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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns.

This seems crazy high??? I don't use LLMs, but whenever SaaS usage is brought up, there's usually a giant long tail of casual users, if its a 5% thing then either Copilot has way more power users than I expect, or way less users total than I expect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like it's been downranked into hell for being too mean to the AI guys, which is weird when its literally an AI guy promoting his AI generated trash.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This caused me to reconsider something. I had kinda assumed that everything sucks because the bar of quality for software is so low, and that's pulling it down for every other field now that software proliferated into eating the world.

But I didn't examine that the relationship could work in both directions. Software sucks some of the time, but it doesn't excuse shit like how Crowdstrike can still be in business, and we should probably look into what's caused us to develop the attitude about not caring that shit is shit, just because the shit salesmen told us it'll be less shit in the future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't like to speculate, but it seems tptacek is not happy about it for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291623

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We already have AI summarized Dune, it's called WH40k.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://www.gauntletai.com/

10 weeks of 100h work weeks so you can have a 98% (publically disclosed) chance of being denied a Golden Ticket to the AI factory.

This is very weird but not particularly notable, other than that these guys have apparently been YC funded in 2017, and I can't find anything about the company in the directory: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Summer+2017... until I looked at the CEO's name. ~~Lambda School~~ ~~Bloom Institute~~ GauntletAI's latest pivot is asking for 1000 hours of voluntary unpaid labour.

e: apologies for the vaguepost, I could've sworn I put down the name, but in any case, it's the return of PG's favourite guy not named Sam Altman, Austen Allred

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being paid to reddit has to be the most pathetic thing you can do, and I say that as someone who once reddited unpaid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This almost reads like tptacek doesn't understand why lucidity's piece a year ago was so effective and tried to write it from the opposite angle by punching down instead of punching up.

I'd have thought that a guy who writes on the internet like it's a competition sport could recognize the obvious problems of this, but maybe I'm just a vibe coding Youtuber.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Being the worst and the biggest studios aren't unrelated concepts, they're the biggest because they're the worst.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't get it, how is every one of the most touted people in the AI space among the least credible people in the industry.

Like literally every time its a person whose name I recognize from something else they've done, that something else is something I hate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Reminds me something F.D. Signifier said on a music podcast.

Progressives are losing the cultural war in a lot of ways, but they'll always need us because we're the ones pushing the boundaries on art, and it turns out, no matter how ghoulish people want to act, everyone has genuine love of fucking awesome art. The true loss condition is being captured by the tools of the master.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Listen, I'm just saying that this never would've happened with hg.

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