Like, do I really want my dead father posting? How is that going to make me feel? The people who thought this up are heartless bastards.I hope their parents all die and they have to watch their stupid-ass AI post shit. What the fuck you fucking morons.

...it can't get much worse.

"Amodei painted a potential "nightmare" scenario that AI could bring to society if not properly checked, laying out a future in which 10 million people -- 7 million in Silicon Valley and the rest scattered elsewhere -- could "decouple" from the rest of society, enjoying as much as 50% GPD growth while others were left behind."

Everything tech has two potential outcomes in the United States - nightmare or bubble burst. There's not a happy in-between unless your name is Torvalds.

If you look at ANYTHING that has had any kind of lifespan it's enshittificated into something terrible. Windows is a schizophrenic mess. Social media is a cesspool if idiots and attentions seekers and is literally bad for your health. The web became centralized in the hands of few big players, with Amazon, Google, and so on, monopolizing a space and driving out others. All UI became HTML, CSS, and JS whether that was a good idea or not for the application. Smartphones are literally an enshittification device, designed to addict you, erode your mental health, and keep you from being human. Ads are everywhere and hard to get rid of. "Smart" devices relay your metrics and spy on you. What general purpose tech has gone well? On the other end we have block chain that was the previous poster child for the Next Big Thing and went nowhere. I don't think AI is in this category of potential failure though.

Pretty much, I expect AI to allow a very small percent of the population (less then .1%) to control almost all the wealth, and consequently in the US with the way money equals influence, all the power, and the rest of the people will be scrabbling to get by the best they can and that's going to be pretty nightmare. Eventually it'll look like Last Of Us with droves of people piling up on the walls of the elite's fortresses being mowed down by AI security drones as they try to get a few minutes of precious electricity to charge, yes, their smartphone, so the can get that hit of dopamine one more time.

The one part of this that might prove interesting is in the US the non-1%er's are armed to the teeth, and once they stop turning on themselves, it's going to get interesting quick. Those AI security drones better get refined ASAP, they're going to need them.

I don't understand why heavy users aren't charged more, like water. In my town water usage is tiered, and those upper tiers charge you a lot more per gallon than if you conserve. C'mon, electric company, do the same, and make those upper tiers juicy and you can finance yourself into great infrastructure upgrades (think power lines in forests that for some reason catch fire frequently). Those AI companies are flush with inventory money, they can afford it, fleece the fuck of them for taking our electricity to do their stupid AI shit.

Where's Bernhard Goetz when you need him?

Think how productive you are with AI! Now you're a 10x programmer! Keep that code flowing. Don't worry about security, that's a job for someone else, you're just suppose to crank out code.

I freaking fell for that, like an idiot. I distinctly remember a conversation with my brother in law who is a truck driver who literally guffawed when I told him about all the AI driving research and the prospect of self driving trucks.

I learned my lesson. Fool me once...

Name names you stupid fucker if you're going to say shit like that. Who is making $10 million fucking around with LLMs to make products for customers? Tell me so I can avoid them.

I use LLMs a *lot* in my work. I've been programming since 1989, and the LLMs are certainly useful, but saying you can build software with "vibes" is an incompetent level of understanding of what makes software that is morally acceptable to sell to customers.

Get an LLM to replace Garry Tan, because for sure that wouldn't be worse.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino

I liked it. I'd say it was indirectly calling Melania a pig, but I don't think Trump fucks her. She seems to barely be able to stand him touching her. So, must be real pigs. I even suspect they're piglets.

Honest question. A lot of value comes from the StackOverflow answers. When a new technology comes out, and most people have migrated to LLMs for answers, where will the LLMs get new answers? If people are not discussing it on StackOverflow and elsewhere, would it just be docs? That could be problematic, since docs can be sketchy or non-existent. Will StackOverflow still exist in a lesser capacity to get answers on the absolute latest technology?

LOL! The funny part is you think it's obviously humorous. Um, no, we're talking Trumpers here. They believe all sorts of crap - Pizza Gate, QAnon ravings, humans don't cause climate problems, Trump makes a good president, and so on. But I agree having it be illegal is a bad idea - I'm just saying, it's some great propaganda for the lower half of the bell curve.

I thought so" meant I didn't expect to get any substantive, which turned out to be true.

I've been doing my own research, on my own, and more importantly, tasked by my employer, since the early LLMs. There's place where it can be somewhat useful, mostly for repetitive boilerplate type tasks, then there are claims being made, like yours, that I'd really like to see what's being done because it doesn't line up with my experience, and the experience of my cohorts. See my other post here for my opinion.

I could sit here and tell you all stupid crap I've gone through to try and get useful results from LLMs, but the end result is now, multiple times and at non-trivial expense, when the LLMs have been trained against our own codebase, it still doesn't create results that a junior dev can use effectively. So instead it creates half-wrong crap that I have to fix. Instead I could have written it myself, in freaking Notepad++, and it would have been more correct.

I don't have willful ignorance, I have disappointment and anger over over-hyped tech that fails to deliver. Will it get better, sure, but maybe? Or will this be the same stupid crap where a manager creates something in the LLM (like "code-free" tools of the past) that I end up either spending inordinate amounts of time fixing, or just do it myself.

'nough said.

I thought so.

Cool - show me something. Show me that happening, any way you want. Even show it to me failing admirably with it better on the next try.