Web developer, husband, father, music lover.
My pet peeve with AI assisted writing is having to read content that the author hasn’t even read themselves.
If you can’t put in the effort to read what you supposedly wrote, why should I?
https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/
I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.
@RToD When computers became cheep enough to be disposable and no longer relied on physical media.
@cassidy That's kind of how the Fever app used to work with feeds.
https://github.com/mcaskill/fever
"AI" is not intelligent. Nor is it conscient.
There is no "it" behind LLMs. Only rich people who want you to unlearn all your skills, by relying more and more on their LLMs. And once you've unlearned all your skills and once you're so utterly dependent on LLMs because you're so helpless without them and once you no longer know how to do *anything* without consulting a LLM, these rich people will crank up the subscription prices and become even richer. Because in rent-seeking capitalism, of course everything is a subscription.
Companies like OpenAI keep telling you that AI is real and will soon™ become sentient and destroy the world. And for that reason, OpenAI and its likes are actually public benefit companies, at least according to their own arguments, because they—the good people, the Sam Altmans of the world—work on making AI safe, and are thus the saviors of the world!!! Messiah-complex much?
And because these companies now positioned themselves as public benefit companies, they get massive funding. It's all just a giant grift, designed to make rich bastards even richer. And people who spend way too much time on LinkedIn fall for it, in masses.
It's time to wake up! You've been utterly fooled if you didn't know any of this. But it's not too late. Do the programming yourself again instead of vibe-coding some shit you don't understand. Unless you *want* to pay ever-increasing subscription fees to the Sam Altmans of the world, like a serf, milking you until the day you die.
We spoke to the person who used AI to generate the Chicago Sun-Times' "Best of Summer" reading list. It contains real authors and fake books.
“On me 100 percent and I'm completely embarrassed.”
In a nutshell, Google used to be a bookstore where the best content “won” a click and it has become a casino where Google always wins over the long term. — Dreww (https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/05/zero-click-searches-googles-ai-tools-are-the-culmination-of-its-hubris/?comments=1&post=43738714)
#google #ai
my hot take about open source is that any sufficiently overcomplicated open source is indistinguishable from closed source freeware.
@carnage4life I’m glad to see that we can all agree on at least one thing.
@nikitonsky Thank you for highlighting this. It’s something that’s annoyed me as well.
@nando161 This x100. That’s exactly what we’re doing on our planet currently, we’re just doing it completely haphazardly.
Stackoverflow bans LLMs: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831/1708801
I missed this but still important news.
There is nothing shocking in the rationale, the quality is just not high enough and the content just sounds right enough that the effort to review swamps out good content.
Frame 114,695 of 207,800
BAM!!!
PERFECT RESPONSE!
White people in South Africa still cannot speak Zulu even after settling there for almost four hundred years.
We got a new home heating system installed this spring - a massive investment. During the initial pre-sales conversations I made it 100% clear that any system that required an internet connection was not acceptable in any way.
When the work was done the installation tech informed us that for the system to function it needed to be connected to the internet. I let him know this wasn't what we were told up front, and that we were unwilling to compromise.
"I'm sorry sir, I know this system inside and out, and it doesn't work without a connection. I don't know what you were told, but this is what we need to do next."
"In that case I would like you to leave my house while I call your company and my lawyer."
A few hours and three escalations later, the system is working just fine without any internet connection.
FFS, it shouldn't be this hard. The stove, the fridge, the fucking thermostats. No. Absolutely fucking not.
