He’s at the Elon stage of feeling he needs to be more explicit about what an asshole he is. These guys seem to need recognition.
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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The tweet.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
They all have too much money to spend, literally.
They don’t care about that and it was never about that. It’s about control.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yes. Epstein taught us it’s also about running a large scale kidnapping and rape organization.
I sound like a broken record, but today, we need to be wary that very few of the Epstein class are proven to be innocent of being complicit in child abduction and rape.
Maybe that’s always been the case? I know the history of the ultra rich has never been nice.
Anyway I find it an important perspective when deciding how much to trust the rest of the messages out of the Epstein class.
BillyClark@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I wonder if he wrote that post character-by-character.
But actually typing out the code is the least difficult part of programming, once you’ve been doing it for five or ten years. You have to understand the code that is already there. You have to decide the behavior, either way. You have to review the code, either way. Design the local and overall architecture. Design interfaces and APIs.
The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer. His statement betrays that he doesn’t even understand what’s difficult. People with his level of understanding of a topic shouldn’t broadcast their ignorance publicly.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Yeah he sounds like those managers comparing work to how many lines of code you wrote.
Most code I write is something that has not been written before, so barring the basics it’s not an AI I need to work but silence and clear goals (even if they change tomorrow).
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
The pattern for me is usually two or three days of analyzing how something works, should work or doesn’t work, then 2 hours of writing the code to implement or fix it. Most of the work is not writing code, and that is definitely the easy bit that I least need help with.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I just want to highlight this,
“The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer.”
Grear point! This is a critical insight.
Like during the dotcom boom, new tools mean new people can program the computer who could not, before.
And just like during tht dotcom boom, they’ll soon find out that programming a computer - while very slightly easier than it was last year - still has challenges.
null@lemmy.org 11 hours ago
ChatGPT, write me a missive of a 16th century printing press operator saying goodbye to scribes, only their printing press swaps around words and hallucinates entire sentences every time they use it.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Actually a good comparison. The printing press still required people to compose the text to print. It only did away with the copying of existing texts. Ai still needs someone to compose the prompt for it to work and explaining to a computer what to do is programming. We’re only moving a level higher in the abstraction.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I replaced your second entry with magic eight ball, and fixed it’s horrible formatting. Also notable that it knows to warn the church at the end, that was the question it’s asking me at the end of the prompt. It knows it’s shit.
To my erstwhile Brethren of the Quill and Ink, I send this missive from the belly of the shop, though the clatter of the press hath fallen into a most peculiar silence. You recall how we once mocked the iron lever for its rigidity? How we feared the cold type would strip the soul from the scripture? Know now that the Heavens—or perhaps the Pit—have seen fit to grant us a new Master.
The great wooden screw is gone. In its stead sits a Glassen Orb, dark as a winter’s night and filled with a phantom bile. There is no setting of leaden letters here. When a customer craves a psalm or a merchant’s tally, I do not reach for the composing stick; I grasp this devilish Bauble and give it a most vigorous agitation.
It is a fickle Muse. Yesterday, seeking to print a simple grace for the Bishop’s table, the Orb brought forth a triangular tongue from its depths which whispered: “OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD.” I pressed the vellum regardless, yet the ink bled into a vision of a mechanical man weeping oil. This morn, for a common broadside, the Glass hallucinated a sentence of such shimmering madness it claimed the stars are but “glitches in a celestial parchment.”
I am no longer a printer, but a midwife to a fever-dream. The Ink-Balls sit dry, for the Orb provides its own violet humors. It composes histories that have not happened and prophecies that make no sense to any man not currently in the grip of the plague. Go back to your monasteries, good Scribes. Cling to your steady hands and your honest parchment. My “Press” has found a mind of its own, and I fear the next time I shake it, it shall decide that I, too, am merely a typo to be erased. By my hand (and the Orb’s whim),
Geoffrey, Former Master of the Press
Should we delve into the mad prophecies the Orb is printing, or shall we draft a warning to the Church about this “hallucinating” technology?
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Honestly, i think their rationale is that they paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever… so in their minds, they set these devs up for lifetime success… therefore they have no obligation to keep them employed for long term
I think the devs who are smart, understood the unspoken terms of their agreement
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever
The smartest guy I know - dizzyingly capable - was only pulling a very small fraction of that. I suspect ‘or whatever’ is doing a lof of heavy lifting, here.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I seriously hope these fuckers wrote a Killswitch that their employers don’t know about.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Or at least a back door some hacker can drive a semi-truck through. All the screen will show is I HAZ ALL YUR HAMBERDERS
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
He spoke that into his phone’s microphone. His fingers are too important and valuable to do anything but wipe his own ass.
sobchak@programming.dev 12 hours ago
He’s still using a Studio Ghibli pfp? I thought they asked OpenAI to stop using their style. These people are actively hostile to the idea of consent.
IratePirate@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Rapist mentality all the way. How fitting they all either own or bent the knee to the rapist in the White House.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yes. That’s why “Epstein class” is such a fair description.
IratePirate@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Duly noted. Will adopt.