Posts by zzt@mas.to
(DIR) Post #BAIXlkS51Rf9BePxWy by zzt@mas.to
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> Game Developers see "AI" as a liability, Players see "AI" output as asset-flip vapourware. When people hear that "AI" is part of a project, many of them lose trust in that project. This holds true even when it's "just" code. It's viewed as an abdication of responsibility, an abdication of care.>> People are consistently picking up on "AI" tells in video, writing, images, no matter the "improvements" in models. This is a matter of needing to filter out information from the world. "AI output" is noise, not signal, and in order to make human connections over a mediation layer like the internet you need to be able to filter out noise quickly.
(DIR) Post #BAIXlkwvAmKgjIqabQ by zzt@mas.to
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also, it’s important to point this out: Bevy went from an apparently anti-AI but in practice centrist policy to a policy that’s being presented as centrist but is in practice extremely pro-AIif you wanted a worked example of why centrist AI policies are horrible, this is it
(DIR) Post #BAIXllPzQhaKBSRnua by zzt@mas.to
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please keep this article in your back pocket for the next project that does a Bevy or a Debian and starts making broad gestures towards a supposedly centrist AI policyit may or may not be too late for Bevy under its current leadership and community, but for any project that’s not too far gone, this article is a very effective warning of things to come
(DIR) Post #BALHFEoW6K7Q0JGgNM by zzt@mas.to
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unfortunately I have to announce that the silliness of this goose is severe enough that there’s a 10% chance it wipes out humanity
(DIR) Post #BALHHne3ZPE6bub4e8 by zzt@mas.to
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no one will be left to value it
(DIR) Post #BAOxZUQoWW0dmYOt4C by zzt@mas.to
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this is real capitalism, practiced by real capitalists
(DIR) Post #BAOxZVvKyW1GPVgmHY by zzt@mas.to
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when your cat opens and closes its mouth and makes a little chittering noise and it looks like talking? that’s just an American word for codingwhen you cook cod for dinner? that’s codingthis is so easy for AI because famously in code there’s exactly one right answer and it’s not the best answer(??). coding is an important part of it (????)
(DIR) Post #BAOxZWWYk7nGGx6VIe by zzt@mas.to
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returns. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO return SINCE I BEGAN TO ceo. THERE ARE 387.44 billion dollars OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY factories. IF THE WORD returns WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF billions OF dollars IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE returns I provide FOR investors AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR the economy. returns. returns.
(DIR) Post #BAOxZX8qRmQ0Bh14yW by zzt@mas.to
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anyway thank fuck there’s a sane reason why guys like James Schneider are feeding everyone’s retirement money into IPOs for the AI companies Jensen’s propping up, right?
(DIR) Post #BAOxZXj0HLLFzpvxKq by zzt@mas.to
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“the returns are too great. they’re too good” — somehow said as a positive and not a dire warning
(DIR) Post #BAPMgZNv0GTg1eWE1g by zzt@mas.to
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is there a foss version of linux
(DIR) Post #BAQmoGBT4EFKl4yzGi by zzt@mas.to
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@davidgerard > custom compiled desktops for every user! what?the codegooners keep promising this with LLMsI actually do this! people are gonna fucking hate it if I ever release it because it turns your whole environment into an editor, but unlike the LLM bros I’m realistic about what fucking software looks like
(DIR) Post #BARBEDKqg9gsLuHN7Q by zzt@mas.to
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the “software bill of materials” guys seem to be mostly very opposed to listing and calling out projects that are filled with slop, for some reason
(DIR) Post #BARBEEzeVvvLUkNTMG by zzt@mas.to
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what if it was always about exploiting labor
(DIR) Post #BARBEFl9fJvBs4bPOq by zzt@mas.to
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anyway I guess all of my projects with dependencies (aka all my projects) are going to have a massive section in their readmes about which dependencies are fucking slop and how bad it is and why I’m pinning to version xand the codegooners don’t have this problem because instead of doing dependencies, they just have their slopbots slop out a bad plagiarized version of something else
(DIR) Post #BARBEGRL8TfJyuL69Y by zzt@mas.to
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the “uhm you’re just doing purity culture” guys (fuck you cory doctorow) when I have no choice remaining but to build on top of some amount of slop and I have to make decisions that limit the damage that slop can do to me
(DIR) Post #BARBEH6oeGqI3XkDnk by zzt@mas.to
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weird how all these big brain thonkpieces from serious boys dissolve on contact with realitymy software isn’t pure and never has been, but that doesn’t stop slop from being severe damage I need to route aroundmy 3D printer isn’t a fucking replicator, cory. fuck you
(DIR) Post #BAaD4t3tTEsZ6phssy by zzt@mas.to
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“you’ll be left behind” said some codegooner with 1000 vibecoded projects on github, each of them abandoned as soon as it got impossible to maintain
(DIR) Post #BAaD4uk7DkFMK4T7Kq by zzt@mas.to
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oh no! I’ll be left behind by the kinds of people who don’t believe in software dependencies, can’t maintain their own software, and act like dickheads in every interaction I’ve ever had with them?
(DIR) Post #BAaD4vTqTipIbtrdc8 by zzt@mas.to
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whatever will we do without such testaments to human achievement as Gas Town, Steve Yegge’s awful “agentic harness” that prompts hundreds of LLMs to pretend to be middle managers and which he recently admitted is pointless and unmaintainable (you don’t say)what will we ever do without openclaw, a piece of software that invented nothing other than an entire class of fucking obvious security holes and new ways to spend your savings on tokens doing such tasks as: semiautomatically sending harassing emails to community admins. pretending the bot wrote a post about bot discrimination all on its own. incorrect travel plans. spending more tokens.