Pennomi

AI, please write my thesis in the style of Shakespeare. Good luck detecting THAT as AI writing.

2 person classes would be a dream compared to the overburdened 30+ person classes of today. You get half of a private tutor? Hell yeah.

Algae is also more efficient per cubic meter, if I understand correctly.

I created a relatively complex board/card game and just shoved the rulebook PDF into an LLM, so it’d be easy to answer people’s questions with exact references to cards and rulebook pages. So far it’s successfully corrected ME twice on specific rulings. It’s actually quite useful in this regard.

Presumably a document query system, one of the actually useful reasons to use an LLM.

Having it trawl through thousands of pages of NASA and government files to answer regulatory questions is probably legitimately helpful, even if all it does is point you towards the right pages for a human to review.

One of the things that they keep saying is that this is the lightest bionic available, so it’s possible that physical ports are simply too heavy.

You gotta cater to your base. If they can’t read, you show pictures.

No but it is tone deaf (heh) to use Claude, a non-self hosted AI, and Suno, another non-self hosted AI to literally sing the praises of why you shouldn’t use corporate software.

Especially when open source and open weight models exist to do both of those things, albeit at a lower quality.

Why would somebody intuitively know that a newer, presumably improved, model would hallucinate more? Because there’s no fundamental reason a stronger model should have worse hallucination. In that regard, I think the news story is valuable - not everyone uses ChatGPT.

Or are you suggesting that active users should know? I guess that makes more sense.

I don’t pay Tesla for the vehicle (I don’t even supercharge), so it doesn’t actually affect their bottom line if I sell it. Buying a new car does affect my bottom line though.

Boycotts are only effective when they change purchasing behaviors, and this purchase is long done. I do encourage everyone who asks if I like my car to look into specific alternatives instead however.

And that’s really the only reason I have one - it was the only long range electric car available when I bought it. Now I would choose any of the many other options first.

That’s still faster than me though…

If you’re feeling out of breath, drink a thorium potion!

“Doozy” I believe

Musk is batshit insane, but even he’s not this overt about his views.

Besides, when would Musk have had time to go on 4chan? He’s a diehard Twitter addict, posting something like once every 20 minutes, night time hours included. We all know where he spends his internet time.

That’s increasingly untrue as we build tools to inspect and modify those weights. Nearly every open model has homegrown LoRA support, and most of them have abliteration code that lets you erase undesirable behaviors.

Should be illegal, but they are doing it legally by exploiting a loophole. Disgusting.

This one projects the image onto a bunch of vibrating rubber bands. I don’t think there’s a long term market for this. It’s a clever idea though that fixes the hazards of a solid diffuser (like those godawful fan-based volumetric displays).

Agreed. I use it in my daily workflow but you as the senior developer have to understand what can and cannot be delegated, and how to stop it from doing stupid things.

For instance when I work in computer vision or other math-heavy code, it’s basically useless.

Code written by AI is really poorly written. A couple smells I’ve noticed:

• Instead of fixing error cases, it overly relies on try:catch structures, making critical bugs invisible but still present. Dangerous shit.
• It doesn’t reuse code that already exists in the project. You have to do a lot of extra work letting it know that your helper functions or CSS utility classes exist.
• It writes things in a very “brute force” way. If it finds any solution, it charges forward with the implementation even if there is a much simpler way. It never thinks “but is there a better way?”
• Likewise, it rarely uses the actual documentation for your library. It goes entirely off of gut instincts. Half the time if you paste in a documentation page, it finally shapes up and builds the code right. That should be default behavior.
• It has a string tendency to undo manual changes I have made, because it doesn’t know the reasons why I did them.

On the other hand, if you’re in a green field project and need to throw up some simple, dirty CSS/HTML for a quick marketing page, sure, let the AI bang it out. Some projects don’t need to be done well, they just need to be done fast.

And the autocomplete features can be a time saver in some cases regardless.