Feyd

@Feyd@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are people who both get llm summaries of their emails and get llm to rewrite what they send. It’s amazing that anyone can’t see how incredibly stupid it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Believe it or not I can complain about more than one thing at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. None of what has been going on with diffusion models has been anything but hyper scaling. It’s not really making fundamental advances in technology it’s that they decided what they had at the scale they had makes convincing enough demos that the scam could start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been under the impressing that the little grey supporting text being little and grey is because the designer didn’t want it read but was required to put it somewhere. A dark pattern, if you will. Is it actually not intended that way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, I could just write it myself, instead of ending up like these guys sketch.dev/…/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like ORMs, but I’d rather use a battle tested ORM than some vibe coded data layer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a lot of stupid shit over my career but this AI zealotry just takes the cake.

  Everyone is so convinced these tools will make software get made faster, but I’m not even convinced that it gives even a modest benefit. For me personally they definitely don’t, and it seems to lead junior devs horribly astray as often as it helps speed them up.

  It feels like I’m not even looking at the same reality as everyone else at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or ought to be useful,

  Yes there is. No one wants to listen to us. I’ve had 3 levels of people above me ask me how I’ve incorporated AI into my workflow. I don’t get any pushback because my effectiveness is well known, yet the top down edict that everyone else use these shitty tools continues unabated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think steam is perfect, but they have shown over the years they will go above and beyond to make a good experience for the consumer, including tagging all kinds of negative things on games such as specific DRMs and drastically advancing the ability to run windows games on Linux

  No publicly traded company will ever develop that kind of track record even if you give it a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And why should anyone care what he says?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool and all, but the plan is to buy their way in by running at a massive loss then enshittify. Rather, even if that is not the current plan (it probably is), it will inevitably become the plan because it is a publicly traded company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds Endgame Expansion Moved Up as Game Suffers From 'Soft' Sales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even outside of the performance problems, it’s become clear the pattern is to release the base game which is ok, then eventually release an expansion that makes it feel like a complete experience. A lot of people that started with world or rise are just going to hold off for the expansion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli settlers attack West Bank Christian village⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re holding grudges along religious and ethnic lines literally forever there will never be peace until one group has destroyed all the others. I hope that’s not the fate of humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That they don’t know how it works is a lie. The mysticism and anthropomorphization is purposeful marketing. Pretending they don’t know how it works also lets them pretend that the fact they constantly lie is something that can be fixed rather than a fundamental aspect of the technology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t though. You put stuff in the search bar and it detected you were asking about unit conversion and have you an answer, without ever involving an llm. Are you being dense on purpose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do unit conversions with powertoys on windows, spotlight on mac and whatever they call the nifty search bar on various Linux desktop environments without even hitting the internet. Don’t discrete things like that with an llm inference is the most inefficient and stupid way to do them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is my entire problem with llms and llm based tools. I get especially salty when someone sends me output from one and I confirm it’s lying in 2 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooooooooof

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh great another centralized repository of data about people that definitely won’t be abused by bad actors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this as an absolute win

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the government even have a need for general LLMs?

  Will this stop them from spending our hard earned tax money on it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter how much more efficient we get. We already have the bandwidth to do everything we need to do but if gets vacuumed up into whatever rich people want it to. That will continue no matter how efficient we get unless society completely changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re wrong though. Things aren’t being prioritized in order of urgency. If they were, everyone in the planet would be focused on climate change. Instead, we have some places actively fighting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely incorrect. We’re ignoring preventative medical care and other urgent stuff to make rich people rich because we have a stupid economic system where rich people decide what is important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually the reason we want people to stop calling LLMs AI is because there has been a giant marketing machine constructed designed to (and successfully) tricking laymen into believing that LLMs are adjacent to and one tiny breakthrough away from becoming AGI.

  From another angle, your statement that AI is not a specific term is correct. Why, then, should we keep using it in common parlance when it just serves to confuse laymen? Let’s just use the more specific terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I am getting so sick and tired of people asking me for help then proceeding to rain unhelpful suggestions from their LLM upon me while I’m trying to think through their problem. You wouldn’t be asking for help if that stuff was helping you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of my projects wouldn’t have been finished without AI.

  This says way more about you than it says about AI tools

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t trust SaaS ones not because I don’t think they’re not doing all due diligence, but because a SaaS password manager is the juiciest of juicy targets and eventually someone will succeed in cracking one.

  I personally use KeepassXC, which is a local password manager. Most of the benefits of a SaaS one with some extra work handling sync and backup yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no… anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One user, who asked not to be identified, said it has been impossible to advance his project since the usage limits came into effect. “It just stopped the ability to make progress,” the user told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really nothing else that’s competitive with the capability set of Claude Code right now.”

  Lolz