Hynek SchlawackApr 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill/116393325512331807

“As for the artifact that [Garry] Tan was building with such frenetic energy, I was broadly ignoring it. Polish software engineer Gregorein, however, took it apart, and the results are at once predictable, hilarious and instructive: A single load of Tan’s "newsletter-blog-thingy" included multiple test harnesses (!), the Hello World Rails app (?!), a stowaway text editor, and then eight different variants of the same logo — one of which with zero bytes.” 😂😭

Show threadHynek SchlawackApr 12

I love that article because while I find LLMs more useful than the average fediverser, my most observed and least talked about pet problem is that they allow everyone get their first idea implemented.

You don’t need any skills whatsoever to get started so you can’t judge whether the idea is worthwhile at all and you don’t get any feedback on the feasibility of the design until you run out of tokens. Anything can be brute-forced. The FOSS slop wave is just a sub problem of this.

Show threadJudy2kApr 12
@hynek Fortunately, my first ideas are always excellent. Sadly, it can take a while for everyone else to catch up so that they can appreciate them.
Show threadHynek Schlawack
@judy2k True-ish
Apr 12 at 7:49pmMona for iPhone
Show threadJudy2kApr 12
@hynek Which is better than True!