Back on my theme of trying to understand why LLMs have taken off:

Puzzle piece 1: LLMs are, in Frankfurt's sense of the term, bullshit machines. To him, a core component of bullshit is "indifference to how things really are".

Puzzle piece 2: Managerialism, a dominant business philosophy, holds that managers are universal. They can manage anything without regard to the topic. Without truly learning "how things really are".

Puzzle piece 3: On average, the larger the company the higher the density of bullshit. CEO statements, managerial presentations up and down, customer comms, etc. Related is the density of office politics, careerism, etc.

So putting this together, it seems like our corporate hierarchies have a hard time understanding the weak point of LLMs because standard corporate culture has the same weak point: valuing many other things over the truth.

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

As long ago as 2006, I characterized the-thing-that-the-word-“Agile”-no-longer-represents as “monasticism for the married” – a way for people to huddle together in response to a hostile world.

Since Agile failed, it seems the software world has become more… uncaring. Perhaps this old essay might be of use to someone: http://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2006/11/01/index.html#agile-as-fish

Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
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The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

https://skyview.social

The protocol is absolutely insane.

There's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post