bgwalter

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by bgwalter 1y ago
Because the paid plan isn't anonymous and you have no guarantee that they won't sell your history to advertisers, even if you don't see ads. Perhaps you also have to show your YouTube history when you enter the US.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Saying to someone "you are more intelligent if you don't use an LLM" is a compliment, not an insult.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I quoted zero studies in the comment you respond to and had no intentions of doing so. I quoted a study as well as personal observations under duress after a citation demand appeared.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The LLM proponents are so desperate now that they have to resort to personal insults. Are investors beginning to realize the scam?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If you are the type who prefers studies: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/ Otherwise, read pro-LLM blogs which are mostly rambling nonsense that overpromises while almost no actual LLM wr
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> It makes no sense at all, it's cuckooland, are you all on crazy pills? Frequent LLM usage impairs thinking. The LLM has no connection to reality, and it takes over people's minds.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The article was commissioned by refactoring.fm, which, naturally, features Refactoring AI! Unsurprisingly the article comes to the conclusion that anyone can be trained, that 10x engineers are overrated, etc. The AI promotion strategy seems
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Yes! I'm pretty sure though that given the current hype someone can come up with an elaborate legal and moral justification for increasing video watching efficiency.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Here is a free business idea: Create an agentic "AI" video watcher. "AI" YouTube creators can register with the service, which will then watch their videos, will generate click-throughs to the advertisers and interact wi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If "AI" worked (which fortunately isn't the case), humans would be degraded to passive consumers in the last domain in which they were active creators: thinking. Moreover, you would have to pay centralized corporations that s
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Microsoft is also selling "AI", so they want headlines like "30% of our code is written by AI". So they force open source developers to babysit the tools and suffer. It's also an advertisement for potential "AI
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I think you should not turn things around here. Up to 2021 we had a vibrant software environment that obviously had zero "AI" input. It has made companies and some developers filthy rich. Since "AI" became a religion, it
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'd like to hear from Linux kernel developers. There is no significant software that has been written (plagiarized) by "AI". Why not ask the actual experts who deliver instead of talk? This whole thing is a religion.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> Since Mephisto (the brother of Diablo) Unbelievable. Perhaps some techies should read Goethe's Faust instead of Lord of the Rings.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I didn't mention one or two people, I mentioned a theoretical strategy that is also employed by non-unionized bureaucracies. And I admitted that the strategy is impeded by the fact that many software developers are self-loathing people
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Singing properly requires decades of training. Prompt engineering is like a 5 year old asking his parents for an ice cream. Some strategies are more successful than others.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
To each his own. I'm completely drained after 30 min of "discussing" with an LLM, which is essentially an overconfident idiot. Pushes never come from the LLM, which can be easily seen by feeding the output of two LLMs into ea
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> Especially we as software engineers are not prepared for this fight as unions barely exist in our field. You can fight without unions. Tell the truth about LLMs: They are crutches for power users that do not really work but are used as
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This "fallacy" is from 1891 and assumes jobs that require virtually no retraining. A farm worker could ion theory clean the factory floor or do one small step in an assembly line within a week. Nowadays we already have bullshit jo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'm currently getting two types of ads on YouTube: One is about how the official Israeli Gaza humanitarian efforts are totally fine and adequate (launched during the flotilla with Greta Thunberg). The other is about an "AI" w
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They are so desperate that they start writing about LLM patterns now. Is an agentic LLM framework a Code Factory? Or perhaps a Code Factory Factory? Or is it like a burrito (meme explanation of Monads when they were the latest hype)?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> What other tasks could be automated today with the current LLMs performance? CEO speeches and pro-LLM blogs come to mind. Again, there is a vague focus on "updating dependencies" where allegedly some time was saved. Take that
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That is the mindset that the industry has drilled into programmers from 2015-2024 (everyone must learn how to code). This worked for OSS corporate employees who pretended to promote equity while always keeping their own leadership positions
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I find Python a pretty rigid and boring language. There are no macros, the syntax is infuriating, it is mostly OO these days. You can do introspection and access the variables at runtime (using a horrible syntax), but that's it. I don&
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The article speaks about an "ejection", where Google is completely silent on the topic. It proceeds by taking the Xorg majority opinion as gospel and depicting all reverts as necessary. This isn't journalism. How about asking
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Before Uber and Lyft destroyed the functioning taxi market, you got Mercedes by default for a traditional, regulated taxi in many EU countries. You didn't have to argue, interact with a surveillance company, interact with customer ser
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Helsing has an ex McKinsey (which ruined the German army) CEO. McKinsey is pushing AI: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/aerospace-and-defense/ou... Until we hear from captains who actually fly the aircraft, we
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They are part time and this is just another revolving door between the military and industry. They are literally there to sell their products (and brag about "having served"). What are other nepotistic initiatives? https:/&#
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is part time, they get a high rank immediately and will facilitate purchases from Palantir: https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-p... This is just another part of the revolving door that also e
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Is Wikipedia is correct, Scale AI does not work on AGI at all, but has clearly pivoted to surveillance and military applications like so many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_AI A drone army would come in ha

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