agent orchestration Dan Lyke / comment 0
highly praised and little read @hannah@posts.rat.pictures
Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work
Progress OTD Dan Lyke / comment 0
"If these companies want quality data, then they should offer quality contracts."
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
Via.
Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance #28224 . Via.
Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
So to summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost ten thousand dollars, all applications will be forever be frozen to about 2025 design and implementation (because that’s what vibe coding outputs), power to run the computer will be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer in the first place.
Explain to me again how this is progress?
Take the shot Dan Lyke / comment 0
Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
Quantifying AI in stories Dan Lyke / comment 0
A compact set of 30 core narrative features captures much of this signal: AI stories over-explain themes and favor tidy, single-track plots while human stories frame protagonist’ choices as more morally ambiguous and have increased temporal complexity (e.g., flashbacks, nonlinear structure). Per-model fingerprint features enable six-way attribution: for example, Claude produces notably flat event escalation, GPT over-indexes on dream sequences, and Gemini defaults to external character description. We find that AI-generated stories cluster in a shared region of narrative space, while human-authored stories exhibit greater diversity. More broadly, these results suggest that differences in underlying narrative construction, not just writing style, can be used to separate human-written original works from AI-generated fiction.
Via LinkedIn: The Shape of Enshittification: Books That No Longer Get Read, An Internet That No Longer Gets Surfed, & The End of Social Media As We Know It..., which is a pitch piece for Return to Real: The Last Human Advantage in an Age of Artificial Everything by Ryan Levesque, but which suffers from LinkedIn-ness so deeply that I can't tell if it's AI generated...
Left Antisemitism Dan Lyke / comment 0
I saw the video in which Weiner was badgered out of the Trans Pride March (an event he's attended for 22 years, since its inception), didn't think it needed amplifying, and I'm a fan of Scott Weiner's legislative accomplishments, but I think this is a useful perspective:
Assigned Media: Scott Wiener’s Viral Harassment is What Left Antisemitism Looks Like
warm gemini sound Dan Lyke / comment 0
Andy Wingo @wingo@mastodon.social
an't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"
People around me vibe coding has taught Dan Lyke / comment 0
People around me vibe coding has taught me that all of those ridiculous tests that checked every stupid arithmetic operator are actually necessary and useful.
REI got screwed by Meta AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
Interesting LinkedIn article about how REI's nonsensical AI generated two handlebar bicycle ad was the result of obscure Meta controls that are opt-out.
They lied about "no water" Dan Lyke / comment 0
Data center that vowed to avoid Colorado River water is now suing for 260 million gallons per year
KPBS reported that Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing has gone to court to secure 260 million gallons of water per year from the Imperial Irrigation District — about 750,000 gallons a day — for a planned artificial intelligence complex in the desert.