Recent content by bigfield

Just more PR bullshit. Same as "our models are soooo dangerous we can't control them". At this point I'm just waiting for the bubble to pop and for the mania to end. We'll find out if the marginal productivity gains are worth the expense, but more importantly, the C-suite will shut the fuck...

They could just sell stuff to each other. Without a worker class they would stop mass producing the consumer goods that workers buy, and pivot to making robots and space yachts.

I thought you had a problem? Am I wrong?

The means vary by medium (Youtube, TV, print media etc.) but I'm pretty sure you and I can confirm the authenticity of our sources. I've been fooled by plain old satire, let alone deepfakes. Anyone can get fooled when we aren't being critical. Maybe this is a sign that you need to calibrate...

Sorry not sure what you're getting at?

But you didn't get the video from a trustworthy source like a reputable news outlet.

THe same way we always have. We reserve our trust for people and institutions that have earned it, not some random shitstirrers on social media.

There isn't one.

Writing code is not the hard part of programming.

No it's 100% LinkedIn bullshit. Maybe not worthy of r/LinkedInLunatics, but getting there. Mind you, I don't think you're completely wrong here. I have no doubt that Professional Outlook Operators are having a great time using LLMs to write their emails and slide decks. But when you write...

Dude I think you've caught Linkedin Brain.

Oh it's much worse than that. I have to wait for tier 1 support or tech account manager to read the support request, copy it into their chatbot, paste the vomit into their support app and send it to me, passing it off as if the human tech wrote it. Competent tech support shows up at tier 3...

I feel like this sometimes too. It usually means I need to go to bed. It's weird feeling to realise that we'll only ever experience the world from one set of sensory organs, and only for a tiny sliver of time, and that we cannot experience the vast majority of space and time.

Lately I've been getting vendor "support" from a team who are copy-pasting from a chatbot to reply to their support tickets. They're using a built-for-purpose marketed-for-purpose customer service chatbot platform, which they disclosed by accident by sending bot slop without reading it first...