That some people find “text box that spits out a broken version of what they want and then you yell at it until it’s sufficing” more convenient than using existing tools says a lot more about existing tools than about the text box.

E.g. programming has long been extremely overwrought and complex for no reason other than enterprise wankery and gatekeeping, see the various frameworks from Big Tech.

The same companies now rent you expensive tools that “make programming easy”, while their overly complex frameworks and environments are free of course.

Instead of fixing the problem we’re now having two problems.

(The same is true in other industries.)

It has just started doing CrossFit

#adhd #adhs #procrastination #comic #productivity #meme #adhdmeme

For the love of god can we stop anthropomorphising LLMs. No, ChatGPT did not "come up with an excuse" or "think about its mistakes". Gemini did not "lie about its reasoning" or "struggle to understand basic concepts". Grok didn't "decide to praise Nazis" or "express it's support for genocide".

They're mimics designed cynically to trick you into assigning them a humanity that they'll never have, and giving them false agency allows their designers and creators an innocence they don't deserve.

"open the pod bay doors, Hal"

"sure, the doors are now open"

"no, Hal, they aren't. open the doors"

"you are right, that is my mistake. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal, the doors are still not open. open the doors!"

"you are right, the doors are not open. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal! the doors are still not open! i'm dying out here!"

"i am sorry, i did not open the doors when i said i had. that was my mistake. the doors are now open"

"... Hal ... open ... the ..."

#MicroFiction

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