Mason Bially
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@eniko I think this comes from people who end up teaching a lot of amateurs online. I so often run into people who are trying to do cache aware optimizations, or avoid virtual function calls, or manually write out SSE/AVX intrinsics, when they can barely write the if statements needed to split a string, a while loop to count characters in a string, or find fizzbuzz "a really difficult challenge".
To say nothing of how often questions people ask are some sort of XY problem.
@munin I mean, just to be clear, C++ hasn't made you do your own pointer math for like 13 years, or more if one is competent. My point here is they'd find ways to fuck this up in any language. Because they fired hundreads to replace them with AI, fundamental process of incompetence.
@indigo @allpoints @SecurityWriter Eh, it feels like it's independently reinvented/rediscovered often to me. Company want's to cut costs -> opens up balance sheet and says "well what does the IT department really do anyway? we already have email/google docs/laptops."
The thing is that, like traditional search engines, chatGPT can be easily "prompted" with the answer you are looking for. For example when I asked "How is greek a combination of four other languages" it came back with a bulleted list of four languages (Latin, Turkish, Italian, French, for those curious) and a paragraph of how each made up Greek during the late Byzantine Empire (leaving aside that enlightenment era French did not exist at that time).
Link in this case, it seems to just be some certificates, signed images, and a purchase history. There were some attempts decades ago by the cryptopunks of the era to make corporations do this.
Which leads into *why* this is being called "blockchain": the hype buzzword makes it possible for engineers to get their bosses to pay for the implementation of actually good ideas like cryptographically signed certificates of authenticity.
@ariadne I suspect this is most likely an "enterprise blockchain", which are just cryptographic distributed ledgers. Under this definition git, PGP signed email conversations, and SSL certs are "blockchains". And I have heard of enterprise blockchain devs unironically saying git is a blockchain.
Personally I believe we are rapidly heading toward an AI winter of sorts. So my consolation would be that it should all come crashing down shortly (my personal prediction is a year and a half if not sooner).
My evidence for this is broadly the historical cycle of it (every 20 years), the tech slow down (also a historical sign), and the fact that the last 3 years have seen numerous methods of improving AI reach the apex (e.g. we now train on the whole internet, there isn't a second Internet's worth of data to improve the training set; NVidia's new AI cards are no longer showing workload specific improvements, just general hardware improvements, and so on across dozens of factors)
It may also be wishful thinking on my part.