Yeah same. Once I visited Niagara falls with my bro and we were kind of into poker at the time so we each took 100$ and went to the casino. Got fleeced by a texan looking old guy with a cowboy hat then we went back to our hotel lol. I have many vices but apparently gambling isn’t one of them.
I find it interesting because it forces lots of people to think at least superficially about how they would define consciousness and its boundaries.
Does it need a substrate? Does the substrate need to be constantly active? Does it need to be organic? Does it need to be able to do high level computation and thinking? Any answer you may give is unfalsifiable so it’s not like it’s a scientific subject anyway. It’s all vibes.
I like that it gives anyone the opportunity to wrestle with some hardcore metaphysics.
I think it’s always fine to use AI stuff as intermediary material, but almost never as finished product unless you specifically need something that feels samey and average.
For world building it’s pretty cool cause you can finally visualize that city that you’ve spent time imagining in detail, and use that to sharpen your description of it or spot incongruities. And for writing in general there’s nothing wrong with story boarding scenes and characters to ground your writing if you have more of a visual mind. Anything that helps you on your specific craft without bogging down the quality of the finished piece.
Yes but there is no reason to think that they wouldn’t fall roughly in the same distribution.
I think the studio is taking the right lesson, but it doesn’t necessarily apply to the tech industry.
Software is good when it is average (standard, unsurprising), while entertainment is good when it is out of distribution. By definition, you can’t statistically sample good art and get good art at the output.
What’s fascinating about this conversation is … how do people think software used to be made ? With talented and knowledgeable developers who would never “hallucinate” an API or a library function ? With cybersec experts who would never put their user’s data in jeopardy ? With performance investigators checking the computational complexity of each function ? Bitch please…
Software engineering is not the kind of mystical cathedral building these people have in mind, it’s more like a musty workshop in Pakistan where they make tractor tires with no safety equipment and a cigarette in their mouth. We’ve been throwing imperfect humans in various states of lucidity at every problem known to man for 30 years but suddenly people start believing that their bog standard CRUD software should be written by monks having attained cosmic godhood.
If some weirdo manages to make an adaptation of Mother Horse Eyes I’ll be the happiest man on earth
Turns out right now I’m a contractor for an app that is essentially a marketing / gtm AI harness. I can confirm Lemmy is far, far from their radars. Reddit is ubiquitous but the whole fediverse is lost to them.
(I mean for marketing. You’re right though, AI labs are probably scraping Lemmy it’s pretty cheap and has some training value)
It’s horrible. I have a client whose whole setup is based on Google drive and the APIs shit the bed constantly. It’s only getting worse they are so careless about these products that they might as well be legacy.
The place I work for has a hardcore vibe coder and today I found out none of the e2e tests pass because there is no db setup but it’s okay it doesn’t make the ci red as ignore_failed_tests is set to true
They are all hitting the same hard truth: making the app is kind of the easy part
décentraliser les couts de l’IA ne la rend pas plus efficace. Le local c’est pour des questions de vie privée, pas d’environnement
On est quand même en droit de penser qu’il vaut mieux avoir des GPU à 400W qui font des spikes occasionnels et déversent quelques calories dans le buffer thermique d’une résidence (où elles sont compensées mécaniquement par moins de chauffage etc…), que des data centers en spike permanent qui dumpent des MW de chaleur dans leur environnement immédiat.
It must be nice to have technical opinions that don’t need to be grounded in facts. Why would you check your assumptions when you can just vibe.
I mean the ones in the latest release of rsync, tf does nginx have to do with anything ?
Which of the CVEs in question are you referring to?
What about the 6 critical security bugs he fixed in that release. Didn’t rsync need those “contributions”?
It was a mess from superfluous complexity from adopting every buzzword along his career, cloud, microservices, configuration management
That was the bane of my existence before AI and i suspect AI will only compound this issue.
If you do “artisan vibe coding”, acting like a very hands on CTO that challenges decisions and reviews most of the code produced, you get a modest productivity boost in the 20 to 40% range, and a large reduction in cognitive load which can help you think bigger thoughts on the longer term. The quality can be as high as you want it to be in that setup.
But if you do fully agentic unsupervised vibe-coding, it’s easy to get into a mess because it’s like having a team of junior/mids paid by the line churning out complexity all day long. The productivity boost can be a large multiple but the quality suffers because you have to ignore a lot of the stuff and the devil is in the details so he will certainly get you at some point.
Maybe you’re right
oh man while i do love being correct, deep down i hope you’re the one who’s right and i’m overreacting
If you’re making a broader point don’t single me out
Yes that is a communication lapse on my end, i try to make issues personal to emphasize them but it’s not always relevant. I don’t think it should detract from the broader point, sorry if it does.
My sensation is that we’re doing fine for now
I think the data shows that we’re far from fine and already resource-constrained on most critical projects. It’s not that people stop caring about open source, it is still fundamental to the way the web works. It’s just that they don’t feel personally compelled to pitch in because they think we’re doing fine now. The wikipedia analogy works well here : it is still fundamental to the way people get information, but it’s chronically understaffed and may already be in a death spiral.
Also they are addicted to sycophancy. Now that they have a convincing yes man in their pockets they are uniquely vulnerable to AI psychosis.