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Soon we'll be coding with agent assistance and it'll suggest we get some Carls Jr. Big Ass Fries.
by pohl 2mo ago
Soon we'll be coding with agent assistance and it'll suggest we get some Carls Jr. Big Ass Fries.
- skeledrew 2mo ago"We've been going at it for some time now -- why don't we take a break? And you must be hungry -- I can recommend a great place..." Yep, only a matter of time.
- nilamo 2mo ago"This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. Alexa reports that your refrigerator is low on milk. Here's a $2 off coupon for Walmart, why don't you restock while I work?" Why do we choose to live in the worst timeline?
- butlike 2mo agoNo, This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. So you go to the store, but the milk is already sold out. Walmart will ship you the milk if you pay the S&H. You drive back home and check the terminal. "Completed in 6m37s." is the worst timeline. That's close though
- scubbo 2mo agoYeah - by comparison with this, "a computer takes over some digital work, thus permitting me to get things done in the real world" is positively benign!
- marcosdumay 2mo agoWell... Your example is way more likely than the GP's LLM getting the facts right.
- polotics 2mo agowhy would the terminal not say "completed in 30 minutes" even if it's only really 5 minutes of real work and 25 minutes of thumbs twiddling? If your agentic-harness provider is in bed or just the same as your LLM provider, that is the rational `best` case scenario/timeline. for them.
- mschuster91 2mo agoSans the ads, that would actually be a productive use for AI. Maintaining a well stocked fridge and pantry is a full time job in itself, especially if you have children. Unfortunately you'd have to wire your entire kitchen in cameras, your scale needs to be smart and all of it needs to be sent / processed in real time to track consumption which means it will take a lot of compute power and a level of data mining that could be abused by anybody from enterprising break-and-entry crews to the police, and on top of that if it's done by a cloud provider it's probably gonna end up in a data lake for targeted advertising.
- keiferski 2mo agoThe other day I pasted two links into ChatGPT, both different brands of the same appliance. One was $50, the other $200. I asked to compare the differences. It ended up recommending and linking me to an entirely different one, that I hadn't linked to at all. Don't know if it was just sloppy LLM "thinking," or a genuine ad.
- cyanydeez 2mo agoThe naive assumption would simply be it took up a prominent position in it's training data for arbitrary reasons. If I were some Marketing genius, I'd be asking the LLM makers if they need free training data and solicit brands to contribute.
- ccgreg 2mo agoThat’s already a big business!
- MattDaEskimo 2mo ago> Sorry, you're out of tokens until next week! What, last I checked I had 15%! > Apologies, I was searching for the closest <Large Franchise Restaurant> since you are typically hungry around this time
- DANmode 2mo agoExtra Big-Ass Fries.
- OptionOfT 2mo agoI'm thinking it'll suggest Whiskey, combined with a breathalyzer, to keep you in the sweet spot of the Ballmer peak[0]. [0]: https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
- cyanydeez 2mo ago>Whoa, that's a lot of output you've generated; you should stop for some Brawndo, its what plants crave
- jodacola 2mo agoWow, for some reason this surfaced an old memory: when EverQuest ran a promo in-game that let you order a pizza by entering `/pizza` [0]. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7020132
- rglover 2mo agoI don't think I've laughed quite as hard as I did the first time I heard Carl's Jr., fuck you, I'm eating.