Post B5IgLinzJFjfMq8ah6 by lisamelton@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5IgLinzJFjfMq8ah6 by lisamelton@mastodon.social
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       Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.We make Mastodon awesome by following people and boosting what we find meaningful, significant or just cool. That's how it works.Let's keep making friends. Let's keep sharing. Let's keep Mastodon alive. Together. 💖
       
 (DIR) Post #B5IgNGFwQRXjP2wkxE by stux@mstdn.social
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       @lisamelton Exactly♥️
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J1wMUVKmvBufKx3g by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
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       @lisamelton I'm a pretty firm advocate for no AI use at our office. My simple line? "You are better than the AI." True here, too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J1wMigU4GQcdyHA0 by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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       My boss wrote all our stories in Claude. They were (and still are) unreadable. I took over writing all the newer stories. I don't mind using the random code generator for small things, but sweeping architecture agent coding just looks like we're creating a massive pile of technical debt on a new project.If whoever wants to write some slop-lm to filter the fedi firehouse, meh .. everyone can do what they want. I'll keep mine chronological. It's more fun that way.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J3R28BBNEhhN5G0O by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
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       @djsumdog @lisamelton I'm not in a tech field, no coding—we just have researchers writing reports, and some of them were trying to use AI to write . . . and it was soooooo painful. The stuff read like it was written by a forgetful corpse. There was no . . . connection for me. I sniffed it out and asked them to please stop, to write things from scratch on their own.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J3R2aBVFdb6EBcem by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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       I had drinks with a old co-worker a few weeks back who was (and still is) a web marketing manager. He told me he writes some reports with the LLM and he's pretty sure his director asks to summaries all the reports she gets with LLMs..I rarely uses the Weighted Random Word generators outside of code and I would NEVER use them to craft a message to someone or a blog post. The thing about writing is that it's the way we organize thoughts. you are organizing what you want to communicate. The moment you outsource that to matrix/transformer/attention multiplication, you've lost the ability to arrange what you're thinking and putting it into order.That's such a essential part of written language, something that we've only had for a few hundred years! Literacy rates were at 2%~5% for much of the ancient world until like .. what... 1500? 1600?These days I can't even read generated shit. It might not even be auto-generated. Some people may just write that way now because they use GiPPTY /Claude so much that it's just how they think now. It drives me bonks.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J4xVPjwYPTjvLU24 by theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
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       @djsumdog @lisamelton @ColesStreetPothole oh wait until you see whats happening in universitiesim pretty sure I can count the number of people who can think on one hand
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J5BHcM2Fvr0LocG8 by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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       What do you think are solutions for training the next generation of programmers and engineers? Are institutions going to have to redo their programs, and how so?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J6Same86lBK9RlS4 by theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
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       @djsumdog @lisamelton @ColesStreetPothole this isnt even programmingthis is engineering, the next generations building the 737s that are carting you to and fro, the cars that you drive to work inim terrified, we are doomed
       
 (DIR) Post #B5J6Sb2bAnWK7cuVJg by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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       Yea ... I know. At some point a bridge is going to collapse because some automation to check tensile strength is going to get it horrible wrong, and it will be the Big Dig but with 10x as many cars. 😩 :agummysad: