In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.

I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?

I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).

(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)

It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.

It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition... .... it really creeps up on you, because there's so much functionality in cheap, small packages today.

The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.

And that too. But even with fully validated input, LLMs stay unreliable. The whole approach is fundamentally unsuitable for most things it gets advertised as a solution to.

We should have determinedly started that about 45 years ago when the Science was solid. But guess what, some complete assholes and traitors to the human race needed to get richer.

I am by now convinced that all those "geoengineering" primarily get funded, so that the traitors to all the human race that are behind climate change still not getting addressed adequately, can keep getting richer. These projects will will not do and cannot do enough in time.

I applaud your efforts. It is interesting though that efforts by a single person seem to be enough to show up in the results. But yes, this research basically says that only moderate effort is needed and filtering poison out is basically impossible due to the extreme effort that would need.

Ah, no? It is _impossible_ to make them reliable and there is mathematical proof for that.

Of course, it is absolutely no surprise to find one more reason why this tech sucks.

Ok, so it depends on how much the service provider wants to hide that they are screwing you. Got it. Would probably get customer protection involved here. Not that some Telcos try to pull other shit in Europe as well.

Are you seriously asking that question? Dude, switch on your brain.

Possibly. There is also the occasional bad batch where some economics graduate moron caused things to be made cheaper than possible.

It is a mindless fetish. It goes from "we need to grow" to "we need to reduce headcount" and back again. It is not rational in any way and is probably all about giving the appearance of "doing something".

I consider Spectre and Meltdown the start of where their CPUs became really bad. Because, like all other CPU makers, Intel was warned about that risk. While AMD was at least careful (and got worse performance as a result, but a far more difficult to exploit vulnerability), Intel just went for top speed, knowing very well that their customers could pay the price. But that "speed crown" was everything to them.