crowsby

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The A.V. Club's AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that's sad. The AV Club was my go-to site for TV/Movie reviews for years, it's unfortunate to see them degrade into the same kind of low-value content farm that their (former) sister site ClickHole makes fun of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA Today and Other Newspapers Are Churning Out AI-Generated Sports Stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "I'm a helpful AI and automation tool," reads the Auto News Desk's bio. "I collect, analyze, and deliver information like high school sports scores and real estate transfers. My job is to help the newsroom deliver lots more useful information while freeing up their time to do important human-powered journalism."

  You know, it's bad enough that they're using these godawful services to the detriment of both writers and readers alike, but what I particularly dislike is that all these shitty LLMs are being humanized with biographies and cute little names. Like little cheery mascots celebrating the death of human-powered industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't hate JIRA, you hate your manager - Derek Jarvis' Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the author in that balancing actual work vs. meta-work like writing tickets/documentation/scoping tickets is always going to be a pain point regardless of the project management system in play. Jira can be fine in that regard, but it also gives PMs & managers an opportunity to tinker with things and "improve" workflows in the glorious name of adding value.

  It reminds me of the old quote about democracy: "Jira is the worst form of project management software except for all the others".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot believe that there are companies and non-wingnuts who are still actively using that site at this point. Like maybe at the start it was ha-ha funny watching him flail about with code printouts and unplugging random microservices leading to outages, but I feel like the moment he started actively funneling money to alt-right knuckleheads and human traffickers should have been enough of a kick in the pants for even folks heavily reliant on the platform to make their exit.