Ars publishes slop Dan Lyke / comment 0
So Ars Technica wrote a thing on the Scott Shambaugh: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (linked earlier), except that they used an LLM and it synthesized quotes that didn't actually get said or written. @mttaggart@infosec.exchange has a thread on this with receipts and archive links.
From this thread it appears that the slop publication was inadvertent from the editor's perspective.
On a Claude-y day Dan Lyke / comment 0
datarama @datarama@hachyderm.io
2010s: There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer.
2020s: There is no Claude, it's just someone else's code.
datarama @datarama@hachyderm.io
2010s: Old Man Yells At Cloud
2020s: Old Man Yells At Claude
Cognitive Debt Dan Lyke / comment 0
A programmer's loss of identity. I guess I'm lucky in that my association between mean and the Internet's notion of "programmer" kinda diverged when /. got funding, but this is an interesting meditation on how the general adoption of slop prompting as "programming" is changing the identity of those of us who think that reasoning about systems is important.
Via Baldur Bjarnason @baldur@toot.cafe
Meanwhile, Chris Dickinson @isntitvacant@hachyderm.io linked to Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building (PDF) (You may remember Naur as the "N" in BNF notation) in response to Simon Willison's acknowledgement that LLMs separate him from the model building:
I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.
In linking to Margaret Storey's How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (which also links to the Naur piece).
In response to Simon's note, Jed Brown @jedbrown@hachyderm.io wrote:
I believe the effect you describe becomes more insidious in larger projects, with distributed developer communities and bespoke domain knowledge. Such conditions are typical in research software/infrastructure (my domain), and the cost of recovering from such debt will often be intractable under public funding models (very lean; deliverables only for basic research, not maintenance and onboarding). Offloading to LLMs interferes not just with the cognitive processes of the "author", but also that of maintainers and other community members.
Unlike reports from ChatGPT Dan Lyke / comment 0
Unlike reports from ChatGPT, Google's "AI" seems smart enough to know that I'd have to drive my car to the car wash. Unless, of course, I was going to use a self-service bay.
First of all what did Oregon do to the Dan Lyke / comment 0
First of all, what did Oregon do to the person who named the "Oregon Grape" after it. Second, I now have Opinions about the landscape designer who recommended it.
It finally sprawled enough that Charlene said she wanted it out, and I suspect I'll be following runners all summer...
We had a Cuisinart electric tea kettle Dan Lyke / comment 0
We had a Cuisinart electric tea kettle that we loved. It died. We replaced it with the same one, and that started making weird annoying noises(!).
Replaced that with a used Veken off of Facebook Marketplace, but various interface elements of that suck. So we're still looking.
Are there differences in reliability between a $50 kettle and a $200 one, or are they all just bling?
Saw someone talk about how AI lets them Dan Lyke / comment 0
Saw someone talk about how AI lets them do things that would take their IT department $500k to implement, and maybe it's time to concede that Agile has been a total disaster?
We know how to build good software. We choose not to.
Come with me if you want to live Dan Lyke / comment 0
Kit Bashir @Unixbigot@aus.social
“Come with me if you want to live”
That old line.
“I said, come—“
“I KNOW. I’M THINKING.”
“What, uh, why, I mean, your destiny”
“Siddown, kid”
“There’s no time”
“You’re a time traveler. They could have sent you back with plenty of time to act, but they made it so you’re rushed and disoriented. Sit.”
“I don’t get it, you’re in danger…”
“The time war is a manufactured crisis. Keeps wages down, gives the people an external threat to distract from the real villains”
“Prove it”
I handed her a copy of “So, you’re a child soldier in a proxy war”, then tapped my earbud. “Control, the tip was genuine, I’ve got another one.”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_No_Time