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by 48terry 5mo ago
I don't know how to tell you this, but people actually can and do, in fact, worry about the methods things come to be made with, and make decisions based on if they approve of that process or not. Otherwise the idea of free trade choco
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> A part of growing up is learning to put up with "good enough". "I feel content with good enough in this case." - quote from child whose body got folded in half by a Tesla Your growing up and adulthood sounds a lot l
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by 48terry 5mo ago
What in the hell are you babbling about? Talking about what public companies do versus what the black mystery box with a question mark on it does is asinine. The entire point of this shit is that Anthropic's numbers AREN'T availab
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> its June quarter sales could reach at least $10.9 billion It COULD reach $10.9 billion. It COULD also completely shit itself and go bust. We'll just all have a fun time finding out together, won't we, investors?
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by 48terry 5mo ago
The direct and unambiguous purpose of AI as a tool has been to replace labor and treat workers badly. This is not some doomsaying thing. This is literally what CEOs and billionares creating and pushing this shit have openly discussed and sh
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by 48terry 5mo ago
Let's add to this comparison a bit. Said farm workers have also been noticing headlines over the last years like: "Crop harvester CEO predicts crop harvesting machine will wipe out millions of jobs within months" "Crop h
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by 48terry 5mo ago
How are you adjusting for the general feedback people are giving of "this is proving to be an unpopular idea and people hate the fundamental premise of it"?
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> keep hacking, Andon! Man, I remember when the word hacking meant something.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> pushing the boundaries of human spacefaring capability I guess polluting space with shitty satellites and causing environmental disasters with failed and questionably-permitted rocket launches is, technically, pushing on boundaries of
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by 48terry 5mo ago
Experiment: "We got AI to do things and it did weird stuff sometimes". Brilliant! Amazing! I'm glad ~4 years down the line we're still re-discovering Ha Ha Funny Output.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
On one hand, we pay out the ass for computer parts. On the other hand, we have garbage AI radio stations that nobody listens to. It's an even trade.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
By not doing that.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
You, hypothetically, are a bit of a rough person in your early 20s. You do some Crimes, one of which was against me. We'll say it was enough to give you a hefty fine and a year or less of jail time. I don't press charges. 20 years
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by 48terry 5mo ago
Honestly, this isn't too different from any other software or technology nowadays. "What if the service provider pulls the rug on us and jacks up the price exponentially / begins the enshittification" is (and if you aren
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by 48terry 5mo ago
The current LLM hype started, what, 5 years ago? It's an industry throwing billions of dollars (and teasing at the word trillions) around. It's had super bowl ads. It's a technology that's being mandated in corporate off
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by 48terry 5mo ago
This is so far outside of reality that I can't believe I'm even commenting on it. If you believe people don't use software that is unmaintained and hilariously out of date I genuinely don't know what world you live in or
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by 48terry 5mo ago
People always forget they're one unlucky event from losing their sight, hearing, dexterity, or more. Hell, like you say, even aging's enough to do it. Accessibility suddenly becomes a lot more important when you're on the oth
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by 48terry 5mo ago
If the maintainers burn out, nobody's going to be making your software secure.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> Maybe I have even higher RoI/EV stuff to be doing. I mean, to readers of these comments, I think it's right there for you: 0x3f will take "higher ROI" over "accommodate and support disabled people".
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> just have the LLM setup whatever dom manipulation you want and have it write decent JS without slop. Hmm, yes, simply have the LLM write good with no mistakes.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> You call it lazy. I call it "focus" Is this to be read that disabled people and their needs, or more directly from the replied-to comment, "doing the right thing", are not a focus of yours, flossly?
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by 48terry 5mo ago
I mean software as a customer/user is by and large completely miserable anymore. People don't like spending money on yet another Solution that will screw them over then shut down, screwing them over again regarding whatever they w
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by 48terry 5mo ago
> The demand for AI is currently overwhelming [...] companies growing 3x in a month while "Yes, but have you considered number go up?"
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by 48terry 5mo ago
That didn't actually address my comment or question, so I'll repeat it, I guess. We already know AI is spamming unreliable crap and slop. The apparent solution is "more, better AI". Why wouldn't this AI for screenin
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by 48terry 5mo ago
Claude for Legal: Your #1 AI Agent for getting fined and referred to the bar over filing non-existent citations.
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by 48terry 5mo ago
How do you verify that Claude's output when checking slop is, in fact, correct, and not just more slop itself?
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by 48terry 5mo ago
If AI is already mass-producing garbage PRs and other unreliable crap, what makes AI (established as producing unreliable crap) the solution for review? What makes the reviewing AI not produce unreliable crap with regards to the review? A m
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by 48terry 7mo ago
With the current atmosphere around technology, I feel like "digitize air traffic control" is an idea that will be both executed terribly by the money grubbing lunatics in control the government and tech corporations, AND received
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by 48terry 8mo ago
> Or can they stay on at Ars if for example, it was explained as an unintentional mistake while using an LLM to restructure his own words and it accidentally inserted the quotes and slipped through. No. Don't giving people free pass
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by 48terry 11mo ago
This entire article is the dude jerking himself off about how smart he is with amazing anecdotes like a third grade spelling bee.

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