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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

MOD NOTE: we ask people not to post detailed discussions of how one might conduct terrorism on awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

so that's picking out words from July, which Trump may or may not remember to follow depending what the last guy who spoke to him said

but broadly, if it's business fucking over ordinary users, he's for it

CHIPS act stuff doesn't really affect anything here - Nvidia is not gonna have supply difficulties that affect the bubble

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

ESR went like this after 9/11

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they actually came up with something more fucked up than stack ranking

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

appparently this is use of code-complete as well

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

"brutal mog, sir"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

WritePhilthily

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 6 months ago

i think she was clearly the winner there too

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago (7 children)

from someone on Mastodon:

Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.

If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.

I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

Sundar Pichal, Google Q3 2024 earnings call:

We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster.

Firstly, if this is literally true they're completely fucking cooked.

Secondly, if it isn't, what version of it is?

 

this is AI but it felt a lot more guy with broken gear

 

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Ilya tweet:

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the excellent research leadership of @merettm. It was an honor and a privilege to have worked together, and I will miss everyone dearly. So long, and thanks for everything. I am excited for what comes next — a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time.

Jan tweet:

I resigned

this comes precisely 6mo after Sam Altman's job at OpenAI was rescued by the Paperclip Maximiser. NYT: "Dr. Sutskever remained an OpenAI employee, but he never returned to work." lol

orange site discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128

lesswrong discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JSWF2ZLt6YahyAauE/ilya-sutskever-and-jan-leike-resign-from-openai

 

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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