Jef Poskanzer

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Mostly harmless.

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now thats what I call abuse of the qr code format

I can’t think of another time when software devs had to be •forced• en masse to use a new technology that was supposed to help them. Usually we’re kind of stupid for the shiny new things: jamming them in when they solve nothing, doing unnecessary rewrites just to use the new hotness because it’s so cool and fun. Usually we’re the one trying to shove it down mgmt’s throat (or sneak it by them) rather than the reverse.

But not this time.

7/

you know it’s weird, whenever a project in a controversy about LLMs bans them (servo) people seem to love it in a way that utterly drowns out the doomsaying from the AI boosters. and then when a project says or does something friendly to LLMs, there’s always backlash from a fucking gigantic number of people

the ability of the software industry to ignore public opinion has always been fucking magical, especially as it pretends to do community and democracy

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Bay to Breakers is about to start. Everyone please be mellow and have a good time. Don't piss on people's houses, there are plenty of trees that need fertilizer. And if your Watermelon friend has to barf, hold her hair back!
I tried Merlin in my front yard at sunrise and it ID'd a dozen birds in five minutes. Not sure about one though - a crow was having an argument with another crow across the street and Merlin was like, no that second one is a mockingbird pretending to be a crow. Impressive if true!
@jmeowmeow They are crowdfunding for a new TLD. You can get jmeow.meow!
In three years, the .meow instances will be in full-scale war with the .awoo instances.
@phooky Better there than in the bike lane, which I see ALL THE FUCKING TIME
Overheard: “I feel more pressure to use AI as an adult than to do drugs as a teenager.”

#ai #llm #drugs