All of this is AI content, but why? Why create fake pics of fake erasers? There isn't any money angle that I can see.
So, was this directed, or did "AI" just decide to make it up all on its own? Will we ever know? And is this what kids will be learning from? Is it what they *are currently* learning from?
Mark, Yegge is an idiot, not a genius. So many times I would come across his brand of "brilliance".
They often go by metrics: things that can be measured (lines of code) that may well be completely unrelated to real or perceived functionality. And certainly this flies in the face of efficiency when viewed in totality. Loads of expensive data centers sucking up water and electricity just so people can make crappy AI cartoons of things on the fly, and all my "service providers" can send me insincere automatic birthday greetings.
It's a constant race to find new ways to break down energy gradients, though Yegge and his ilk are unlikely to be aware of this driving factor.
"McKinsey claims AI consulting accounts for 40% of its revenue. They've built 25,000 AI agents for their 40,000-person workforce. They pitch blue-chip companies on how to adopt AI safely and effectively. And a solo security researcher with his own AI agent got full read and write access to their production database in two hours through what appears to be SQL injection, which is one of the oldest vulnerabilities in the book.
…McKinsey is now advising companies on technology it couldn't secure in its own house. CodeWall said its AI agent autonomously suggested McKinsey as a target, which is either a funny detail or a preview of how this is going to work going forward."
I'm glad you already mentioned Gabe and Tori, because I was about to send you there for some like-minded company! And a perceptive bunch you all are. Ten thousand lines of code is that much more to debug when then the AI bug detector doesn't work. After all, it was programmed with the same logic that generated the bug in the first place. So I think it's good you're retired, but not because you were about to become redundant. You'd be left with the tedium of editing while AI botched what could have been elegant.
Yes, trying to fix slop would have been a horrible experience. Quitting when I did also meant I avoided the mRNA Injection Mandate that my former employer instituted in 2021.
Here's a glimpse of our future:
For whatever unknown reason, late last night I had clicked on a link about "The Rise and Fall of Pink Pearl Erasers". I love Pink Pearl erasers!
https://vintage-pencil-erasers.topicbarn.com/pink-pearl-erasers
All of this is AI content, but why? Why create fake pics of fake erasers? There isn't any money angle that I can see.
So, was this directed, or did "AI" just decide to make it up all on its own? Will we ever know? And is this what kids will be learning from? Is it what they *are currently* learning from?
I think a lot of tech use makes sense only from the "Oh cool!" standpoint. People are delighted by gadgets that do stuff.
P.S. I love all that fake lettering in the third image of that article.
ALL the images have fake lettering! Yes, it invokes some kind of curious retro Eastern-European vibe.
Mark, Yegge is an idiot, not a genius. So many times I would come across his brand of "brilliance".
They often go by metrics: things that can be measured (lines of code) that may well be completely unrelated to real or perceived functionality. And certainly this flies in the face of efficiency when viewed in totality. Loads of expensive data centers sucking up water and electricity just so people can make crappy AI cartoons of things on the fly, and all my "service providers" can send me insincere automatic birthday greetings.
It's a constant race to find new ways to break down energy gradients, though Yegge and his ilk are unlikely to be aware of this driving factor.
I should have used <sarcasm> tags around words like "genius".
I just came across a crazy AI story on X:
"McKinsey claims AI consulting accounts for 40% of its revenue. They've built 25,000 AI agents for their 40,000-person workforce. They pitch blue-chip companies on how to adopt AI safely and effectively. And a solo security researcher with his own AI agent got full read and write access to their production database in two hours through what appears to be SQL injection, which is one of the oldest vulnerabilities in the book.
…McKinsey is now advising companies on technology it couldn't secure in its own house. CodeWall said its AI agent autonomously suggested McKinsey as a target, which is either a funny detail or a preview of how this is going to work going forward."
https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2032481058818605192
But think how long it might have taken them to create that vulnerability without AI! We can create bugs so much faster now!
I'm glad you already mentioned Gabe and Tori, because I was about to send you there for some like-minded company! And a perceptive bunch you all are. Ten thousand lines of code is that much more to debug when then the AI bug detector doesn't work. After all, it was programmed with the same logic that generated the bug in the first place. So I think it's good you're retired, but not because you were about to become redundant. You'd be left with the tedium of editing while AI botched what could have been elegant.
Yes, trying to fix slop would have been a horrible experience. Quitting when I did also meant I avoided the mRNA Injection Mandate that my former employer instituted in 2021.