archagon

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by archagon 7mo ago
> How do I tell my colleagues to stop contributing unverified AI output without creating tension between us? Embrace the tension. Tension is human.
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by archagon 7mo ago
Actually, if you defer all your coding decisions to agents, then you're not doing engineering at all. You don't say you're doing "contractor engineering" when you pay some folks to write your app for you. At that po
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by archagon 7mo ago
Indeed. In my view, "software engineering is a solved problem" is a roughly equivalent statement to "writing is a solved problem." I'm convinced that people who say this were never serious engineers to begin with, v
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by archagon 7mo ago
But then... don't you need to distill the water anyway? It's not like blue water lacks impurities.
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by archagon 7mo ago
They picked the enshittification generators over paying people to enshittify by hand. Well, maybe they can spin up some fake users with all those GPUs to use their shitty site. (Oh, heh. I just remembered that they actually did that: https
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by archagon 7mo ago
Except vibe coding is not "engineering," but more akin to project management. Engineering presupposes a deep and thorough understanding of your code. If you ship code that you’ve never even looked at, you are no longer an engineer
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by archagon 8mo ago
FYI, there is an alternative, depending on what you need it for: https://jamiekoufman.com/tne-transnasal-esophagoscopy-is-the... However, doctors who do it are a bit hard to come by. With a esophagogastroduodenoscopy, I thi
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by archagon 8mo ago
Sounds a bit like the transnasal esophagoscopy I opted for recently in lieu of an upper endoscopy. Thin tube through nose, then down into the esophagus. Uncomfortable while threading it through (chest pain, like swallowing a sharp tortilla
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by archagon 8mo ago
Not to mention an easy target for police stops. Glad I live in a city with decent public transit.
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by archagon 8mo ago
Bellingcat is a good one to follow.
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by archagon 8mo ago
Since we’re just considering things without providing any evidence, have you considered that we don’t have such a system?
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by archagon 8mo ago
Funny, because I have the exact same thing to say to the legislators. Oh, it's too hard to get everyone voter ID? Too expensive? That's life; figure it out before passing your pointless security theater law[1]. Otherwise, we wil
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by archagon 8mo ago
Comments like the one you’re replying to give me a disturbing feeling — like AI is speaking through the mouths of its users, Pluribus style.
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by archagon 8mo ago
So why vibe code a version of a thing that already exists in a dozen different permutations, and with actual eyes on the codebase?
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by archagon 8mo ago
As I see it, the only reason to make such a bold claim (as opposed to just doing what you do and seeing how things shake out) is insecurity. Especially if you’re condescending about it.
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by archagon 8mo ago
Because when it eventually and inevitably corrupts your data, you won't know what to do or have any recourse?
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by archagon 8mo ago
For some reason, AI boosters can't help but condescend. I've never seen this with the rollout of any other technology. It's like this stuff immediately becomes a core part of their personality.
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by archagon 8mo ago
If you truly believe "those days" are over, you're in for a depressing few decades as the world moves on without you. Most reasonable people — even white people like myself — are disgusted by the sort of rhetoric that Musk re
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by archagon 8mo ago
Why would I use a social network run by someone with opinions straight from the pages of Stormfront? I don't need white supremacy mixed in with my light recreational reading, thanks.
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by archagon 8mo ago
If a social network stays comparatively small but still active, I see that as a huge win. Half the people I follow are happily on Mastodon. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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by archagon 8mo ago
Yeah. You sure learn a whole lot of horrible shit about the world in gender-integrated social spaces. (Like how many women start getting unwanted adult male attention when they turn 12.)
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by archagon 8mo ago
Same as any other conspiratorial thinking: they hold themselves in too high a regard and want to think they’re privy to some secret knowledge that the rubes have missed.
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by archagon 8mo ago
Somehow I doubt the precedent will apply to common folk. There will be some obscene carevout like “piracy fair use for corporations training frontier models” and we’ll be even worse off than we were before.
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by archagon 8mo ago
It seems like most of the people complaining about this aren't actually on Mastodon.
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by archagon 8mo ago
It’s weird that you think a social network needs to have some sort of technological drive or entrepreneurial spirit to be relevant. If anything, this will lead to its inevitable enshittification, as you can plainly see in Twitter and Facebo
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by archagon 8mo ago
“and many do” Yeah, that’s definitely citation needed .
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by archagon 8mo ago
Uh, you mean like a spam filter? I would not use an e-mail service without one.
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by archagon 8mo ago
There’s a good chance that era will come back. With the overwhelming amount of AI slop coming down the pipeline, I think many people will seek content unapolagetically written by real people.
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by archagon 8mo ago
“When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do things besides comedy. They say, ‘OK, you're a stand-up comedian — can you act? Can you write? Write us a script?’ It's as though if I were a coo
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by archagon 8mo ago
A new technology comes out — admittedly one that’s extraordinarily capable at some things — and suddenly conventional software engineering is “more or less obviated at this point”? I’m sorry, but that’s really fucking dumb. Do you think LLM

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