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V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English6·6 days agoAren’t you supposed to only use whatever “self-driving” nonsense they have on highways only? I thought Tesla explicitly says you can’t do it on a normal road cause, well, it doesn’t fucking work.
It doesn’t even seem the driver is actually holding the wheel like they don’t try to avoid that at all
Just a second before the crash a car goes by, this thing could’ve just as easily swerved right onto that other car and injured someone, someone should at least lose their license for this
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy InsteadEnglish10·7 days agoIf I were a half-a-billion-dollar scam I would simply not have audits taps forehead
For LLMs specifically? Code is not text, aside from the most clinical, dictionary definition of “text”.
But even then, it also fails at writing coherent short or longform, so even if code was “just text” it’d fail equally badly.
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slopEnglish10·8 days agoSo… I think it’s high time to start planning an exodus.
Is there a good alternative to GitHub?
I have two types of repos, a few public open-source projects for which I require:
- Basic git stuff ofc, PRs, forks, etc.
- Issues
- Automatic scanning for security vulnerabilities like GH does
- CI on PRs and nightly CRON based, free and allowing both cloud-hosted runners and adding self-hosted runners
- Ability to host a static documentation site
Plus private ones where I don’t need any bells and whistles, just a git hoster for myself and no one else.
Is there something free that provides these things and doesn’t suck? If I go to GitLab’s page then it says:
so that’s fucked too now, huh
V0ldek@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!English4·10 days agoWell that fully answers the questions I had I guess
Why is everyone a milkshake duck
V0ldek@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!English9·11 days agoGod what’s the odds that he also used a wisdom woodchipper to produce the text of that pdf lol
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your dataEnglish7·11 days agoAlso referenced here with a debunk by a material scientist.
Economics not beating the allegations of not being a serious science once again
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025English1·12 days agodeleted by creator
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English9·15 days agoWhat does this have to do with literally anything I said about comparing AI with interns
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English9·15 days agoBut what’s the point of having that if it doesn’t result in improvement on the other side? Like you’re doing hard work to correct code and respond with feedback but you’re putting that into the void to no one’s benefit.
Hiring an intern makes sense. It’s an investment. Hiring an AI at the same skill level makes negative sense.
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025English7·15 days agoI don’t think I ever had a vibe-check as successful as this, literally never heard about the guy, said he needs to be shoved into a locker based on vibes, an hour later he searches for his own name to respond and gets hammered in replies for supporting The Big Orb. Just a quintessential internet moment.
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English7·15 days agoForever in my mind, the guy who said on another post he uses an LLM to convert strings to uppercase when that’s literally a builtin command in VSCode, give people cannons and they’re start shooting mosquitoes with them every fucking time
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English6·15 days agoFun fact, SO is not a place to go to ask for trivial syntax and it’s expressly off-topic, because guess what, people answering questions on SO are not your personal fucking google searchers
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English7·15 days agoI used to answer new questions on SO daily a few years back and 50% of all questions are basically unanswerable.
You’d also have the nice September Effect when a semester started and every other question would be someone just copy pasting their homework verbatim and being very surprised we closed it in like a minute.
The thing about that is that literally anyone can answer SO questions. Like try and do that. Pick a language or a tech you’re most familiar with, filter that tag and sort by new. Click on every new question. After an hour you’ll understand just why most questions have to be closed immediately to keep the site sane.
Whenever I see criticism of SO that’s like “oh they’ll just close your question for no reason” I can’t help but think okay, there’s overwhelming chance you’re just one of Those and not an innocent casualty of an overeager closer.
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English7·15 days agoMeh, I have so many bangers laughing at actual AI bros that I could make my CV just all be sneers on them, I think this particular corner of the internet is quite safe
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English7·15 days agoMy first actual real life project was building a data analytics platform while keeping the budget to a minimum. With some clever parallelism and aggressive memory usage optimisation I made it work on a single lowest-tier Azure VM, costing like $50 to run monthly, while the measurable savings for the business from using the platform are now measured in the millions.
Don Knuth didn’t write all those volumes on how software is an art for you to use fucking Node.JS you rubes, you absolute clowns
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English8·15 days agoSorry for being late, busy wanking off to the sexy robot in the article. So ye, anyway, why’d you do that?
V0ldek@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English10·15 days agoDon’t worry, if you apply yourself really hard one day you might become an actual engineer. Keep trying.
Since basically all graphics processing algorithms are linear algebra and all of ML is linear algebra but with a twist, I think fuzzy background removal is definitely AI.
This term is so meaningless you could call A* an “AI algorithm” at this fucking point