[object Object]1d ago
my favorite thing about the slop era is when you get an LLM booster really mad and they reveal the tasks they’re doing that can’t be accomplished without AI and it’s all really basic text editing they never learned to do properly
Show threadFinFangFoomed

@zzt 80% of the time people describing what they have AI do just makes them sound like boomers that can't even open a pdf.

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Show threadmathew1d ago
@FinFangFoomed @zzt I recently saw a distro maintainer list the time-consuming tasks that they use an LLM for. One was to reformat a whitespace-separated list into a newline-separated list.
Show threadOzzelot 1d ago
@mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt strange, i could swear they teach sed in any linux 101 class
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EA1d ago
@ozzelot @mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt or tr if you’re not big on sed. Or Find and Replace in their graphical IDE…
Show threadFinFangFoomed1d ago
@c0dec0dec0de @ozzelot @mathew @zzt whoa whoa whoa guys. I don't have the token budget left to pay you guys for all these answers!
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)1d ago
@mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt we keep seeing actual linux system administrators going "me and claude are good at writing shell scripts" and we look at the scripts and theyre unilateral garbage full of puffery that can be replaced with two calls
Show threadschrotthaufen23h ago
@atax1a @mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt Every now and then I have to tell people I won’t merge their Ansible roles, or playbooks, because they’re just
```
- shell: foo
- shell: bar
etc
```
And then I have to hand hold them through writing proper Ansible to preserve my sanity. (I don’t mind teaching, but I’d rather they just ask me to do so.)
Those are presumably smart people! They all have at least a B.Sc. in CS, or infosec. (Yeah I know a degree says nothing about intelligence.)
Show threadF4GRX Sébastien23h ago
@atax1a @mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt i HATE that "claude" is more and more considered as a person they work with. It makes me puke every time. Thats fucking awful. It's a slop extruder as dumb as chatgpt. It was named on purpose by anthropic of course, which is why I hate that even more.
Show threadpixxl15h ago
@f4grx @atax1a @mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt "Claude" as a chatbot name sounds so gross too. I hate having to hear or read about it every day.
Show threadFinFangFoomed15h ago
@pixxl @f4grx @atax1a @mathew @zzt it always makes me think of "clodhopper." Could that be a thing? Can we start calling these AI humpers Claudehoppers?
Show threadF4GRX Sébastien23h ago

@atax1a @mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt today a customer criticized the documentation delivery of my colleague as "verbose and hard to follow when a simple annotated drawing could have been much better"

Guess how they did the doc

IT MADE ME SO HAPPY

Show threadBrett Edmond Carlock1d ago
@mathew
@FinFangFoomed @zzt
I use CTRL+R in MousePad for that 🤣
Show threadarestelle18h ago
@mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt the rapidity with which people use these things to melt their own brains is impressive
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actually18h ago

@mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt

People will literally boil the oceans to avoid learning awk.

Show threadgunstick12h ago
@rk @mathew @FinFangFoomed @zzt and each time I want to convert lines to one single line or one line of words into single lines, I retype the whole awk thing again. Never made an alias.
Show threadDuchamp Pérez1h ago
@FinFangFoomed @rk @zzt @mathew Their missing the coolness of awk 😓