“I don’t like the prices of everything and the democrats are telling me I should be thankful to them because the prices aren’t worse, let’s try the other guy”
“oh dear, the prices are worse because the guy I elected did everything he said he was going to do and started a war for funsies”
Most voters are simple creatures with short term memories who don’t think beyond rolling the dice for a better outcome on their wallet. Then when they are “betrayed”, they repeat the process.
It’s a ten day old account shill account. They speak fluent Youtube comment because that’s where their experience is.
That was indeed the joke, yes.
In case it needs to be said, my participation up until this point has been 100% sarcasm. I am quite full of shit and wish you an excellent evening.
If you do feel it is justified, apply a litmus test: would it still be acceptable if it was done by [insert someone you hate here].
Woah, woah. Slow down there pardner. You’re trying to teach leopard sensitivity training to someone who can’t perceive a leopard until their face is halfway chewed off.
Shame on you. The empathy impaired are people too, and they can’t be held accountable to awareness of rights that are not directly benefitting them at the moment.
I’m a systems architect who uses agentic coding to get around some executive dysfunction challenges with writing my own code. I learned about the dysfunction late in life; maybe meds will eventually get me to a point where I can consistently work on a personal code project without a looming deadline or social contract in the loop. For now I am part of the problem. Hi!
I look at agentic coding as a firearms problem:
That said, most of the people who hate LLMs also don’t know a damn thing about how they’re used correctly. It’s also not their fault. Sure, they’re under no obligation to be an expert about the thing that’s harming them. But there’s a bigger reason: the companies pushing this shit benefit from a world stage where people use them wastefully and inefficiently.
The short list of things most people don’t get:
I could add another ten bullet points here, but I’m not here to prove that LLMs are capable of being useful. I’m here to demonstrate that it requires knowledge of a problem domain to get the best results. That means you can’t get rid of employees familiar with the knowledge domain. You need senior employees to get the best results, and you need junior employees so that they can eventually become senior employees. Same as it ever was. But because we’ve got useless fucking politicians who are too busy lining their own pockets instead of, I don’t know, regulating a worldwide memory shortage caused by a handful of companies, the whole thing is cannibalization of human society all the way down.
We could have scaled this to operate in the consumer space at a fraction of the energy costs (Apple SOC style versus energy inefficient hyperscaling) and used it as something to generate value by augmenting the capabilities of individual workers instead of trying to replace them wholesale. It only makes sense that it should have benefitted everyone considering this tech was built on shoving libraries worth of human achievement into a training pipeline (often without permission), right?
Nah. They profit more if we don’t own our own compute and everyone is encouraged to burn energy on treating the LLMs like all-knowing oracles instead of research tooling. They control the access to creations built on stolen knowledge. But hey, if everything else gets burned down in the process at least they come out on the other side rich and bailed out.
Problem 1 is also largely solved by ditching GitHub in favor of an environment where you control who is allowed to submit a PR. GitHub is convenient but if you have problems with vibe code volume, choosing to host with a company who heavily incentivizes it and has a commercial interest in doing so is self-defeating. Treat it the same as any other free service that enshittified after several years of market capture on the basis of being free and convenient.
Problem 2 is the actual reason the project tanked and your take is spot on.
lol, look at this kid trotting out “both sides” after repeatedly saying only dems kill people or want them dead. He’s so adorable when pretending to have empathy!
I hope you’re mistaken for a brown person by your precious ICE crusaders.
Agreed, to do otherwise is allowing them to choose the battlefield. The thing to remember is that the conservative voting base only emphasizes with what harms their own in-groups. You can bring the best facts to the table on other topics and their base will just shrug and move into the next shiny grievance / moral panic that they’re being fed.
Whenever you have an opening to cut their legs out from under them on an issue their own voters are unhappy about, you put it on blast. Every time.
It’s honestly a bit of both. Creativity can be expressed in the intermediate steps in order to provide a subjectively superior approach (durably optimal until someone identifies a better approach), but fundamentally the design goal is “achieve X with minimal risk and waste”. That’s the part where I agree with you: gatekeeping an outcome is dumb. That said, the expressions of those intermediate steps genuinely land in the territory of creativity. That’s how we end up with new algorithms. Creativity is how we arrive at the optimal algorithms.
Even so, gatekeeping those intermediate techniques is bad for the same reasons as gatekeeping the end state. If they can be independently arrived at (like flourishes that personalize a recipe or alter it for particular food pairings), the end result is still stifling innovation and closing access to the tools everyone has access to.
Edit: Ultimately I think this means everyone should have access, unequivocally. The problem is that LLMs are financially gatekept and implemented at environmentally predatory scales, with unregulated supply chain bottlenecks that choke out the more environmentally friendly and consumer accessible tech that was in the pipeline.
That’s giving them too much credit. Between Trump and social media, the shitbags successfully normalized (and commoditized) pride in being a shitbag. Once suffrage for women and “the negro” was normalized, there was a certain line that was toed in public. If you crossed that line all your fellow shitbags would distance themselves to avoid the blast radius of press coverage and public outrage. Politicians were notorious for this.
Fast forward to today. Trump is a shitty person in power who can be as shitty as he wants with no consequences. His party runs on grievance politics rooted in long simmering resentment. His very existence unites them because he is crass, uncultured, uneducated, and untouchable. Their role model is nothing but grievances, croneyism, financial fraud, and kid diddling. The first is the only thing that matters. The second and third are hand waved as his right for being successful. The kid diddling is being repeatedly buried in the press cycle because it’s one of the few things that can still unite the country and turn you into a pariah.
*children
Right now there is a chance they might overpower him.