istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

Something to which they, and people like them, are entitled

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

[–] istewart@awful.systems 16 points 8 months ago

Surely Wikia could have catapulted to the upper echelons of the Fortune 500 if they had just moved faster to gatekeep the facts about gender-swapped Lady Vegeta being a rare card in set 27 of the Dragonball gacha game

[–] istewart@awful.systems 15 points 8 months ago

In this context, "moat" is a cargo-cult invocation of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Just another square on the hackernews bingo

[–] istewart@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

Promptfondler DLC for Disco Elysium is a big disappointment so far

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

yeah don't do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99's continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

[–] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 8 months ago (9 children)
[–] istewart@awful.systems 21 points 8 months ago

of course somebody prompted up a LessWrong-specific chatbot

[–] istewart@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

twitter gon' have nothin' left but the cranks

[–] istewart@awful.systems 22 points 9 months ago

crazy people who look sort of like me but younger.

giving away the game a bit, Mr. Schmidt

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Despite the industry's deeply ingrained neophilia, I think it speaks to the importance of backwards compatibility and legacy systems.

I can't help but think that the genAI craze will end up being a regrettable side-quest along the path to "coding for non-programmers" akin to Visual Basic. But hey, I bet there's a lot more legacy VB apps being kept alive out there than anyone would be comfortable with.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Point well made. Engineers, however quantitative they may be, are not often finance people. If the true believers were left in charge, they'd probably bankrupt promises much more rapidly, and auger the whole enterprise into the ground that much quicker. I can't see that Altman is actually that great a finance guy either, at least in stewardship of other people's money, but he has cultivated the ability to manipulate cash out of people and institutions during this grift-dominant era of Silicon Valley.

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