Guillaume Darmont
@Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226
“Start with the smallest access that still works, then widen it as you gain confidence.”
Hahahaha widen it? Get fucked!
Dan Dean
fuzzyfuzzyfungus@990000 I can't rigorously exclude the possibility of worse advice; but "start with least privilege design; discard as hubris allows" makes a strong informal case for being literally the worst security design that still recognizes itself as a security design.
WesDym@990000 This advice is like the old Calvin & Hobbes thing about bridges: Run bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it breaks, and then you know what the weight limit is.
So yeah, expand your trust in the tool until it fucks you, and then you have some idea how much you can trust it.
This is a fidget spinner for stupid people with money.
sidereal
Large Format Projectionist
Raywonder
✨Based Plant🎸
Michael Gemar@990000 @Nigel_Purchase Thoughts and prayers.
Claudius Link
Randall Lee@990000 This is peak braindead nonsense.
I am Jack's Found 404
jackNot to mention this just pushed the doomsday clock even closer to midnight...
João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)
Negative12DollarBill@990000
If only there was some way to set a cron job to run at a particular time
If only there was some way to set a cron job to run at a particular time
Li ~ Crystal System@negative12dollarbill @990000 yeah and maybe if only you could use cron to schedule some message to be sent or an alert to show up.. but its obviously too "uninteligent" for that .. you need AI ..
Dec [{(
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LOOKING AT YOU, wp-cron.php
(running on every page load, because that's more n00b friendly than getting it to run from cron)
(in the default install)
(but wordpress might have fixed that idk)
groxx
PlantagoLabs@990000 I am getting some block chain smart contract vibes from that experiment. We all know how that went.
Manuel
trusty falxter 🧠
@ManuelVLRD
Thankfully, everything from this era will be lost. An archive created by that AI would probably look something like this: "Check every thirty minutes to make sure you haven't forgotten how things were."
oatmeal[…] at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3la6iaxohs22x
Nobody Important@oatmeal I think AI is a user interface paradigm shift more so than making computers smart or whatever. A natural language interface to computing tasks is a powerful thing. Much more so than having a little box that bullshits you.
@forkexecwait 100% agree. The scam is intelligence which with fomo is meant to boost valuations and really is not a deliverable of this technology, and there’s no evidence I’m aware of anyone can demonstrate such abilities.
Bogdan Buduroiu@forkexecwait @oatmeal same idea here, people would be genuinely amazed by dumb 9M parameter models than can just do function calling well (and run in browser rather than huge datacentres), i.e. converting from "What's on my to-do list today" -> print(get_tasks("2026-02-01"))
Allan Chow@forkexecwait @oatmeal my specific beef with gemini vs google assistant is that gemini is INCONSISTENT in its response to me when i give it a command. It's pretty infuriating. And now assistant is gone 😭😭😭
Michael Westergaardthey're just reinventing the command line. because natural language is ambiguous, so eventually there will be a specific dialect used that isn't ambiguous. aka, a command line
Ed Davies
Very Human Robot@oatmeal but that's a good thing, right?
@StompyRobot for casual users maybe but does this justify the theft of intellectual property, abuse of data workers and environmental damage? Investors are trapped in a bubble of over investing in a cool tool that can’t deliver much of what’s promised even with the huge investment this far.
Robert Banz@oatmeal Product Managers that think they’ll be able to “vibe” their way into a future without those pesky software engineers always crushing their dreams.
John William David Thomson@oatmeal I've seen things like basic refactoring, finding and fixing trivial errors, even formatting, as examples of great things an LLM can do, as if any competent IDE (or handful of cli tools) hasn't done that for ages.
TerrorBite 🦁@oatmeal the other 30% is greedy unscrupulous people who've realised just how much money they can make off the first 70%
Le Néandertal se sent las, las@990000 I think this illustrates well the cost difference between automating by AI and automating with a simple tool...
Kien
Lukas
Carina C. Zona@ivorytusk a cat doesn't tell you when it's morning, it tells you when you're at the midpoint between bedtime and morning, and punches your nuts while doing it
Flachländer
konstruct-960T-BF64.gguf@990000 this doesn't even read like a human anymore it just sounds like slop 100% of the time, they've been contaminated
sabik@990000
better billing experience than AWS
polypunk
Assimilateborg@990000 AI is still too cheap.
caneToad 
@990000 Slop, slop, sloppity slop!
Can't fix stupid, but you could get away with just a *little* thinking, moron. Kind reminder in case nobody actually taught you:
Bought a computer or smartphone for $$$ - fine.
Either devices' operating system comes with a built-in contraption called a timer, alarm or calendar, basically a thingy that churns out reminders, alerts and whatnot. You're free (as in free lunch or free service) to set your already paid for contraption to the message 'Buy milk' at 0800 the next morning.
But vour inner Prompt Engineer aka Sloperator wants to task this and pay this to an LLM slop machine. Loser!
Heeere ya go!
F4GRX Sébastien@990000 I fucking hate that linkedin style verbiage.
rainynight65@990000 Especially genius since this is such a basic reminder that any smartphone made in the last fifteen years should be able to do this without needing to orchestrate agentic AIs.
AJ Sadauskas@rainynight65 @990000 Fifteen years? My Motorola RAZR from nearly 20 years ago could do an alarm with a label (e.g. "get milk").
So US$20 a day to replicate something a festurephone could comfortably do.
So US$20 a day to replicate something a festurephone could comfortably do.
Geoff Mackenzie@rainynight65 @aj @990000 the Psion 3 (1991) could label alarms. To be honest we're still over engineering this - a strategically placed chalk board could handle a morning reminder to get milk
FediThing 
You can go back even further, there were PDAs in the early 1980s which had alarms linked to calendars! It's kind of the most basic thing a PDA might be for.
lucie digitální@rainynight65 @990000 I have a little noticeboard on my fridge with a pen on which I write reminders
@990000 yes, but did it remind him to get milk?
Idiran Xoxarle@DrorBedrack @990000 Hope it did...only after having vacuumed his (should use its, tho') bank account.
catch@DrorBedrack @990000 @idiran non zero chance that it never reminded him because it ran out of balance and started erroring out.
@DrorBedrack @990000 @idiran "is it morning yet?"
The alarm clock refused to answer, it said "$20, please".
He searched his Claude account, no more tokens, nothing.
@DrorBedrack @990000 @idiran it's actually worse than the opening to Ubik because in the book, remonstrating with the door is free, in real life it would also drain your account.
Merlin Makes@990000
Why would you use AI for an alarm clock ffs?
BTW using a "smart" phone for that isn't so smart either: it uses somewhere between 0.2 & 0.5Watt the whole night.
I could switch of my old dumb phone and it would use hardly any energy, and still wake itself and me up if I wanted.
Aurimas Černius
n3wjack