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thats the audience! Incompetent CEOS!

LogicFailsMe 10mo ago
Nearly every woman I know who is an English as a second language speaker is leaning hard into these things currently to make their prose sound more natural. And that has segued into them being treated almost as a confidant or a friend. As flawed as they are currently, I remain astounded that people think they will never improve and that people don't want a plastic pal who's fun to be with(tm). I find them frustrating personally, but then I ask them deep technical questions on obscure subjects and I get science fiction in return.
- pessimizer 10mo ago
  > I get science fiction in return. And once this garbage is in your context, it's polluting everything that comes after. If they don't know, I need them to shut up. But they don't know when they don't know. They don't know shit.
  - LogicFailsMe 10mo ago
    I am reminded of AI summaries and Microsoft Copilot. All push low value. But I separate that from the underlying potential of the technology. And I wish we heard more from deep domain experts like Karpathy and less from influencer dilettantes like Dylan Patel about where this is going.
  - thfuran 10mo ago
    I want to query a bayesian ontology, not a Markov chain with delusions of grandeur.
    - TeMPOraL 10mo ago
      Alas, computation costs energy, so you get what you can afford. Also one thing I thought LLMs did already is kill the misguided idea of applying prescriptive, formal categorization to the real world.
bwahah4 10mo ago
As an EE working in engineering 30 years, I ran out of fingers and toes 29 years ago trying to count the number of asocial, incompetent programmer Dark Triads who can only relate to the world through esoteric semantics unrelated to engineering problems right in front of them. "To add two numbers I must first simulate the universe." types that created a bespoke DSL for every problem. Software engineering is a field full of educated idiots. Programmers really need to stop patting themselves on the back. Same old biology with the same old faults. Programmers are subjected to the same old physics as everyone else.

Nearly every woman I know who is an English as a second language speaker is leaning hard into these things currently to make their prose sound more natural. And that has segued into them being treated almost as a confidant or a friend. As flawed as they are currently, I remain astounded that people think they will never improve and that people don't want a plastic pal who's fun to be with(tm). I find them frustrating personally, but then I ask them deep technical questions on obscure subjects and I get science fiction in return.

pessimizer 10mo ago
> I get science fiction in return. And once this garbage is in your context, it's polluting everything that comes after. If they don't know, I need them to shut up. But they don't know when they don't know. They don't know shit.
- LogicFailsMe 10mo ago
  I am reminded of AI summaries and Microsoft Copilot. All push low value. But I separate that from the underlying potential of the technology. And I wish we heard more from deep domain experts like Karpathy and less from influencer dilettantes like Dylan Patel about where this is going.
- thfuran 10mo ago
  I want to query a bayesian ontology, not a Markov chain with delusions of grandeur.
  - TeMPOraL 10mo ago
    Alas, computation costs energy, so you get what you can afford. Also one thing I thought LLMs did already is kill the misguided idea of applying prescriptive, formal categorization to the real world.

bwahah4 10mo ago

As an EE working in engineering 30 years, I ran out of fingers and toes 29 years ago trying to count the number of asocial, incompetent programmer Dark Triads who can only relate to the world through esoteric semantics unrelated to engineering problems right in front of them. "To add two numbers I must first simulate the universe." types that created a bespoke DSL for every problem. Software engineering is a field full of educated idiots. Programmers really need to stop patting themselves on the back. Same old biology with the same old faults. Programmers are subjected to the same old physics as everyone else.