I heard him say “quantum” and immediately came here looking for fresh-baked sneers

Why do these guys all sound like deathnote, but stupid?

Better Offline was rough this morning in some places. Props to Ed for keeping his cool with the guests.

Don’t know if LLMs will kill OSS, but they sure are a kick-in-the-dick

It feels like gang initiation for insufferable dorks

Champion sneer

Ye gods! Also, great write-up!

Do you reckon that Altman recognized the gacha potential from the get-go? That Big LLM has always been FanDuel for dorks, but on purpose?

A hackernews muses about vibe coding a chatbot to provide therapy for people in crisis. Soon, an actual health care professional shows up to butcher the offender and defile the corpse. This causes much tut-tutting and consternation among the locals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535197

Edit: a shower thought: have any of yall noticed the way that prompt enjoyers describe using Cursor, tab completions, and such are a repackaging of the psychology of loot boxes? In particular, they share the variable-interval reward schedule that serves as the hook in your typical recreational gambling machines.

Mark Zuckerberg would like to know your location

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The web is often Dead Dove in a Bag as a Service innit?

oof! That’s hilarious!

A Supabase employee pleads with his software to not leak its SQL database like a parent pleads with a cranky toddler in a toy store.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318

This is so Charlie Stross coded that I tried to read the Mastodon comments.

Lesswrong is a Denial of Service attack on a very particular kind of guy

I’m going to put a token down and make a prediction: when the bubble pops, the prompt fondlers will go all in on a “stabbed in the back” myth and will repeatedly try to re-inflate the bubble, because we were that close to building robot god and they can’t fathom a world where they were wrong.

The only question is who will get the blame.

They should have invested in a boat if they had to have a depreciating asset

HEMI – Hot Extropians Making Inquiries

Please calm down.

lol

academ-ick