MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨seeing the person behind the piece⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can imagine feeling pressured to post often enough on the right topics and with the right voice. It becomes a positive feedback loop where your have to keep performing to maintain your audience, and in some cases income. I feel like that’s a driving factor to so much garbage on the internet — instead of posting when they have something to say, people look for ways to feed their audience. It makes the internet shittier all around — maybe the internet doesn’t need 10,000 hot takes on a subject, maybe just a handful would cover everything that should be said.

  But that’s just my hot take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy working towards finding ways of making AI more helpful, and that’s part of my job at work. Unfortunately, it feels like I’m constantly at war with everyone over the most effective way to do it. Management is looking to get 3x, 5x, 10x productivity boosts out of it. We’ve got AI reading the technical docs (which are partly generated by AI), requirements, and acceptance criteria, generating stories, implementing stories, and checking itself.

  And then I’m supposed to review the output to see if the code looks good. Well shit, the code looks good, but I don’t really know what the fuck was attempted. Like the documentation is hard reading, and I have to evaluate 13 classes of new code and tests. And every line of it looks like good code. I might as well be reviewing code for my bank — I don’t know exactly what it’s supposed to be doing or the constraints or business reasons, but the code looks clean and well structured and written to good standards.

  I’m trying to find the language to communicate to folks the right way to think about this. I’ve landed on this: Code is the most expressive version of telling a computer what to do. When you use natural language, there are necessarily ambiguities about what we are wanting to tell the computer — ambiguities which require interpretation.

  So when you read AI written code, you aren’t just reading AI implemented code (which is actually well written for what it is), but that implementation is based on an AI making tens or hundreds of tiny decisions you don’t see about what you mean to be done. The code hangs together based on the decisions that were made — decisions that are opaque and unquestioned; questions that undoubtedly would’ve led to deep thinking and discussion with the team if I knew about them.

  Anyway there’s this mindset in business: people are resources. They are means of turning requirements into code at a certain rate. I think this leads to the idea that individual expressions of thought or opinion are not valuable or are in fact even harmful. But these micro-decisions about what intent is and how to express it in code are where the magic happens. And without taking the time to think about those decisions, what am I evaluating code on?

  It looks pretty and it compiles and it does what it set out to do in the story. And then I think you find it elegantly solved the wrong problems while ignoring things that really matter — things that aren’t expressed in code.

  Shit. I ranted back rather than just making a little comment but it can be hard not to have an outlet at work to share these ideas because I can’t express too much disagreement with leadership lest I be seen as not a team player. Like I want to find ways to leverage AI for the most benefit and the least cost because it’s a hard puzzle to solve and I love solving such puzzles, but management comes along with MOAR AI! It doesn’t scale that way fuckheads! Now fuck off and let me see if I can bump productivity gains from 20% to maybe get another 5%. It’s not sexy but it’s real unlike your vibe-coded monstrosity.

  I think I might have gone from rant to Ted Talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck all brands. Put out good products, don’t trade on your name, because we know you’ll sell out quality for profit as soon as you hit one bad quarter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to know the prompts and parameters of their short stories, but no. I generate stories all the time as a sort of self-roleplay since I don’t have a tabletop troupe to play with. The stories are terrible and get worse with length. I only tolerate it because roleplaying already has a lot of bad writing and retconning, and I’m not looking for depth or a coherent plot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft: “Why is our AI so inferior? We trained it on the entire private code base for Windows and Teams!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  making their search engine better at returning relevant and accurate results

  This isn’t the goal. The goal is monetization. Giving good results is useless to them if they don’t make piles of money doing it.

  Which ironically means you’re getting 50% bullshit from Google as well, but AI delivers it much faster.

  (I’m agreeing with you if that isn’t clear.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … you killed my father. Prepare to die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 100% accurate. But just in case, could you have the map on you when you go around licking things? The resultant news article will be way funnier that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urine Luck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Point of interest, they didn’t all die. They still exist in a few places and private plantations, but they can’t be grown on an industrial scale any more.

  I want to try one someday. What could it cost, ten dollars?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urine Luck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What cat are you today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like I can’t tell because we’re missing Figure 11.3, so I can’t see A~3~B~0~.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dead Economy Theory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those violent bastards. Someone oughta kill them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascinating fasciation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. That could work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascinating fasciation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That inside handle on the double urinal is misplaced. You don’t want to be reaching for the handle with your dick-side hand and bump your neighbor. Holding hands is enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a forty-five year old photo of myself. My kids aren’t present on my social media. In fact I’m not on social media except as an anonymous person. So while I appreciate your message, you’re missing me with it.

  That’s partly why the analysis is hilarious to me. Political parties aren’t the same now. Incomes aren’t the same. I was “vandalizing” sand at a campground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s a wonderful laugh. Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, to me the important thing is the triggering of the memory. I wish the AI could’ve cleaned up the picture without adding a lot of its own artifacts. It is too sanitized. But it’s better than garbage quality picture of a picture. To me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. I don’t disparage that opinion. In a lot of cases I would agree. But not always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. Every once in a while I do appreciate this.

  Image

  Image

  You can completely tell which is the AI photo, yet both preserve the memory and the essence of the moment. I hate that I have just a shitty quality picture of a picture of that moment. The quality of the AI version was enough that even my mom, who probably took the photo, couldn’t tell the difference.

  I get that it isn’t the same but when all you have is a garbage version of a memory, I’m not sure or really matters whether the representation is the original garbage or something that makes you feel less regret over not having something better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨did the artemis II mission conclusively prove that the moon is made of cheese?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely but also it doesn’t get it that wrong without a push. I think there it’s too much assumption that AI gets everything wrong most the time when that’s not right either. I just want people to have a realistic understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨did the artemis II mission conclusively prove that the moon is made of cheese?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can almost guarantee the actual query is very specific and leading. But lol anyway. Well played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cruel Ferns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check this guy out who doesn’t get it. Someone let him know because I sure can’t won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Struggle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, you didn’t have to make it personal…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No lie, if I had that kind of money I’d pay my taxes in full and fuck off to the Bahamas with an entire year of calendar models, and still have money to hook my wife up with all the cabana boys she wants, and still have enough to create scholarships for huge numbers of kids to go to college and still have enough to invest in green energy and vaccines and low-cost insulin and still have enough money to pay for food and medicine assistance to underdeveloped nations and still…

  Well you get the idea. It’s a ridiculous amount of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get zapped, idiot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. All visual artifacts that predate the intention of the camera are AI. This is a well-known phenomenon, and I have an issue of me discussing it with Al Einstein and Ben Franklin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI can’t scheme or misbehave. The people selling it are 100% lying about what AI can do, but that doesn’t mean the people taking about how terrible AI is aren’t full of shit on occasion as well. There is so much misinformation oh both sides and combined with how strong opinions are on both sides conversation is borderline pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the context, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was he a bad dude? I thought OF was a way for sex workers to have greater agency. If karma is looking for suggestions, I have a long list of people more deserving in my estimation. That said, I don’t know this person and maybe he was bad, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showerthoughts on LLM being pimped as AI and forced everywhere.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshittification is about making money. The fact that AI is now faster and more capable of sifting through the garbage that is Google search thank human is a side effect, not a plan.

  Also, your plot really only works if everyone tells AI about their every weakness, and if AI could be relied upon to answer factually. The person who relies on AI to destroy their opponent is inevitable going to run into a case where AI is completely wrong, and they are going to destroy themselves.

  This might be an interesting story to tell in fiction, but I think trying to bring this about in real life would be self-sabotaging.

  You could save a lot of water and anxiety with shorter showers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brain Implants Let Paralyzed People Type Nearly as Fast as Smartphone Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds better then swiping on iOS.