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It was, however, a reasonable bargain to make, but that is no longer the case when they do not hold up their end of the deal like this.
You do realize that this kind of rant leads to AI designed to better emulate humans? It will produce the same flavor of rambling sentences, slightly off grammar, and other indicators.
Companies will not stop using AI, so the net result can only be a degradation of customer support to the same shit level that we had previously endured. But now there are no longer humans in the loop, and you can no longer have the signal to tell you that you should stop engaging with them.
Arms races have no winners, and it will be no different in this scenario. Heck, how do you know this has not already happened? How do you really know the second email was written by a human and not by exactly the kind of AI subterfuge that I just described?
Shipping costs these days mean I do not even take advantage of warranties for most goods. The round trip cost for anything large or heavy often can represent a large portion of the original cost for many things.
No, I just add the brand to my List of Companies That Will Live in Infamy. Sony, Samsung, HP, Dell… the list is extremely long at this point. They have all produced inexcusably bad products that I had the misfortune of purchasing, and they will never see another dime from me or from anyone else wise enough to heed my advice to avoid them.
A choice that turned out badly after reflection of hindsight was not in fact good. At best, it was ignorant; at worst, negligent. Regardless, unavoidable; as you surmise, no one has a crystal ball.
People make bad choices all the time for many different reasons. Usually, “it seemed like a good idea at the time” is at the top of that list.
I have already given up the idea of getting heath care. I have top-shelf insurance that has all the preventative stuff included, but it is simply not worth the effort. The quality of care is not even worth my co-pay.
Why don’t humans get it right the first time?
Ask your LLM to review the PR before submitting it. Then make it fix the problems. Then repeat the process until there are no more problems. At each step, document where it went wrong in a guide; next time, it can use that guide and will make less errors.
In other words, treat it like a junior that has infinite enthusiasm and talent but zero existing habits or wisdom. If you are not doing something like this, then you are going to have a bad time.
Yeah, their lack of a satisfactory response is the final nail in their coffin. This incident escalates my consulting advice about Ubuntu from “not recommended” to “switch immediately”.
Some of my clients may be surprised by this change, as I once advocated for Ubuntu as a good choice for a development and deployment platform. While that has not been true for quite a while, they have now jumped the shark into eel-infested waters; I cannot take them seriously any longer.
What’s this now? A corporation lied to its customer? There’s no way they will get away with it, right? It’s not like we have given corporations a blank check and won’t prosecute malfeasance… oh, wait, nevermind.
So if they no longer have a contract, how is it legal for Flock to continue to use the allocated resources? Why not hit them with theft of service for continuing to draw power and use public infrastructure?
They will never change their behavior when there are no consequences for their actions.
Yup. As a principle SWE with over 30 years writing code, I can say that the business case for hand-written code is now almost completely gone. If you are still writing code entirely by hand and expect to profit from that labor, you are doing yourself or your employer a gross disservice.
Pascal’s Political Wager:
- If Musk wins: not satire.
- If he loses: satire.
It used to be true that no one got fired for buying IBM. Now, I would laugh at any organization that chooses IBM.
Times can change.
Violence is the only reason we have a civilization in the first place. How do you think we deal with people that do not play by its rules? Hint: we don’t just use our words.
That’s only if truth is valued more than lies. Based on the current status quo, that no longer seems to be a given.
Where is the profitability of truth in politics? In government? In media? Truth has fallen by the wayside.
The courts only care about the law, not truth or justice. Those are literally words that came out of a sitting federal circuit court judge.
People are being shown every day that truth can be whatever you want it to be. Until there are actual consequences for telling lies, nothing will change, and truth will continue to be increasingly irrelevant.
The justice system failed to prosecute a murderer. I somehow doubt the public has forgotten about it. And I am fairly sure some have not forgiven them for that failure.
I would not be surprised if justice now gets served vigilante style.
Are you familiar with guilt by association?
These people have made a choice to work at this organization. They could quit and find other work. Nobody is forcing them to serve the empire.
No one on this list is completely innocent.
Some contributors were already dead by the time the decision would have come to a head. Getting them to sign an agreement would have been challenging.
Legally reverse engineering a system is a lot harder than throwing an AI at it, at least if you think you might be called into court over it.
Because the administration has allowed the entire AI industry to attach its tendrils to every part of the economy. The size of the investment (and commiserate risk) in the bet that is AI makes it impossible for the government to course correct without having a potentially catastrophic negative impact. No one can afford for the music to stop.
I wasn’t really joking. Malicious compliance is a thing.
It is a shame that Debian has invited such behavior by this move.
Obciously the solution is to fight fire with fire. Spin up your own LLM and have it respond to every single point. Exhaustively. Have it ask semi-reasonable questions that must be answered by the humans.
I wager the resulting usage would drive the system costs up to the point that it would be dissembled and decommissioned. That only happens if the people behind it feel the cost personally.
> I'm actually curious if the plan is to have it take out a bunch of loans, strip the thing of assets, and dump it.
It’s the American Way!
So, they stole $31k from the children.
I am teaching my Ai to write good code, just as I have juniors at a dozen orgs in the past. I am teaching to be as good as me.
Your might be too young, but I remember the Graat Outsourcing. Engineering teams were replaced wholesale with overseas counterparts. The original engineers literally trained their own replacements.
Those companies have for the most part continued to thrive, despite the resulting enshitification of their products and services.
History says this time will be no different.
Nope, the quality is good. Any errors it makes are being caught in automated reviews. If you don’t have good review and testing processes, yeah, stuff will slip through. The same is true for humans. I would not put juniors above your cited error rate, so I would rather skip the squish.
They use completely different techniques. You do not need to learn how to use hand tools first, but most individuals are more likely to afford them.
Then again, you have the saftey factor. Some people should be given hand tools first, so you can see whether they can be trusted with power tools. Just as you would give a junior small tasks before trusting them with something bigger.
At our current rate of AI progress, I no longer expect this career to last until my retirement. It’ll be agents all the way down soon enough.
And I have been an AI skeptic, so it pains me greatly to admit that.
The ego thing is one of the biggest draw for me to AI. I hate working with other people. God damn fragile egos, arrogance, impertinence, and bad hygiene. I would pay extra for AI.