Thanks so much! Now I can waste my life on more interesting things…

Against my better judgement I got into an argument with a promptfan on Bluesky. To his credit, aside from the usual boring arguments (“models are getting better, and better”, “have you tried model xyz”, “everyone not using chatbots will be left in the dust” he provided an actual example.

https://github.com/dfed/SafeDI/issues/183 It’s a bug that’s supposedly easy to test, but hard to reason about. Took the chatbot half an hour while it would take him several (allegedly).

Now, my first thought was: “If a clanker could do it (something that famously can’t reason) then it couldn’t be that hard to reason about.”

But I was curious so I looked. Unfortunately it is an area I’m not familiar with and in a language (Swift) I don’t know at all.

Probably should file the claim under “not true or false” and touch grass or something, but it’s bugging me.

Any one y’all who could say if there’s something interesting in there?

Problem: Reviewers do not provide constructive criticism or at least reasons for paper to be rejected. Solution: Fake it with a clanker.

Genius.

To be more clear:

300000 swedish krona = ~672 690 czech koruna

700000 swedish krona = ~1 569 611 czech koruna

Was TPOT a Twitter thing?

If I recall correctly, TPOT literally means “That Part Of Twitter”

Joke’s on him, Know-Nothing Know-It-All is also a trope.

tl;dr: AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI…

Just one thing that caught my attention:

AI code review helps developers. We … found that 72.6% of developers who use Copilot code review said it improved their effectiveness.

Only 72.6%? So why the heck are the other almost 30% of devs using it? For funsies? They don’t say.

You’d think due to self selection effects most people who wouldn’t find using Copilot effective wouldn’t use it.

The only way that number makes sense to me is if people were force to use Copilot and… no, wait, that checks out.

I don’t see the problem, that looks like a typical McMansion to me.

Also, it’s nice the AI included a dedicated room for snorting cocaine (powder room).

all 19,797 submissions and 75,800 reviews (to one conference, in one year)

tired: Dead Internet Theory wired: Dead Conferences Theory

A week-ish ago I said that Mike Masnick is twice as annoying about AI as Dare Obasanjo.

I retract my statement

I’m “LIne storee” babyee.

Automs

I think he’s just a true believer (or very good at lying).

I have better thoughts I can waste time on

Me too. Unfortunately I don’t get to pick my intrusive thoughts.

I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:

First the positives:

• I think he’s actually an experienced software engineer.
• I think he care to check and test the LLM output.

But, by his own admission:

• He uses LLM for tasks he knows well (So easier to check and little negative impact on learning)
• He works mostly on hobby projects (so no obligation to actually maintain the stuff)
• He can choose to not use new libraries (which in a professional setting is not always a luxury you can afford)

Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.

OK, my bad. I was thinking about scenario like this: https://eneroutlook.enerdata.net/total-electricity-generation-projections.html

If you assume doubling of electricity production by 2050 (development + electrification) then 10% of that would mean more than double nuclear production.

5% would not really be a massive increase, my mistake, but would still mean more builds than retirement.

Could be, I don’t follow that closely. I’m not aware of any that come close to the level of shitshow of say, Hinckley Point C. That matters.

Yeah, I found his credulousness about "AI"quite amusing. Like when he went to a wrong station in Japan, because he asked ChatGPT. And posted about it, not realizing how much of a dumbass it made him look like. But it’s starting to wear off.

But hey, he at least admits there is a bubble.

And also, I haven’t unfollowed/muted/blocked Mike Masnick yet. And he’s at least twice as annoying about AI.

Unrelated: Did chrome just detect me writing about AI to shill Gemini to me? (puts on tinfoil hat)

If we’re talking about the general West, then there new nuclear is probably fucked. Rest of the world still builds for reasonable costs. Not nuclear bro amounts, but still.

I think we could see a future where nuclear makes 5-10% of the world’s electricity, which would technically make it a niche source of power, but it would also be a massive increase from today.

Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it is… uh… not good.

But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.

https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l

Transcript:

The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.

Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.