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- Comment on Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website 1 week ago:
Wow, that sure is something else.
- Comment on Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang 2 weeks ago:
This genuinely made me do an IRL spit take, holy shit.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
Same, but they did set up a self hosted instance for us to use and, tbh, it works pretty good.
I think it’s s good tool specifically for helping when you dunno what’s going on, to help with brainstorming or exploring different solutions. Getting recommended names of tools, finding out “how do other people solve this”, generating documentation, etc
But for very straightforward tasks where you already know what you are doing, it’s not helpful, you already know what code you are going to write anyways.
Right tool for the right job.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
I primarily use GPT style tools like ChatGPT and whatnot.
The key is, rather than asking it to generate code, specify that you dont want code and instead want it to help you work through the solution. Tell it to ask you meaningful questions about your problem and effectively act as a rubber duck
Then, after you’ve chosen a solution with it, ask it to generate code based on all the above convo.
This will typically produce way higher quality results and helps avoid potential X/Y problems.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
For sure, much like how a cab driver has to know how to drive a cab.
AI is absolutely a “garbage in, garbage out” tool. Just having it doesn’t automatically make you good at your job.
The difference in someone who can weild it well vs someone who has no idea what they are doing is palpable.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
Good, fire 2 devs out of 3.
Companies that do this will fail.
Successful companies respond to this by hiring more developers.
Consider the taxi cab driver:
With the invention if the automobile, cab drivers could do their job way faster and way cheaper.
Did companies fire drivers in response? God no. They hired more
Why?
Because they became more affordable, less wealthy clients could now afford their services which means demand went way way up
If you can do your work for half the cost, usually demand goes up by way more than x2 because as you go down in wealth levels of target demographics, your pool of clients exponentially grows
If I go from “it costs me 100k to make you a website” to “it costs me 50k to make you a website” my pool of possible clients more than doubles
Which means… you need to hire more devs asap to start matching this newfound level of demand
If you fire devs when your demand is about to skyrocket, you fucked up bad lol
- Comment on A police officer just dropped off our water bill 5 weeks ago:
Maybe the post office fucked something up so he has to deliver it?
How would a cop even acquire your mail in the first place?
All I can guess is like, the cop had to pick up the job cuz someone else was sick or something???
Weird lol.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
Wait til you realize that’s just what art literally is…
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
You skipped possibility 3, which is actively happening ing:
Advancements in tech enable us to produce results at a much much cheaper cost
Which us happening with diffusion style LLMs that simultaneously cost less to train, cost less to run, but also produce both faster abd better quality outputs.
That’s a big part people forget about AI: it’s a feedback loop of improvement as soon as you can start using AI to develop AI
And we are past that mark now, most developers have easy access to AI as a tool to improve their performance, and AI is made by… software developers
So you get this loop where as we make better and better AIs, we get better and better at making AIs with the AIs…
It’s incredibly likely the new diffusion AI systems were built with AI assisting in the process, enabling them to make a whole new tech innovation much faster and easier.
We are now in the uptick of the singularity, and have been for about a year now.
Same goes for hardware, it’s very likely now that mvidia has AI incorporating into their production process, using it for micro optimizations in its architectures and designs.
And then those same optimized gpus turn around and get used to train and run even better AIs…
In 5-10 years we will look back on 2024 as the start of a very wild ride.
Remember we are just now in the “computers that take up entire warehouses” step of the tech.
Remember that in the 80s, a “computer” cost a fortune, took tonnes of resources, multiple people to run it, took up an entire room, was slow as hell, and could only do basic stuff.
But now 40 years later they fit in our pockets and are (non hyoerbole) billions of times faster.
I think by 2035 we will be looking at AI as something mass produced for consumers to just go in their homes, you go to best buy and compare different AI boxes to pick which one you are gonna get for your home.
We are still at the stage of people in the 80s looking at computers and pondering “why would someone even need to use this, why would someone put one in their house, let alone their pocket”
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s just not something exposed to you to see
But under the hood it very much does shift gears depending on what you ask it to do
It’s why gpt can do stuff now like analyze contents of images, basic OCR, but also generate images too.
Yet it can also do math, talk about biology, give relationship advice…
I believe open AI called the term “specialists” or something vaguely like that, at the time.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
I am indeed getting more time off for PD
We delivered on a project 2 weeks ahead of schedule so we’re giving raises, I got a promotion, and we were given 2 weeks to just do some chill PD at our own discretion as a reward. All paid on the clock.
Some companies are indeed pretty cool about it.
I was asked to give some demos and do some chats with folks to spread info in how we had such success, and they were pretty fond of my methodology.
At its core delivering faster does translate to getting bigger bonuses abd kickbacks at my company, so yeah there’s actual financial incentive for me to perform way better.
You also are ignoring the stress thing. If I can work 3x better, I can also just deliver in almost the same time, but spend all that freed up time instead focusing on quality, polishing the product up, documentation, double checking my work, testing, etc.
Instead of scraping past the deadline by the skin of our teeth, we hit the deadline with a week or 2 to spare and spent a buncha extra time going over everything with a fine tooth comb twice to make sure we didn’t miss anything.
And instead of mad rushing 8 hours straight, it’s just generally more casual. I can take it slower and do the same work but just in a less stressed out way. So I’m literally just physically working less hard, I feel happier, and overall my mood is way better, and I have way more energy.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile a huge chunk of the software industry is now heavily using this “dead end” technology 👀
I work in a pretty massive tech company (think, the type that frequently acquires other smaller ones and absorbs them)
Everyone I know here is using it. A lot.
However my company also has tonnes of dedicated sessions and paid time to instruct it’s employees on how to use it well, and to get good value out of it, abd the pitfalls it can have
So yeah turns out if you teach your employees how to use a tool, they start using it.
I’d say LLMs have made me about 3x as efficient or so at my job.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
They did that awhile ago, it was a big feature if gpt 3
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
We already did this like a year ago mate. That was like v3 of gpt
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
GasFishing
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
The fact thats only as far back as you went is sorta my point.
Yall dont remember before that, when Trump last was president as well, the crowds getting kettlepotted and gassed out, the peaceful crowds getting dispersed just so trump could take a photo op?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
And it’s up to the people in the 50 State’s National Guard, and law enforcement, and the military to decide between the constitution and fascism.
Okay but you do remember we were here before and the national guard and law enforcement extremely made it very clear who’s side they were on… right?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
The fuck is protesting going to do at this point, lets be real here. Why do you think a protest has any sway of the bulldozer that is happening in the US Legal system?
Protesting is just not gonna accomplish much, a little bit more than that is needed I think.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
I mean it matters here, as it’s literally the topic being actively discussed by the person who literally asked, so obviously it matters to them lol
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Sure but my point is, if it was the scenario you described, then Elon would be talking about the right kind of denormalization problem.
Denormalization due to multiple different storing their own copies if the same data, in different formats worse yet, would actually be the kind if problem he’s tweeting about.
As opposed to a composite key on one table which means him being an ultracrepidarian, as usual.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Okay but if that happens, musk is right that that’s a bit of a denormalization issue that mayne needs resolving.
SSNs should be stored as strings without any hyphen or additional markup, nothing else.
- Storing as a number can cause issues if you ever wanna support trailing zeros
- any “styling” like hyphens should be handled by a consuming front end system, you want only the important data in the DB to maximize query times
It’s more likely though it’s just a composite key…
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 2 months ago:
sent American technology stocks plummeting
Oh yeah, thats what did it, totally
- Comment on THE HECK? Documents show FEMA official ordered workers to ignore houses with Trump signs 5 months ago:
If true, sounds kinda personal and will prolly result in repercussions.
But the fact so many MAGA idiots were acting violent towards FEMA operatives prolly is enough to justify it. Can’t blame em, if a group of people are actively fighting against your help then it’s better to not waste time/energy/safety on em.
I heard shit about MAGA idiots pulling out guns on FEMA folks, that’s fucked up lol
- Comment on static website generator 6 months ago:
I use Hugo, it’s not super complicated.
You basically just define templates in pseudo html for common content (header, nav panel, footer, etc), and then you wrote your articles in markdown and Hugo combines the two and outputs actual html files.
You also have a content folder for js, css, and images which get output as is.
That’s about all there is to it, it’s a pretty minimalist static site generator.
Hosting wise you can just put it on github pages for free.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 6 months ago:
Well yeah, I’d hope so, that’s the entire point.
Catcha’s data collection always was with the intent for training ai on these skills. That’s “the point” of them.
It’s reasonable to expect that the older version of captchas can now be beaten by modern ai, because they’re often literally trained on that exact data to beat it.
Captcha effectively is free to use on websites as a tool because the data collection is the “payment”, they then license that data out to people like OpenAI to train with for stuff like image recognition.
It’s why ai is progressing so fast, captchas are one of humanity’s long term collected data silos that are very full now.
We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 6 months ago:
Not quite.
It’s mostly wisdom of the crowd, as it always has been.
As long as you mostly click the same squares most other people click, you pass.
You often at random get 2-3 images because 2 of them are actual checks, but the third is a new image that you auto pass and they’re using it to gather data on what the average clicks are on it.