jennyholzer2
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At the start of 2025 I stopped buying Spotify and started buying Apple Music because I felt manipulated by the Spotify application's metrics-first design.
I felt that Spotify was trying to teach me to rely on its automated recommendations in place of any personal "musical taste", and also that those recommendations were of increasingly (eventually, shockingly), poor quality.
The implied justification for these poor recommendations is a high "Monthly Listener Count". Don't mind that Spotify can guarantee that any crap will have a high listener count by boosting it's place in their recommendation algorithm.
I think many people may have a similar experience on once-thriving social media platforms like facebook/instragram/X.
What I mean to say is that I think people associate the experience of being continually exposed to dubiously sourced and dubiously relevant metrics with the feeling of being manipulated by illusions of scale.
> Maybe we just don’t want every outlet turning into yet another hysteria-filled version of Reddit.
Give me a break. What do you think this is?
reads more like propaganda.
> Does your clairvoyance go any further than 2027?
why are you so sensitive?
You don't
AI is for idiots
ChatGPT and Claude Code are industrial strength fans designed to blow smoke up your ass at rates once thought impossible
this is why I say "AI is for idiots"
you're putting words in my mouth. i said the big STUPID neural nets.
This was a good faith observation.
In my experience, AI users are meaningfully stupider and more gullible than the rest of the population.
spoiler: it is not
AI developers are 0.1x "engineers"
"i'm happy to smoke crack while the dealer is paying for it"
i'm right and he's mad
AI is for idiots
it's not an insult, it's an observation
> The idea that LLMs make subtle mistakes that are somehow more subtle, insidious and uncatchable compared to any random 25 pull requests you get from humans is simply ridiculous.
This is plainly true, and you are just angry that you don't have a rebuttal
i feel my coworkers who use AI are slower, stupider, and less trustworthy than my coworkers who don't.
idiocy, delusion, propaganda, lies, and manipulation are a few terms i came up with off the top of my head
This guy's knowledge of art history is the Dada wikipedia page and the Banksy movie from 20 years ago.
Allow me to repeat myself: AI is for idiots.
You have to be particularly gullible to fall for these tactics. Especially when the quality of LLM products has declined over the last 18 months.
Allow me to repeat myself: AI is for idiots.
> What would be your recommendation on how to handle this constructively?
Ruthlessly bully LLM idiots until it becomes so embarrassing to use LLMs that no status-obsessed corporate executive would ever admit they spent years gleefully duped by hucksters selling "General AI"
developers or cult leaders
the US media has been doing this with Black people to great effect for hundreds of years. (the tacitly hateful) Democrats are as guilty of it as (the openly hateful) Republicans.
you are bending over backwards to figure out how to put "1.1x" in your comment
the idea that LLMs make developers more productive is delusional.
> I'd add a link to where I copied it from
LLMs can't do this.
Your code is unambiguously better than any LLM code if you can comment a link to the stackoverflow post you copied it from.
he's mad because he knows i'm right.
LLMs made him an idiot and now he only writes a sentence by himself when he wants to say the R word
edit: the original comment said "Hang yourself Ret*rd"
no hate but i would try to fire someone for saying that