A downward spiral that ended more or less there.

We had been together for a couple years, long distance. she was a couple months from moving back.

Start of conversation, I say: Kate said that the renfest tickets were about to go on sale

Who’s Kate.

Kate at work, there’s a crew that goes every year, we should go.

What else do you and Kate talk about?

Devolves into wanting an index of female friends and leading questions of if they are nice…

Mind you, we’d not been fighting; I was always accountable and on time. We had just spent most of a week together.

Near the end, she made it an “it’s either me or her…”

Kate is gay… I could have went down that path, But at this point, “woah woah woah, give me your key, we’re done”

I never regretted that.

Nah, the inflection is you’re next.

My ex tried this shit with me talking to any women. I had never, even once, given her any hint of inpropriety.

I ended it there, that day, and just stayed single for the next year or so.

God no. In retrospect, it’s hundreds to thousands of hours of my time I could have just blocked them and been helpful to others or enriched myself. If someone really wants to argue bullshit on the internet, they’re doing nothing but wasting what time humanit has left here.

With a carousel of 3 poorly AI-generated images.

Wide scoping like that rarely ends well. Give it the list, tell it to spin a new agent for every single issue and operate on them separately. If any of those agents run out of context memory, it will just shit the bed. Clarify that you need the test to actually work and not be commented out, and that the tests themselves still need to be viable and indicate a healthy working app, not just report that it’s healthy. Trying to get tests happy in AI is like making wishes on a monkey’s paw. Then assign someone to look after it because that bastard will chew through 10’s of thousands of dollars to fix a laundry list of tests, which in my dev experience will be all broken and ignored in 2-3 minor releases.

You can generally get it to do things, even somewhat complicated things, but it’s not easy, and the shit it gives you back while you’re trying to convince it to do the job is the same stuff you’d fire an employee over.

My favorite thing is to make it make ansible tools, They’re easy to read, easy to lock down, keys and passwords go in a vault that it’s forbidden to read. Then I have it write runbooks on how to operate the playbooks. I then make an index of runbooks, and ask it to do them. It’s an ansible job, so I can read it easily and make sure it’s not able to delete my drive or my production database.

If I lose access to cheap tokens, everything I’ve making is still usable, and for now, I can spend my time working on stuff that’s not simple enough that it can handle it well.

Many people say that AI hit its limit and peak

Oh probably not, but it is really really expensive to run. If they continue on with unlimited funding, they can eventually replace mid to upper level experts in most fields.

We’ve likely hit the limit for the current LLM approach. Training/Pruning/Distilling can’t get us much further on their own, so now we’re strapping on code, having it plan, parallel execute, test. Tokens are likely 10x less expensive on the market than they cost to generate. Every advance we make now is by making each request fire off many more requests. Improvements are getting exponentially expensive.

We’ll have to slow because financially * it’s not profitable. Maybe hardware will catch back up. Maybe they’ll find ways to make it more efficient. Maybe we’ll figure out a more elegant way to do the math for the weights. We just can’t keep making it more deeply complicated because it’s not cost/energy/time effective

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The interesting bits are when it derives the likely hood of something being correct and does more passes, or splits the data apart in the first pass and opens up new context processes with specialized instructions to handle it. The code stuff goes full on ororborus on some models, writes out the code on one pass, checks for issues on another pass, runs the code looking for errors on a third pass and goes back to step 1 if it fails.

They’re getting a lot out of it for it primarily just being a weighted token generator wrapped in an orchestrator.

How to tell who invested heavily in AI with one easy trick.

Infrastructure (440 points – 17.6%) Economy (415 points – 16.6%) Workforce (345 points – 13.8%) Quality of Life (290 points – 11.6%) Cost of Doing Business (285 points – 11.4%)
Technology & Innovation (245 points – 9.8%) Business Friendliness (225 points – 9%) Access to Capital (105 points – 4.2%) Education (100 points – 4%) Cost of Living (50 points – 2%)

Florida probably pulled it out on business, Infra and Economy. They own tourism and have outlandishly good growing seasons for exports.

With a feeling* of satisfaction on completion that i’ve never felt at any job.

Perhaps I should have chosen a different career path.

(/s|/not(s))

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Yeah, My phone has more AI than I want already. cameras don’t need that what-so-ever

What I really want is to be able to record my son at a track meet. Only during his heats, I’d like to be able to look at him with my own eyes and record what i’m seeing with something like a 3x zoom. The camera could be an external, removable addon. when I don’t need it, it’s off.

I’ve had it stop/start the adapter and clear DNS cache before

I’ve also had it disable/enable sound drivers before.

For it to actually do anything, it has to either be a clear local networking issue or show up exactly as the right type of hardware failure where you can still get to the device and it responds, but it’s not doing it’s job.

Checks the Star Trek socialism playbook. Ohh check that, the drinks are already free.

The math behind old person hobbies is easy.

Your body is slowly failing
You’re income limited
Your mobility is slowly declining
Your stomach is starting to limit your diet
You need a hobby with pretty low upkeep and super high availability.

Mine was 75% commercial ads and 15% DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO THIS IS PARKED ON THE PUBLIC STREET IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE I NEED TO BE ABLE TO PART THERE ITS TOO FAR TO WALK

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poo poo poo poo libs are bad
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whatche watche watche out ads
whatche watche watche out ads

1. They’re not a great design
2. Screws are made as cheaply as possible
3. People assume their drivers last forever. Just a tiny bit of tip damage and they’re grind up any screws.
4. Philips in impact drivers is a sin.

edit: 5. There are different Philips sizes; any Philips will fit in any equal or larger plus-sized hole, but barely engage and both strip the screw and the driver.

It was from a blood sacrifice to try to raise mcturtle