Although this is stupid you wouldn’t believe the amount of people I work with who are “highly educated” who just have the worst work process / ideas / work ethic.

The past two years of my life working in corporate has dramatically changed my overall views on average human intelligence.

I use it for tedious transformations or needle ones haystack problems.

They are better at searching for themes or concepts then they are at actually doing any “thinking tasks”. My rule is that if requires a lot of critical thinking then the LLM can do it.

It’s definitely not all they say it is. I think LLMs will fundamentally always have these problems.

I’ve actually had a much better time using it for in line completion as if recent. It’s much better when the scope of the problem it needs to “solve” ( the code it needs to find and compose to complete your line ) is like the Goldilocks zone. And if the answer it gives is bad I just keep typing.

I really hate the way LLM vibe coded slop is written and architecture. To me is clear these things have extremely limited conception. I’ve compared it to essentially ripping out the human language center, giving it a keyboard and asking it to program for you. It’s just no really what it’s good at.

YSK, there’s a large number of older Kindles that can be jail broken.

I just ssh pirated .mobi files into mine

Is he threating nuclear war???

It’s all I see slop enthusiasts go off of

I’m terrified I’ll never be able to find somewhere to work where this isn’t the case. Deeply terrified.

On the one hand software freedom.

On the other this has me thinking about how fascinating this problem is from academic standpoint.

How can you ensure software can ONLY run on the machines you allow? Even if the user has ring 0 access?

Is it mathematically impossible to achieve?

Any question that you could get the answer too from reading a sentence or two from a book or article is generally an LLM will probably be able to answer.

It’s good for surface level exploratory research.

The deeper you go the more fallacies and bias start to enter the mix. LLMs by nature are biased and will only present you with one or two solutions/options/opinions on why and what.

Knowing when your hitting that point is difficult. I urge you to read documentation and human written guides and articles once you find yourself surprising what the LLM can give you.

As a software developer and script writer myself I can guarantee you what a LLM writes is not “gold” it’s more like bronze at best.

It’s double speak.

People learned the power of words and now they are abusing them.

The American public with all their faults will nearly trust any written word. Anything besides what they’ve already been programmed to immediately be skeptical of they will readily accept into their reality like good little consumers.

They are easy and effective

I used to feel the same way, but I’ve come to realize it’s slop that just looks better on the surface not slop that is actually better.

At least it compiles most the time now. But it’s never quite right… Everytime I have Claude write some section of code 6 more things spring up that need to be fixed in the new code. Never ending cycle. On the surface the code appears more readable but it’s not

Unfortunately Its now in the Dean’s pockets 😭

The biggest problem with this atleast for me is that I see people with decades of experience who still have awful taste.

They ran into an issue, learned either nothing Or the wrong thing from it and moved on.

I bet it’s probably correlated with low education as most things

Why do some people just have the worst fucking ideas…and why is “some” starting to feel like “most”

When I left the US this was a BIG surprise for me

I’m sitting next to house because if I don’t bother him he’ll probably pop a couple vicoden and take a shot and sleep

Apex legends… I know, I know

I have a back up SSD with windows on I swap out to play the very few games that still require it that I just can’t give up. But I don’t have the need to duel boot anymore. I just keep the SSD to scratch my itch