mym1990

So far in my experience the students actually seem fine with the instructors and TAs, but are complaining that 400 pages of reading over the course of half a semester is too much. They complain that the reading is repeating the lecture material and is a waste of time, or that the papers we are reading are dated(despite the concepts still holding true). By rigor, I don't mean busy work, I mean students don't have the attention span to sit down for any length of period and execute on the material they need to learn. They don't want to study for "useless exams" and don't seem to want to be assessed on anything really.

I am doing a masters program at a pretty reputable and highly ranked school...there is a good bit of complaining going on about there being too much reading, content being too dense, tests being a useless waste of time...just overall laziness. This is for one of the easier classes in the program. It is too bad, it feels like the rigor is being taken out of everything, any sign of 'effort' being exerted in academics or otherwise is immediately met with complaining.

It really depends, and its hard to saw what "low" vs "high" rates means. Within different economies, low could be 0, 5, or 10. Depending on where you are in the business cycle, high rates could actually signal a hot economy and low rates could mean a cold one(or trying to jump start borrowing). Low rates all the time and high rates all the time probably isn't good, its a dance.

I think a lot of it actually comes down to the perception of where the content came from. I brainstorm and riff with AI all the time, but I know what I am communicating with, I don't get the same sense of ickyness. Blogs and books and all these things that are claimed be to written by a human, but are actually just AI, is frustrating. Honestly, the content may be perfectly fine, but I feel something irritates humans when they think they have been deceived.

Reading through the first chapter, I got the feeling that it is more human than a lot of the books you might find on O'Reilly or wherever. I totally support the use of AI to help with organizing material in better ways or creating different modalities for representation. I really hate when the book is very clearly just copy pasting the output of the LLM.

Also, saw your comment response, I do feel this very same guarding and unfortunately my instinct is to assume the content is AI, which is a disservice to all the people who are putting their hard effort into putting out quality things.

I guess my first questions would be: what kind of background does the creator have in law to be able to steer this system to a good outcome? If they don't have a legal background, were legal experts and otherwise consulted to build this out? The fact that the creator is struggling with even understanding what open source is, makes it much harder to put any faith in this system.

This isn't that uncommon for many technologies, people and especially organizations who are procuring software look for signals that can offload perceived risk. These signals can be things as small as the formation of a company at all, or other ongoing partnerships which shows more social trust. Whether or not the company or provider is actually safe is a different conversation though.

I feel like its more just that correlation is not causation, a widely popular idea outside of hackers and tinkerers.

But a photography contest is not a “take a picture with your camera” contest. Post processing dictates a decent portion of “photography” and it seems like the rules for this processing are a bit of a grey area. I personally hate where it has gotten to, as a photographer, but just pointing out my observations in the assessment.

Pretty every industry these days has a software component, but software is a major revenue driver specifically in the tech sector, so of course this is where a lot of LLM usage is showing up. Tech is also a sector where "build fast and break stuff" is a common ideology, and LLMs play right into that. There is also a long warm up period to writing production code via LLMs in industries that still run a lot of their infrastructure on old mainframe code(it is understandable), banks for example, or public sector, or energy. LLMs at the current grade are still a fairly new phenomenon, it will take time.

So is every other “concept” in the world, doesn’t make them useless. You can “appreciate” yourself and your folk in a way that makes you more likely to take care of yourself and them. Scars can often have very negative effects on self esteem, and are a real mental hurdle for some people, are those feelings invalid?

I feel like if a “friend” is posting that stuff in an obituary, it sheds a little more context on their type of relationship and humor. But who knows, I guess the way you paint it, it does seem kind of rude.

Seemed to me like a nice write up with a bunch of anecdotes, I got the sense that Bob was curious, friendly, smart, maybe hopped around from idea to idea(reminds me of me!), and generally lived a good life, made some things(the YouTube video seemed interesting).

My whole point is that you can run this loop endlessly, come away with a lot of articles, yet be no where nearer to anything valuable.

Its laws in the way that a homeowner or renter signs a contract with the HOA that lists the rules that owners and renters must abide by or be penalized for breaking(fines, liens, not criminal I think)

Because in many places, having things in your front yard is not a crime? It could be car parts, could be children's toys, could be trash. If you don't have a city that enforces that, HOA or a management company which the owner/renter goes into contract with is the best way to manage that.

But this is great...there is a market for homes with HOAs and for homes without HOAs. The reason is clearly because homes that are more cookie cutter with standard features retain their value because there are fewer people on the market who want a lavender house. The HOA is partly responsible for upkeeping the homogeneity by enforcing some of these things, thereby keeping values stable. Depending on the HOA, the board can also be full of people on a power trip, but that's pretty dependent on the geographical area(looks like Florida may not be great) and case by case basis.

Right...so why would I read something trying to convince me that HOAs are making the crisis worse, and actually be swayed by it?

Sorry, looks like OP already did that, I guess you'll need to find a new topic.

Sorry, I'm not going to spend an hour reading every LLM article to figure out if its truthy, and then come up with the counter arguments against it, and on and on. The whole point of a human source is that depending on the source, I can already trust that they did some leg work to get the data and do the research, and they already have something to their name that I can trust. LLMs write in such a way that everything looks believable, so you spend 10x the time trying to find what is false.

We're just talking about one article here, but its an ocean of garbage being generated out there, yeah...go argue against all those and you'll waste your whole life.

It’s literally like 90% text, and it’s not an insignificant amount of text.

I can prompt an LLM to refute this and it would give me 5 reasons HOAs are making things better. Hard to read this and really come away with a sense of what the truth is. HOAs and homeowners have always been at odds but HOAs do provide some benefit in large communities. I hardly feel like they are making the “home crisis” worse.

These are two types of engineers that, at some places, aim to find loopholes that immensely help themselves while immensely hurting others, maybe as collateral, maybe by design. The fact that you’re so gung-ho about this…is alarming.

I don't know how much more cost effective AI bots are for customer service over offshore call centers currently, but I would guess that the industry sees the AI tooling getting much better over the next X years, while call center agents are going to be relatively level in terms of skill, so companies are investing early on in the technology. To be honest, my favorite customer service experience are ones where I tell a bot the issue, and they just refund me my cost, widely seen on delivery apps and Amazon. This is ripe for moral hazard but I'm sure there is monitoring happening for that as well.

I can respect this view point! I don’t really get fired up against fence sitters, I understand not wanting to be part of the mess. …but at the same time OP seems to have lost all social life and has become a recluse because of it? That is an interesting outcome and one that sounds to have more to it.

As I said, maybe I should be a fortune teller!

I guess some explanation on why you think it’s an atrocious response would be a good start.

This is a bait comment because any push back will just re-affirm your stance and I don’t know if you’ll find much agreement here otherwise. Millions of people died in WWII defending against ideas that are actively being brought by a clear side.

FWIW it’s not that hard to be a fence sitter and not advertise it to everyone. It sounds like either you’re hanging with the wrong people, or you’re the problem. I guess go back to playing with your toys!

I know friends and family with many kinds of beliefs, we don’t rehash why they believe those things every time we see each other. Humans are complex /shrug

I agree, I have not paired in a while, but I am actually curious if there is a place for 2 or more people to collaborate on prompts and prototyping in real time. It’s not necessarily for code quality but just making sure the output is starting in a good place. Not all the time, but every once in a while, could make for some interesting learning.

I am pretty torn on remote work and I say that as someone that benefits pretty greatly from it. Between remoteness and the rise of AI, I feel like there is basically no social interaction anymore, and I would be curious to see what an in person environment with AI looks like. It may be awful, but I am just curious. I know it won’t be a popular opinion.