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Lovable Sidekick

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  • ICE ICE baby

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  • If the world were a binary meme world this might make sense, but it's more like saying stuff happened during the day... night... day... night...

  • Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

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  • ChatGPT didn't "think" anything. It generated instructions telling users to do things incorrectly based on the human-generated content in its training data, which it didn't understand because it doesn't understand anything.

  • Anime detected, opinion rejected

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  • Indeed, which is why getting shot in the heel was every warrior's Achilles Heel.

  • Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time

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  • Great interview! The whole proof-of-work approach is fascinating, and reminds me of a very old email concept he mentions in passing, where an email server would only accept a msg if the sender agreed to pay like a dollar. Then the user would accept the msg, which would refund the dollar. So this would end up costing legitimate senders nothing but would require spammers to front way too much money to make email spamming affordable. In his version the sender must do a processor-intensive computation, which is fine at the volume legitimate senders use but prohibitive for spammers.

  • Anubis, The Opensource Defender Against AI Bots: I fight bots in my free time

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  • Seems like it screens out bots regardless of whether they use AI or are just traditional asshole-created bots.

  • Anime detected, opinion rejected

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  • The story of Achilles has always creeped me out. Imagine getting shot in the heel with a fucking arrow. Seems like one of the worst places. OTOH I guess no place is exactly good.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • Depends on your tolerance for code spelunking. Back in the 90s I was encouraged to do Y2K prep because I had some COBOL experience, but I really hated pawing through old code. To be fair, COBOL was designed to be self documenting and English-like. But I'm glad I got into web dev instead back then. It was right at the dawn of "dynamic HTML" when web pages started actually doing things. Very cool time. Right now I'd be more inclined to go into helping companies recover from failed AI projects.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • Wow. Many years ago I bought an old cash register to use as a prop in a play, sounds like the type you're talking about, and it was already way outdated then. Thing was amazingly heavy, like a refrigerator.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • That's a good one. Why would companies give employees special purpose gizmos that just tell them to use the phone in their pocket to call the office.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • Welcome to "That's not surprising at all!"

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • So does pretty much the whole banking and credit industry. When you get money out of an ATM there's usually some COBOL code involved.

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  • All downhill from there

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  • Only thing to do now is turn around and chomp 'em!

  • Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

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  • LOL, sort of like hiring the CEO's unemployed brother in law to build your new factory because he has a friend who knows about construction.

  • Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

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  • TBH that sounds like a lot of code I've seen from outsourcing companies in India. Their typical approach is to copy an existing program, module, web page or whatever and modify it as quickly as possible to turn it into what's needed. The result is often a mishmash of irrelevant code, giant data queries that happen to retrieve some field that's needed along with a ton of unnecessary crap, mixing frameworks, etc.

  • Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs

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  • In the early 2000s I had a manager who hardly ever gave me anything to do. Like in 6 months I did maybe 3 weeks work. And it's not like I never asked. I was already fairly disgruntled and had other reasons, but it led to me leaving the company for a job at a cancer research center. The problem with not doing anything at MS is that unless you can hide it somehow your review comes up and you have nothing to show for the year, you're kind of screwed. So after a relaxing 6 months it was a good time to jump ship. Anyway, a couple years later I read MS was laying off like 600 people - which might have been their first layoffs ever, I dunno. It was supposed to clear out "deadwood" - so I checked after another couple months and found out my old manager was still there! So much for "clearing out deadwood" lol.

    Capitalism fanatics will say with great conviction that business has to be efficient because of competition, while government is inherently inefficient because it has no competition. There's a little truth there, but the complete truth is that business is as inefficient as it can afford to be. The more money a company has, the more inefficiency they can absorb. In my mind that's one good reason not to allow these gigantic mergers of mega-billion-dollar corporations. Huge entities with tons of money can be inefficient and sloppy as hell for a long, long time before they fail.

  • Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

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  • My daughter has used AI a lot to write grant proposals, which she cleans up and rewords before submitting. In her prompts she tells it to ask her questions and incorporate her answers into the result, which she says works very well, produces high quality writing, and saves her a ton of time. She's actually a very competent writer herself, so when she compliments the quality I know it means something.

  • Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

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  • Retired dev here, I'm curious about the nature of "the mess". Is it buggy AI-generated code that got into production? I know an active dev who uses ChatGTP every day, says it saves him a hell of a lot of work. What he does sounds like "vibe coding". If you're using AI for grunt work and keep a human is in the workflow to verify the code, I don't see how it would differ from junior devs working under a senior. Have some companies been using poorly managed all-AI tools or what? Sorry for the long question.

  • Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

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  • And no doubt struggling to blame their bad decisions on each other and preserve their salary bonuses.