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@tschenkel @shanie My comparison was more about the economics. In a market economy, the case is easier to make for investment in data centres. There is demand right now, and utilities biggest problem is meeting it, so more capacity will be built. If you were to adopt a system like China’s, you could spend 20 times as much on EV subsidies and install chargers every 10 minutes of travel in every direction like they did.
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱JFC this article is horrifying
This assumption that you "can't stop" AI... SHUT IT DOWN.
The guy got his life back when his subscription ended. I feel like that's a FUCKING CLUE as to how to end this nightmare. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
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tanteAnthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.
Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.
It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.
Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.
The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.
@ashtime A Wikipedia article identifies her as the woman on the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Richter (which was sourced from here: https://trickymothernature.com/insideout1.html#n18)
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Greg JohnstonKulshan (some call it Mount Baker) with Coleman Pinnacle on the right, taken from Ptarmigan Ridge a few autumns ago, for #MountainMonday #Hiking #AltText
Dare ObasanjoLots of striking stats about how Americans feel about AI
• 80% of Americans are concerned about AI.
• 74% of Americans believe the government is not doing enough to regulate AI.
• 70% of believe advancements in AI are likely to lead to a decrease in the number of jobs.
• 55% of Americans believe AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives.
• 35% are excited about AI.
• 30% are concerned their own job could become obsolete
The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Americans' AI Use Increases While Views On It Sour, Quinnipiac University Poll On AI Finds; 7 In 10 Think AI Will Cut Jobs With Gen Z The Most Pessimistic | Quinnipiac University Poll
"The contradiction between use and trust of AI is striking. Fifty-one percent say they use AI for research, and many also use it for writing, work, and data analysis. But only 21 percent trust AI-generated information most or almost all of the time. Americans are clearly adopting AI, but they are doing so with deep hesitation, not deep trust," said Chetan Jaiswal, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chair, Department of Computing, Quinnipiac University School of Computing and Engineering.