@0xabad1dea This is a wonderfully written rant 😍

@0xabad1dea Thanks for sharing. It's an amazing read 🤓

@0xabad1dea: I'll just note that Bitcoin wasn't just taken over by turbo-libertarians; it was explicitly built on their ideals. That's a big part of why the technology sucks as hard as it does.

@0xabad1dea "lying as a fallback" is the perfect phrase to describe why i hate the usage of LLMs in coding and research.

@0xabad1dea hey @3psboyd - i found you a FRIEND! (no but for real, eevee's great and this post is also great and you should read it because you'll find camaraderie n stuff)

@0xabad1dea "[...] it could be bottled dragon farts for all they care [...]"

I (a dragon) laughed.

@0xabad1dea yay eevee does another awesome blogpost

@0xabad1dea huh what there is no bank transfer ("wiring money") in the us?

dafuq

I guess the lack of english vocabulary for that is telling

@0xabad1dea Reading that made me think "You know, at least tulips are pretty flowers. Makes more sense than the bubbles of nonsense we get these days".

@0xabad1dea This is the best rant on this topic I have read. Superb stuff.

@0xabad1dea A really great article, but I disagree on one point:

They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different job. I’m not interested in managing

That's not management, that's terrible management. Good management is a conversation about priorities with people who have coalface knowledge and can help frame the problem sensibly. Good management involves working to help your reports develop and become more productive. This is like managing an outsourced workforce from the lowest bidder with 100% turnover each week. Which isn't fun even if you find management rewarding.

And I didn’t cherry-pick this example! They chose it!

And this isn't the only example of this. The Amazon equivalent had a long blog post where they waxed lyrical about some Python code that would find a set of primes. The algorithm was worse than the one that I came up with when I was 10 and implemented in QBASIC (which was worse than the one Eratosthenes came up with 2000 or so years earlier). This was terrible code. Code that I would have been faintly embarrassed to have written when I was a teenager. And that was their cherry-picked example of how amazing it is. And that seems to be the case with all of these bullshit generators: even the cherry picked examples of how amazing they are turn out to be pretty bad if you give them more than a cursory glance. Which shows how much the people selling them value attention to detail.

@0xabad1dea I'm reading now and will probably have actual thoughts on it but right now it's warming my heart to see someone properly use the HTML5 <ASIDE> tag.

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Perfect 😆: "The most obnoxious people like to talk about how Stable Diffusion is “democratizing art” and that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. There is no fucking King of Art decreeing who is allowed to draw and who isn’t. You could do it. You could do it right now. But it’s hard, so you’d rather spend that time crying on Twitter about how unfair it is that learning a skill takes work and thank god the computer can give you all of the admiration with none of the effort now."

@0xabad1dea @whvholst Subscribed to their Atom feed!

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"It begins to feel like a broad celebration of mediocrity. Finally, society says, with a huge sigh of relief. I don’t have to write a letter to my granddaughter. I don’t have to write a three-line fetch call. I don’t have to know anything, care about what I’m doing, or even have an opinion."

Drette ça!

@0xabad1dea this very one-Cherub-choir enjoyed to be preached at very much. 谢谢

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Thanks for this. Also has a useful tip:

If you are unfortunate enough to have a recent Pixel phone, it's at least possible to reliably turn all this crap off — go to System > Apps > Show all apps, use the three-dots menu to "Show system", tap "AICore", and disable it.

@0xabad1dea I had some thoughts and they were too long for a Mastodon reply post

@0xabad1dea this is just my thoughts as well. So many people BEG me to try using AI for work but I'm not having it. Yeah, sure, it does solve common simple tasks rather well. But I don't do common simple tasks. I mostly do things no one has done before, and I enjoy the fact that I made this myself and got a bit smarter in the process, too.

@0xabad1dea Somehow this made me think of that 1995 movie The American President?

https://youtu.be/HKTqS4bXugg?si=w22wf0kAZ1LtghS7&t=132

The People are lonely and looking for a genuine connection and will accept any simulacra: porn, soap opera, view counts, retweet counts, follower counts, LLM "AI" girlfriends…

They have been fleeced and deceived like sheep without a shepherd, and they don't know the difference anymore

All these middlemen and meddlemen keep pushing the next "Whatever" which they barely understand, don't care about, and got free or nearly free, but will sell for a profit as many times as possible.

Middlemen, managers, lobbyists, money exchangers, bankers, etc… all meddlemen are #WealthExtractors, their contribution to anything is negative

@0xabad1dea This is a great long read about the absurd LLM situation. I like the pragmatic coder's perspective. The paragraph about VSCode's 'adding quotes' behaviour as an irritating break of coding flow hit home. Going to turn that off if I can. I feel the same about having copilot flash lines of code where they don't belong. Only about 1 in 5 times does it actually help. Time to disable that, too.

@ancoghlan yeah the bubbleness of tulips is overstated because while there were speculative middlemen there also absolutely were a lot of customers buying them with the intent to grow and display them

@blitter there technically is but it takes a week and costs $30

@0xabad1dea @blitter there is, ACH; the problem is banks consider it a premium/business service to be able to fucking send people money

@blitter @0xabad1dea I’ll never understand why the US banking system is so antiquated but it is amusing when the startups adding layers to make it less antiquated try to launch in the rest of the world and everyone looks confused because we can already do everything from our phones via real banks.

@0xabad1dea @blitter we do have zelle now, which is instant and free, and has been adopted by most banks and credit unions.

But it’s ridiculous that it took 30 years to get here.

@SteffoSpieler market opportunity

@raktheundead I see it as a tragic case of having been designed by a sincere idealist and then adopted by people who agree so far as “fuck banks! fuck regulations! fuck the surveillance state!” without following all the way through to the deep anarchist lore of “let us join in communion with all the human race and live radiant with peace, love, and mutual cooperation”