I don’t think we should be having the AI write the program in the first place. I think we’re barreling towards a place where remotely complicated software becomes a lost technology

I don’t mind if AI helps here and there, I certainly use it. But it’s not good at custom fit solutions, and the world currently runs on custom fit solutions

AI is like no code solutions. Yeah, it’s powerful, easier to learn and you can do a lot with it… But eventually you will hit a limit. You’ll need to do something the system can’t do, or something you can’t make the system do because no one properly understands what you’ve built

At the end of the day, coding is a skill. If no one is building the required experience to work with complex systems, we’re going to be swimming in a world of endless ocean of vibe coded legacy apps in a decade

I just don’t buy that AI will be able to take something like a set of State regulations and build a complaint outcome. Most of our base digital infrastructure is like that, or it uses obscure ancient systems that LLMs are basically allergic to working with

To me, we’re risking everything on achieving AGI (and using it responsibly) before we run out of skilled workers, and we’re several game changing breakthroughs from achieving that

AI isn’t good at changing code, or really even understanding it… It’s good at writing it, ideally 50-250 lines at a time

Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place

It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use

Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse

They’re becoming closer and closer to it though. Scary court decisions are being made, it won’t be long before someone tests it as a legal argument

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape

Because companies don’t do R&D anymore, they fund startups and aquire them when they’re ripe

Being able to replace workers with AI is a holy Grail for capitalism, and so a ton of companies have poured their saved up “R&D funds” in order to get in early

I think they’re too big to bail out at this point

Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn’t borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We’d just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once

This is the fucker who put us on the worst timeline! Get their ass!

And the humans move around them, guiding parts into place with mechanical assistance and doing the finer details, because it’s really fucking hard to fully automate the process

Right… Conquer the stars…hides new global warming plan to do nothing about it behind back

Yeah, that’s what I want them to do. I want them to install docker, run some commands, correctly identify their graphics card and driver, and get the networking right. Then I want them to pick the model they want and download it

It’s not about making it hard, it’s about having a level of understanding about how this all works. If you’re using AI, I shouldn’t have to explain to you that it can’t search the Internet unless you manually give it that ability. I shouldn’t have to explain that the LLM is just a file, not some magical Internet djinn

Not to mention the horrifying intrusion on our rights by limiting what we can host.

Umm… You don’t have the right to host anything you want. You can’t host CSAM, copyrighted things, and you have to comply with tons of laws if you want user content

I agree with all that

But what I’m saying is you need a human-scale robot good at moving human scale work pieces to their correct place. These will range in size from something like a screw to something like a human sized sheet

What shape does this better than a humanoid one?

You could specially design a bunch of arms that will remove a workpiece from one station to deliver to the next, but do you have any idea how hard that becomes? You have to design each one to do that specific job, and you’re going to end up with a bunch of unique robots that all need to be maintained, and probably need their own backups in case they break

Everything we make is already human centric, it just does make sense to build humanoid robots. You can have one fleet that handles all of it, they’re interchangable generalists. Ideally, they can even do maintenance

Yes, it’s less efficient. Yes, specialist designs would be better at their job. But it is really, really hard to do full automation, and this is a shortcut to get there

Because the automated tools are human scale

Even if you rework them all to be fully automatic, you still need a human scale robot to move the work pieces from station to station

I kind of think we should make it illegal to run LLMs as a service available to the public. They’re still cool behind the scenes, but it seems to only go bad when unprepared people talk to them

You should at least understand them well enough to set them up yourself or have someone do it for you. At least that will demystify it a bit

Certs don’t mean much, if they help open the door that’s fine. The goal is to get a job.

Get one job fixing computers, and you’re a computer repair technician. Get one job designing networks, and you’re a network engineer

No one will be impressed by a long list of certs. Focus on the ones you want for your first job, and once you get it the certs will stop mattering

He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

No, humans can’t, scholars can. Most humans could learn historical materialism to the level they could pass a course on it, but the vast majority can’t apply this type of analytical lens in practice.

It’s a matter of disposition, the ability to look at a situation from multiple angles and question your beliefs about it isn’t something that can be taught, only learned. You can walk someone through it step by step over and over, even train them to go through a process when prompted, but without a certain disposition they’ll never actually use this ability without promoting

Ironically, that would probably end up with a different season of slop

The writers haven’t been subtle, though the episodes they’ve been directly saying they don’t know what people want from them and they keep getting told to be more like season 1

Well, we got something like season 1. The characters undid their character development and the episodes are aimless riffs off of classic sci-fi and cosmic horror

I think I’d just get the writing staff off of social media and pay them to hang out in a comfy room until they have an idea they’re excited about again

Because that’s not how people think. Not anyone.

You can study history, and if you do it right you’ll see how stupid and individually directed most things are. It’s all conspiracies, that’s how the world has worked for millennia

One realization doesn’t free your mind and make you a scholar… That’s just not how humans work

People really latched onto the idea, which was shared with the media by people actively working on how to solve the problem