MagicShel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Logically, you would be right. My practical experience is I waste a lot less time trying to google multiple explanations something because one by itself isn’t helping me figure it out, writing bugged PoC test code and thinking something is broken, sorting through a bunch of things that haven’t been relevant for 3 versions, etc.

  Of course the AI is trained on the same material we can an all find and read, but it does it orders of magnitude more quickly. The trade off is that it’s not always right, but neither am I and neither are most sources on the internet right in all circumstances. But it’s so fast and easy that I can iterate and evolve designs and understanding much more quickly than I could on my own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you are a much better developer than me, but to be fair I’ve had to teach myself everything using nothing but books and Google for thirty years. I’ve rarely had the luxury of working with someone who had the knowledge to mentor me, so I’ve probably missed some critical skills along the way.

  In a lot of ways, the AI fills that role because it’s better at answering questions than it is writing code. Earlier today it was explaining to me how a DOM selector could return a stale element in some cases because of a failing end to end test. It took a few back and forths with some code examples before I really understood why the selectors might not be working.

  It also suggested some code changes that I had to push back on because, even though the code had errors, the errors weren’t causing the problem. While building an array of promises I had awaited them, causing them to run serially instead of in parallel during Promise.all(). So you definitely have to know what you’re doing to avoid having the AI waste your time (or at least more time than it takes to push back).

  I’m still trying to debug it, but without the AI, I’d be googling the fuck out of typescript syntax, JavaScript idiosyncrasies, and a whole testing framework I’ve never seen before.

  So…

  if the only real value that AI provides is “you don’t need to know the libraries you’re using” …returns false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHUT THE FUCK UP!⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s 100% right and was only a little less professional than I think was deserved. A little too focused on the personal rather than the commit and wrongheadedness of the email itself. Anyone could submit a bad patch.

  Was there a similarly harsh invective sent to whomever approved the PR in the first place? I’d bet so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Many sites will just geo-block the UK. I think my Lemmy instance has, just like PornHub has blocked US states that have passed similar laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Within banking apps it has become the norm

  “The fucking fuck?” — America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If that was a 10% boost for you and you could’ve done it in 33 minutes without AI or experience, then my imposter syndrome has been right all along!

  I’d bet that would’ve take me a few days and maybe buying a reference book and starting with hello world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t do that well. What you have to do is ask it to help you leverage your existing development skills in an unfamiliar domain. I used it to help me write a python program to authenticate, pull and filter data from a GCP firestore database and create an XLSX with summary and detail sheets.

  I’ve never used Python before in my life. It took me about 4 hours. Of course I’ve been doing that sort of thing in Java for many years. Turned out I wrote that faster in Python than I could in Java. Configuring the connection to that database in Python was so simple compared to Java.

  The stuff it wrote was sometimes incomplete or wrong in subtle ways, but I could see the bits that didn’t make sense which helped me focus on those things and ask better questions to help me figure it out. I think the last hour was just me tweaking stuff by myself because I didn’t need help with it by that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really works!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do “gif”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to stay on Windows or MacOS or whatever floats your boat. Won’t bother anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't fool me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a joke. Until the arrival of people who didn’t know that. Much like Trump, himself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irresistable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Douglas Adams and HHGttG probably did more to inform my politics than any other single source, and it feels completely relevant today. If anything, Adams wasn’t cynical enough when writing Zaphod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand the gist, I’ll just say I’d like my job to be some stuff I’m good and some stuff that challenges me. When I do nothing but challenge myself, imposter syndrome sets in. When I do nothing but the stuff that I’m good at, it gets really boring. I need to find a better mix than I have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a very good engineer, but so much of my time is consumed fighting with Tekton pipelines and migrating testing frameworks and versions I barely have time to write code. But that’s because I can figure that stuff out when I have to. All the code is written by the people who can’t figure that stuff out.

  Why this isn’t two separate jobs I can’t understand. Let me do some stuff I’m good at rather than constantly fighting with things I’m not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planck units⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can what? You mean I can put down this bread knife and just have my house built for me? I think I’ll keep my sense of pride and accomplishment, sucker…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if they vibe coded it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to know the success rate of human agents in Mumbai (or some other outsourcing capital) for comparison.

  I absolutely think this is not a good fit for AI, but I feel like the presumption is a human would get it right nearly all of the time, and I’m just not confident that’s the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You son of a bitch, I’m in!

  Nah, I came here to make this comment and you already have it well in hand. It’s not really any different other than the marketing spin, though. Companies have always had bad code and hired specialists to sort it out. And over half of the specialists suck, too, and so the merry-go-round spins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Robots Could Fill $10 Trillion Labor Gap as World Ages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their plan is that we’ll earn money doing the jobs robots won’t or are too expensive to do. Giving them handjobs at breakfast, or fighting lions with a knife on PPV. Whatever we can do to give them a moment’s respite from the gray boredom of incomparable wealth, privilege, and pointlessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re disagreeing with my unserious suggestion? I just… okay. No. Micropenises aren’t a solution. I just don’t think there is one.

  If you want to disagree with that, let’s hear it. I have 15 and 13 year old daughters. Anyone can buy a $400 computer, install Linux, install AI, and undress people all day long. There is no legal restraint capable of stopping that, only punishing it.

  Shut down model distribution and it’ll move to torrent. Put the kids in the legal system and they are going to face lifelong consequences for 12-year-old assholery. (To be fair, victims often face long repercussions for being targeted, but that’s not imposed by the state which demands a higher standard.) Hold parents accountable and it will disproportionately impact families who spend more hours working and can’t supervise their kids 24/7.

  So I’m short on answers, but open to discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obviously not a serious suggestion, but the reality is the tools are out there and Pandora’s box can’t be put back on the shelf. Kids can’t be held accountable in a meaningful way. This is just an issue we are going to face basically forever now.

  There is a window of time during which most kids are little sociopaths and you can’t appeal to any better nature. They have the means and often no internal or external restraint. And so mutually assured destruction is my tongue in cheek answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only defense is to train AI to draw guys with micropenises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find myself thinking harder and learning more when I use AI. I’m constantly thinking what I can do to double check it. I constantly look at what it writes and consider whether it did the task I asked it to do or the task I need done.

  I’m on track to rewrite 25000 lines of code from one testing framework to another in 3 days, and I started out not knowing either framework and not having really written in typescript in years. And I’m pretty sure I can write the tests from scratch in my primary project that is just getting started.

  This one anecdote doesn’t disprove a study, of course, but it seems to me that the findings are not universally true for some reason. Whether it’s a matter of technique or brain chemistry, I don’t know. Ideally, people could be taught to use AI to improve their thinking rather than supplant it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking about something like this but I’m not gay or really much of a gamer any more, so… different webrings I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Signal groups for activism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m just weird, but basically nothing I do in an online capacity traces back to my IRL identity. (I do maintain a linked in for professional purposes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we had direct control over how our tax dollars were spent, about would be different pretty fast. Might not be better, but different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of my queries only call for oversimplified summaries. Either I’m simple like that or I google stupid shoot no one else would bother. A recent example:

  Are there butterflies or moths that don’t have mouths? (No but some have vestigial mouths connected to non-functioning digestive systems.) Good enough!

  That said, I’m very skeptical about answers if it’s anything I care about or need to act on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an AI enthusiast:

  [x] Doubt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no! What will I—Video Downloader. I’ll just watch offline at my leisure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, an even less efficient way to get answers than watching a fucking YouTube video…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used ChatGPT on something and got a response sourced from Reddit. I told it I’d be more likely to believe the answer if it told me it had simply made up the answer. It then provided better references.

  I don’t remember what it was but it was definitely something that would be answered by an expert on Reddit, but would also be answered by idiots on Reddit and I didn’t want to take chances.