the comments are wild āyes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concernā
David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6Ā·2 days ago
it should be, but heās been actively promoting the stuff
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish5Ā·3 days ago
all the stock sites are. use case: an image thatās almost perfect but you wanna tweak it
LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4Ā·3 days ago
you should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about āHookedā
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6Ā·3 days ago
the psychology of loot boxes?
yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900
the book is āHookedā and itās Donāt Build The Torment Nexus Iām Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish6Ā·3 days ago
AI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isnāt going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish18Ā·3 days ago
this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, iāve heard about it widely
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish9Ā·3 days ago
I dabble in conversational AI for work
yeah this may be the wrong sub for you
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish17Ā·3 days ago
these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish24Ā·3 days ago
ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those āopen sourceā projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.
Hereās a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI
I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, theyāll be making a mistake
dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool
so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isnāt all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.
around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but itās about AI becoming superhuman
the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish7Ā·3 days ago
this is not debate club, per the sidebar
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coders think theyāre 20% faster ā but theyāre actually 19% slowerEnglish17Ā·4 days ago
this user has been removed for commenting without reading the article
being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English10Ā·4 days ago
and n=16 handily beats the usual promptfondler n=1
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢āAI is here to stayā ā is it, though? What do you mean, āstayā?English29Ā·5 days ago
youtube comment:
Zeppelins are here to stay! After all, we still have the technology for rigid airship full of hydrogen cells, you canāt unring this bell!
(I have pretty good YT commenters actually. Because I moderate all comments, because this is fuckin AI.)
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢āAI is here to stayā ā is it, though? What do you mean, āstayā?English19Ā·5 days ago
the dream of robot slaves is too powerful to suppress permanently, but itāll be one heck of an AI winter
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Cursor tries setting less money on fire ā AI vibe coders outragedEnglish14Ā·5 days ago
itās near as joyous as the tesla subs
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?English12Ā·5 days ago
if you want to do stream of consciousness creative writing, we have the MoreWrite community for stuff you want opinions on and the WriteFreely at https://gibberish.awful.systems/ - if that second one sounds useful, PM @self for an account
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?English13Ā·5 days ago
discuss.
per the sidebar: This is not debate club. Unless itās amusing debate.
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English8Ā·6 days ago
it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. Youāre welcome.
wonder if thatās why they tried and failed to change it to āsquiggle maximizingā