Dude there wasn’t any units. This was seriously something you could type into a python repl, an excel cell, or even windows calculator.

I saw a Claude log on a screen share yesterday where the dude was seriously using Claude to add two numbers together. This and things much stupider than this have been happening the whole time.

Closing coal mines is probably good policy anyway. Coal mines suck it.

Capitalists closed the coal mines too.

Modern day mining techniques require a small fraction of the manual labor they used to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

(Of course they also probably ruin the environment, but nobody seems to give a shit about that.)

Yep, corporate software developer here and they’re scared shitless of incorporating anything gpl’d.

They are currently trying to improve their agentic AI by making the AI itself prompt other AIs.

That’s how the whole thing works including Claude. Agents are just chat bots prompting other chat bots. They make the default visibility low so you don’t see all the chatter and mistakes occurring.

Guess I’ll need a new host for some of my recent repos. Oh well. Nothing that I haven’t dealt with for other reasons (with GitHub and Bitbucket).

I’m not sure if these tools will stick around, but if they do I’m not sure you’ll be able to find anyone that isn’t using them in a couple of years. I hate it but it does turn out that dropping a trillion dollars on automating writing software has yielded results.

Edit: Update: Moved my personal slopjects over to gitlab which is fully embracing the slop.

I get that some people are completely against LLM assisted coding. I’m still with you guys in spirit, but if these things stick around in their current quality (which is honestly a load bearing if) I just don’t see a way to continue working in the software industry and meeting expectations without using them.

The funnier one of these that I’ve done a handful of times is leaving the drive thru without purchasing anything.

I wanted breakfast or nothing, McDonald’s.

Well you see I’m a Virgo, and as a Virgo…

The analogy you picked really doesn’t match your point at the end, unless you somehow think astrology is nuanced (it isn’t, it’s bullshit).

It’s kinda insane to frame OpenAI as remotely equal to Apple with “two of the world’s biggest tech companies”.

This is kinda like how Tesla is a bigger company than other car companies combined by market cap but has a paltry market percentage and amount of cars sold.

Market caps and valuations run purely on vibes and have for some time now.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas

If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.

Oh well can’t change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It’s a shame the ancient powder-wigged wizards that wrote the constitution weren’t clairvoyant.)

please just make an android alternative

I want a phone that isn’t a closed ecosystem race to the bottom shit phone

All of that wannabe AGI horseshit is preventing these things from specialization and becoming more efficient and useful IMO.

In my recent usage of LLMs I’ve come to think of them as a type of eye-poppingly expensive, inefficient interpreter.

Losing a lot of the bullshit could make them efficient and inexpensive. To an extent, that’s what Anthropic has already been doing by making models that are mostly code focused.

Haha

Nobody deserves it more

Mark Cuckerberg

I switched to caveman on Claude Code. It cuts the token count; it’s the same output, and it appears to me to be faster as well.

My boss was talking about using AI agents for CI/CD processes. Like, I get using them to build CI/CD processes, but involving AI agents in the actual build process is ridiculously stupid. A representative from Microsoft specifically said in a training session to not use them that way so it’s obviously not only my stupid ass boss.