Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Promptfondler proudly messes with oss project (OpenAI subreddit)
To be clear nothing in the post makes me think they actually did what they are claiming, from doing non-specific āfixesā to never explicitly saying what the project is other that that it is āmajorā and āused by manyā to the explicit ā{next product iteration} is gonna be so incredible you guysā tone of the post, itās just the thought of random LLM enthusiasts deciding en masse to play programmer on existing oss projects that makes my hairs stand on end.
Here they are explaining their process
Amazing how much tech hype nowadays is āthe next version will be great!ā. Parts of this always have existed, and there is also the other part of tech hype āYou donāt get it, this isnāt just tech, this allows you to be A Platform!ā. Vast fields of new possibilities, always just out of reach. Fusion is 17.6 years away people!
E: Related to that, also see how people always need to shift to the next big thing. The next codebase will fix your problems, no the next new AI system will be better, dump the old and learn the new thing. (Donāt forget to not notice you are not actually doing things, just learning new systems over and over).
crickets
there are errors and you read them into the ai. Someone alerted that a build wasnāt working.
Somebody set up us the bomb. Main screen turn on.
Figuring out a codebase from first principles.
what is the function of #include
That person is getting paid twice as much as you now for using chatgpt to code. And they still donāt know what #include means.
Itās you!
https://youtu.be/qE6emvdmg-M
Oh man this is just as good/bad as I remember.
I swear to god it was like 50 years ago it feels, but I still remember everyone responding to criticism of ChatGPT with āGPT 4 is going to be much better just waitā.
That was this year, third april in the year of our lord covid 2020
Donāt forget to read OPs ātakeā on the Halting Problem.
I was mentally prepared to get irrationally angry, but fortunately this is such incoherent word salad that itās not even wrong.
Amazing that when there is pushback against his ideas he starts to ad hominem call people professors.
(there was this talk/article about how to recognize a crank I forgot the link/source but iirc āreacting badly to pushbackā and āalways trying to solve the biggest open problems firstsā are two things on the list).
I need a shorter name for the whole genre of person thatās on way too many uppers and wonāt stop using ChatGPT all night to make all their decisions, cause we keep running into them and for some reason all of them are obsessed with CS woo
maybe weāre really just witnessing what happens when your ānootropicā habit gets out of hand and youāre still in debt from gambling on crypto, so you get high as shit and convince yourself youāre a genius because whenever you read the tea leaves they tell you exactly what you expected to hear. this is, unfortunately, how cults tend to form.
āPresumably-outsourced non-thinkerā but unfortunately itās not as snappy as promptfans and promptfondlers
Prompt-deciduous?
They are having a delirium supported by ML, so Promptlerius?
At least they get called on being a word salad merchant in that sub, the response in r/openai is basically rapturous.
Like OP, I also learned about Gƶdelās incompleteness theorems and was struck with a sense of profundity despite not having the mathematical grounding to come to any meaningful conclusions from this. Unlike OP, I donāt ramble about the things I donāt really understand.
(I do, however, ramble about protein structure and biochemistry, which is very cool, and also my jam)
I donāt even get what the guy is claiming to do here. Hope he didnāt try sending his fixes upstream.