“Social” suddenly feels like the wrong word for it, when the entity being fooled is a next-word-predictor algorithm.

Google’s built in AI for searches is hilariously inept about a third of the time.

That’s when you notice it being hilariously inept. It actually worse than that, but in areas you’re not expert enough to notice.

It sounds like that’s the point.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/explainlikeimcalvin

Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!

If they say the magic word, investors throw money.

Milk bottles in the supermarkets in the UK are now using weird sizes like 1.136l, because apparently that easier for some old cunt to read.

Rope? I thought Jabba used a gold chain?

Now I’m imagining Dr Bunsen Honeydew shouting “Pivot!”

Like it was not just invented by a generic computation machine called the human brain, multiple times in different locations. Its more fundamental than that.

It’s the stuff they’re pushing like its new and fascinating and will grab people’s attention. So it makes you feel like you’re ahead of the curve.

Oh, it’s kinda the same as the similar sounding concepts in software. DRY = Dont Repeat Yourself vs WET = Write Everything Twice (aka We Enjoy Typing)

When did we start?

Changes that big need to be broken down into smaller PR-sized steps. To do that you need an actual plan of how to get from here to there. Bro is swaggering like a senior then coding like a junior.

What to do? Well now you have evidence that AI tools are not yet good enough to write code that doesn’t need human review before deploying to prod. Chat with whoever is in charge of Process, and get some team guidelines in place to prevent unreviewed code going to prod, and unreviewable PR’s being submitted for review.

Those “c-tier” motorised hotel-buffet ones are kinda goated for their use case. Stupid for home use of course.

And use tools? Is it full of stars?

I’m still using Firefox because I never bothered switching to Chrome when that became a thing.

Vespucciland -> Vespuccian.

I assume that’s what they mean by “You’re absolutely right…”

Betty when you call me you can call me clanker.