@curtosis

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Computational linguist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Boosts are multivalent. He/they.

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719

It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:

1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)

2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).

Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?

E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.

There's no silver bullets in software development.

you can't use the averaging machine to get the average of the good parts only

"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"

then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.

some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116280575943263005

Speaking as a professional with more than 20 years' experience in IT and infosec,

this is absolute horseshit.

You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-airport-tsa-federal-immigration-agents-4cfb93f7d2ff5a1ccb87d1bdbf54b959

ICE seen at Atlanta airport amid partial shutdown

Armed federal immigration officers in tactical gear moved through terminals at some of the busiest U.S. airports Monday, standing near security lines and checkpoints after President Donald Trump ordered their deployment during a partial government shutdown that has disrupted air travel nationwide. The officers have not screened passengers so far. The Trump administration said they would supplement Transportation Security Administration staffing at certain airports but provided few details about exactly what they would be doing. After intensified immigration enforcement and protests in cities across the country over the past year, their presence has unsettled some travelers and raised new questions.

AP News
Side effects of #MLL coding include amassing expertise, and pride in your work.
Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.
Sums up my experience growing up
Every startup pitch is “what if [thing that exists] but [worse in ways we’ll discover later]” + “first principles thinking” which is why we keep re-inventing pressed juice, buses and the concept of having neighbours