this year.

Great source of protein crawling there across the ground, it’d be a shame if someone wasn’t there to eat it

But at a certain point, it seems like you spend more time babysitting and spoon-feeding the LLM than you do writing productive code.

There’s a lot of busywork that I could see it being good for, like if you’re asked to generate 100 test cases for an API with a bunch of tiny variations, but that kind of work is inherently low value. And in most cases you’re probably better off using a tool designed for the job, like a fuzzer.

I’ve maintained for a while that LLMs don’t make you a more productive programmer, they just let you write bad code faster.

90% of the job isn’t writing code anyway. Once I know what code I wanna write, banging it out is just pure catharsis.

Glad to see there’s other programmers out there who actually take pride in their work.

That’s probably based on the first definition because you can play either an ascending or descending scale.

Also the music staff kinda looks like a ladder.

Didn’t know doordashers could contact you through whatsapp

It was probably planned as the Defiant class but the Dorito Dictator isn’t going to be happy until he’s named every single thing after himself.