There are lots of different species, with different climate requirements, growth habits, etc. Perhaps fire up your least-hated LLM and ask it to come up with a list depending on your location and intended use.

The Hive Mind has no business doing my thinking for me, because it seems the Lowest Common Denominator (or at least the Mean, then) drowns out the outliers, by sheer volume and algorithmic amplification. And the outliers are where progress is at (or doom, so you need to sift them critically, not by popularity or even your own ingrained biases).

Just last night over supper with some relations, one person bemoaned all the cat and off-the-rails preacher videos that get forwarded to her by well-meaning friends. I just smirked and told her "and then you ask me why I don't install Whatsapp".

People whose only accomplishment in life is philosophy may frown at people wanting to unplug from the collective thinking ... but all I can say is everyone's mileage varies.

Vibe coding is nothing new. I am right now looking at some component that the newest, youngest member of our team wrote. They basically took some existing code that did something similar to what was needed, and modified it just enough to "just work". Lots of nonfunctional code: it executes (and eats how many cycles), but has no effect on the result. Some identifiers have not been renamed so as to remain meaningful. Also some crude tack-ons that are pretty hard to understand and don't follow the rest of the pattern. In short, well on its way to be a maintenance nightmare.

Thankfully it is not too big, and I got the task to rewrite it to use a different library, which will require it to be fundamentally restructured in any case (it will be much simpler). Oh, the Pull Request will still show *some* relationship to the previous commit.

But it sort of reminds me of the way LLMs use existing code and mix-and-match it up without really understanding what's up or why something was done the way it was done.

Who says humans even need a life purpose? What if I just want to eat pizza, play Fortnite, and die of coronary disease?

I've gotten a fair amount of short-format videos shoved at me on social media that shall remain unnamed. Driven by a load of psychological bulldustery-driven exhortation. Be a better version of yourself. Be more socially engaging. Speak better. How to dress better, walk better, exercise better, eat better, sleep better. Make more money, rise up the career ladder, "win" at life. First world issues.

Some of it contradicting some other.

Enough, I say. Or rather: already too much. Leave me be. Because humans are not a one size fits all psychology. If I want to be better informed regarding some topic, I'll go search out information on it. I'm fatigued now by The Push. I certainly do not want to be pushed by another slopcial medAI monetization engine.

I don't care about Ruby one way or the other, but I'm baffled that people still consider Stackoverflow usage relevant in the LLM coding assistant age (which parasited off of Stackoverflow et al, acknowledged). SO gradually lost its utility to me, and with it my contributions to it, long before Copilot, what with outdated and ignorant answers and the skewing caused by gamification.

Well, it's a woman. But it seems a lot of us still subconsciously attribute such a cold and calculating stance to the traditional masculine role... She also has a D in law. Makes one wonder if to company plays so much in the legal field that they need a lawyer to (co) head it. Apparently so, she's responsible for policy while the co-CEO does tech.

Well, I like products that also work together simply and seamlessly with products from OTHER brands. (I mean, it's still an ideal in many cases, and unfortunately big brands all would like to have their own walled ghett... I mean, garden.)

I have a few-years-old Garmin, in my setup the charge lasts about 10 days. It warns you when you have roughly 2 days of charge left, so you can plan a charge session. It takes 2 hours to charge, slow charging only. I usually do it when I am at work in front of my computer: I've got the time on the screen and nothing important is happening (like sleeping) that I would want stats on. Yeah, I started wearing it during sleep when I got it, due to some medical issues I would like to keep tabs on. Usually the overnight HRV (heart rate variability, which you can read up on if unfamiliar) scores are my best indicator that I should slack off a bit and give the body more leeway to recover, that an infection or other issue may come to the surface, etc. (Sleep scores don't tell me much that I don't already know.) I about just take it off when showering; if the shower is post-workout, it goes along in the shower to get cleaned of sweat.

At least someone can walk "into" your office. For many, it is open office, with constant chitchat and video calls, people movement, billboards outside the window flashing, air conditioning never reaching a comfortable level and staying at it, and the incessant "fun" or "educational" activities to presumably sweeten the return to office roster. In our "modern" office they even played "relaxing" background music over the speakers, but on loop - day in, day out; thankfully that has now stopped. I'm grateful I'm on a hybrid roster, on office days we have all but given up to get anything urgent or deep done, and we go with the flow of having lots of coffee with colleagues and "networking" and "collaborating".

While another comment mentions The Italian Institute of National Physics (I don't know why them specifically), I believe it is just as plausible that we will be spätzleified, kartoffelpuffer-mit-apfelmusified, or even racletted.

It is named after Lee Child's fictitious ex-military investigator with a penchant to beat bad guys up, because of the camera: nothing escapes its keen observation.

So maybe the Orca word for human translates to something like "dumb kitten that can't swim or hunt very well".

The ones that got caught. Sampling bias and all that....

I'd be interested whether Americans are more dense or less dense than the rest of the planet's population. But I can't imagine a uniform density planet wide.

Wait, new "stuff" will come with documentation??? That is actually informative??? I thought the way these days is to make a long winded and rambling Udemy course that only touches the most basic and common theoretical use cases.

On a more serious note, LLMs will probably be able to take said material, either written or audiovisual, as training input.

But I guess in the end it will be just machines talking to each other, so they will make up their own "stuff".