It enables unskilled people to punch above their weight class, similar to giving a chainsaw to a toddler.

I’ve used them a little for coding, but it’s not always correct. It’s often incorrect in subtle ways. Or inefficient in non obvious ways. It gets worse as you build more.

Often it’s better overall to do it yourself if you know what you’re doing. If you stick to letting the LLM do it, you won’t learn much.

I don’t think I’ve blocked anybody, but I mostly don’t read names. Sometimes I wonder if I’m having a metaphorical fist fight in one thread and a love fest in another with the same person.

Guy at work did a whole mini project with just LLMs and prompting. I asked him some questions about how it works and some implementation details, and he had no idea. Great. I’m going to have to maintain this thing, probably.

Ehh. I would nullify

Hm. Okay. Seems like a good vector for public health stuff. Free condoms, testing, education, etc.

It’s eclipsed (no pun intended) by the horrors of war, disease, and conservatism. It’s hard to be excited about the moon when there’s measles outbreaks and at least one genocide.

Good. Windows is all of bad, expensive, and untrustworthy

I found Castle Rat when they opened for The Well a bunch of years back. Had no idea what to expect, but they really killed it. Been a fan ever since.

Anyone who voted for trump has it coming. There were no credible reasons to believe he would be a good president. Republican policies are all bad.

I thought it was going to be an endorsement of AI and I am pleasantly surprised it was not.

I think it’s low quality more than low effort. Low effort often gets low quality, but someone could spend hours making a bad Photoshop joke and it’s still shit

There is opportunity cost of Microsoft et al investing billions in AI instead of doing anything else. That money could have been spent on renewable energy research, improving efficiency of existing hardware, supporting work from home to reduce commuting, whatever. Those opportunities are lost because they went with AI instead.

I didn’t mean my opportunity cost from the toilet.

AI is a poor use of limited resources and opportunity.

I really don’t think the billions of dollars spent on AI is equivalent or at all analogous to the time I spend posting on the toilet or while waiting for things to happen at work.

He’s going to keep all his wealth and maybe stroll into a high paying “consulting” gig. It’s unfair. it’s unjust. People who are bad at their jobs and making the world worse do not deserve immense wealth and comfort.

Funnily enough it would probably be better for the majority of shareholders.

“too good to go”. Cheap food from places near the end of their business day. Like a whole pizza for $6.

I’m confident that if you waved a magic wand and removed currency, an hour later it would be reinvented via “hey, will you do me this favor? I’ll owe you one” -> “You already owe me one. But I guess you’ll owe me two? Let me write this down”

Living someplace with usable mass transit is pretty nice.

Gas is too cheap relative to its real costs anyway.

They should sell products users want at prices they’re willing to pay. Without abuse, deception, or other malicious acts.

The opportunity cost for AI is pretty high. That’s a lot of resources spent on something that’s bad for the world, even if it’s not specifically the worst for climate change reasons in a first order sense.