Posts by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
 (DIR) Post #B5dJcWB1IVhwUu6pZg by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @internetarchive I switched phones a few days ago.I had preserved my podcast collection by switching my SD card to the new phone.But Google did not move my podcast catcher, they downloaded all new, current apps. Several lost features.I rolled back my podcast catcher to a version I liked via APK. But before that I had to delete the newer one, and when I did, Google deleted my entire collection of podcasts.Tech Fan hasn't been updating in 6 months, now my old episodes are gone forever.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5dJcb8MrnYbs7uHdQ by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @Andres4NY @paninid I used AI to rewrite my resume, pretty much because a friend of mine almost forced me to, and I excruciatingly went through every proposed change and argued with it.In my opinion, "more professional" to it just meant adding more fluff words to say the same thing, and since I am "older", it was already too long.And it of course agreed with me. Because I was right, or because it always agrees in the end? Acting like it even has an opinion in the first place is a mistake.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5dJcbTHc2HsuzgzEe by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @Andres4NY @paninid I got a chance to either slightly modify or defend every word and every sentence in my resume.I guess that is useful.But I also discovered that AI is blandifying, fluffing up, and averaging out everyone's' resumes. The people who have to read this slop at the end, after their AI spits out a dozen of the most average and repetitive resumes? I can't imagine how random that must feel, selecting among the most average of the average.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5dJcbdYzoVjQsVCG8 by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @praxiscode @Andres4NY @paninid absolutely. Every question an LLM 'answers' is "what does a response to this look like?". It has no capacity to understand the words, it just has a massive database of other people's sentence fragments and the probability that they go together.If you have a grasp of the topic you can spot its lack of specificity. And if you engage it in the tone of an expert it will regurgitate sentence fragments that are frequently said back to topic experts.1/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B5dJcbvHvugmJqnLt2 by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @praxiscode @Andres4NY @paninid 2/3It is honestly a good illusion of thought. And if you think of it as a way to survey what most people have written about something, it can be useful.For instance: "this is considered old fashion in a resume" was useful, and probably true. I would have liked to have left a "Seeking" section near the top of my resume, for its specificity and utility, instead of a "Summary", but I agree that these things are fads and swing into and out of favor over time.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5dJcc9T5C211pQfzM by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @praxiscode @Andres4NY @paninid 3/3As a way to know the "wisdom of crowds" - some utility. But I would never override an expert with an LLM. And corporate executives who might argue points they got from an LLM are just faking competence."Fake competence until you can get up to speed". Maybe they can sell that as a service for a year? Before having an LLM on your laptop in meetings goes out of style.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6GBv2D3iVumacooG8 by Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social
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       @benjancewicz My first thought:How about a flag with 86 stars and 47 stripes? What could be more patriotic in this 250th anniversary of the United States?