Speaking of boy genius, but I can't help but think of the aliens universe's megacorporations lately.

Oh you better believe they spent more than 20k on that

I have a friend who wrote a sentence of two into an AI song generator and he couldn't wait to show me the sentimental song "he wrote" that "helped him put down the music in his head"

So perhaps these people heavily using AI have somehow gaslit themselves into this fantasy that they're really connected to this ghost in the machine and they're legit programmers doing good work

I had a package held up for over 2 weeks because my mail carrier (USPS) "saw a deer" and flagged it undeliverable NO ETC due to unleashed / dangerous animal.

I think it's also strongly due to the process that AI PRs are being rejected. For one, they usually have:

Little utility
Overly invasive changes
Bloviated PR text that sounds legit but it absolutely full of shit and self-justifying
Outright lies on metrics or testing
And an author that feels offended you "caught them" and degenerates into just a huge name calling event or a "no I dint" "yes you did" "OK, I did a little" "No you did a lot" "OK, fine I did a lot but its still worthwhile" "No its not your patch to make shiny materials slightly more correctly shiny (arguable) broke our entire rendering engine" (an actual godot PR)

So once you see the telltale signs of an AI PR, it becomes a burden to just see if "this time it's not crap".

It is shit more often than not and to save time and sanity of the real devs, the entire request is tossed into the trash

This

Fedex up 1 pt in afterhours trading, UPS holding even

Don't many of these models process tokens at like 5 / sec on something like a 5060ti?

I don't think he said he thought it was conscious but people are taking it that way because it's, ironically, also the most emotionally charged way to interpret this story

What's Sydney?

Also that's funny in a tragic comedy sort of way

I created an Indeed employer account and found that there are 18 candidates for every position available for a role I'm seeking. The majority (I'd wager 70%) all have 20+ years of experience.

It's shocking. I can speculate about the why but also... why bother.

Shockingly, a normal business (maybe we should say the usual business / company) does exactly this. It's a madhouse of unhinged agentic go go go

"ay least it does not commit sucicide any more."

wot

Does anyone else just not trust Amazon anymore for, ironically, books?

The place went from a great bargain book seller to a place that sells horrible reprints.

It's so /. to think of technology first, but you probably commit a few technically jailable offenses driving to the grocery store