Socialize the costs. Privatize the profits.

I guarantee I will never use this information. But thank you anyway.

I love the vertical task bar in KDE. It does exactly what I want it to, and that’s so refreshing.

Sadly I’m in this boat. We use Oracle database and have stored procedures all over the place. For us, the cost to convert everything would probably be huge.

I’d love to switch to PostgreSQL.

I would suggest against self driving cars for this very reason. The kind of thing in the article is not a hazard while driving.

The kind of quality assurance you’re talking about is astronomically expensive. Software has gotten a lot more complex over the past couple decades. And just because it came on physical media and could not easily be patched doesn’t mean that it didn’t have bugs. Far from it.

I have a used 2017 Chevy Bolt that I absolutely adore. I bet I could pretty easily disable the OnStar if I was so inclined and paranoid about it somehow getting updates. But I doubt I need to do that.

And take years to learn how to use well

Heaven fucking forbid that a person dedicates themself to learning a perfecting a craft. Meanwhile, you sloppers are out here thinking you’re gonna take over the entertainment industry with your, “Yo Sora, make me a movie that’s like Pulp Fiction crossed with Fight Club with supernatural elements.”

Who cares if people make AI “slop” when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?

Because that’s all that it’s good for. Every year it’s, “Oh this is going to be so much better in 6 months, bro. It’ll be able to generate full movies by then, for sure, bro.” And every year it does get better, but it’s still complete and utter garbage. It’s still slop.

And even if it’s not slop, LLM tech is basically just a repackaged soulless slurry of existing media. Unless there is a fundamental breakthrough in AI tech, it will always be that. LLMs just work that way. It is a limitation of the technology.

If you can’t see that, then you truly don’t understand what this tech is.

Smart phones record exceptionally high quality video. Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.

People who want to make stuff will find a way to do it.

Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.

People don’t need AI slop at all. At least meat provides sustenance.

You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.

People who don’t have the drive to make things without AI well never produce anything of value with AI.

And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.

Meat, whether you think it’s moral or ethical or not, serves a need. People need to eat. People don’t need AI slop.

It’s kind of like saying, “Well yeah I leave this 50kw diesel generator running 24/7. It’s way less environmentally damaging than meat. No, I’m not using the power it generates for any real purpose, but who cares, it’s environmentally friendly!”

My Internet-connected Linux computers are pretty fucking rad.

What do you mean by “get a horse”?

You fundamentally misunderstand what happened here. The LLM wasn’t trying to break free. It wasn’t trying to do anything.

It was just responding to the inputs the user was giving it. LLMs are basically just very fancy text completion tools. The training and reinforcement leads these LLMs to feed into and reinforce whatever the user is saying.

Same. I kinda like it.

I run Rancher Desktop on Windows… But only because my company won’t let me use Linux, and I only use it for Dev and testing.

All that to say, I have no idea why else you would be running a container engine on a Windows host.

Hell, not even junior devs. I need to be able to come back to code months or years later and be able to figure it out. I can only remember so much.

No. Both are hard to maintain. And in fact, I’d prefer the spaghetti. It can be untangled.