come on don't you like waiting 1s+ for every single action you ever want to take? it's the hot new thing
froztbyte
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ah yes, content from the well-known community mod Cursid Meier
1990s dialup: barely only once
it's above-baseline among the tpots (at least relative to other areas I've observed it)
how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I haven't gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)
I was struck by the outright "hey we've got cult camp" kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they've done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as "people are cyborgs now"
although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I'm wondering if that's a thing that I missed in others of this before
of things I've found in the space that do address this somewhat includes this (a list of domains of either explicitly full of slop or heavily supporting slop)
brave supposedly has something as well but, well, it's brave so it's a non-starter
this is a now-archived project that maintained a list of chat widgets
regarding instances of widgets, off the top of my head some places where I've seen chat prompts unhelpfully placed: pluginboutique.com, hetzner.com, most aws doc and product pages ("Explainer"). I think hydro.run also had some trash popping up (I have a block for it), but can't recall under which section
(DDG also pops some up constantly unless you have the cookies set, but that fails in fresh browser instances)
looking for advice/suggestions:
anyone seen anything yet (uBlock ruleset, {tamper,grease}monkey scripts, etc) that can block the "talk to our prompt" widgets that have started showing up on too many fucking webpages? I'm getting sick of the things, and I haven't really yet found an exhaustive list of this shit from which to build up a list
reducing the 100r folks to “a gamedev studio” is abysmal, ew.
we already had quines at home. I’ll have to try see if I can budget quaking in my boots at scary-pictures-on-the-wall quines. hard call tho
in which karpathy goes "eh, fuckit":
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There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it.
The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
skipping past the implicit assumption of "well, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticks", the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain "well, it often just doesn't work like we keep promising it does", imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy
I'm left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me
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sounds a bit of a xy question imo, and a good answer of examples would depend on the y part of the question, the whatever it is that (if my guess is right) your friend is actually looking to know/find
“AI” is branding, a marketing thing that a cadaverous swarm of ghouls got behind in the upswing of the slop wave (you can trace this by checking popularity of the term in the months after deepdream), a banner with which to claim to be doing something new, a “new handle” to use to try anchor anew in the imaginations of many people who were (by normal and natural humanity) not yet aware of all the theft and exploitation. this was not by accident
there are a fair of good machine learning systems and companies out there (and by dint of hype and market forces, some end up sticking the “AI” label on their products, because that’s just how this deeply fucked capitalist market incentivises). as other posters have said, medical technology has seen some good uses, there’s things like recommender[0] and mass-analysis system improvements, and I’ve seen the same in process environments[1]. there’s even a lot of “quiet and useful” forms of this that have been getting added to many daily use systems and products all around us: reasonably good text extractors as a baseline feature in pdf and image viewers, subject matchers to find pets and friends in photos, that sort of thing. but those don’t get headlines and silly valuation insanity as much of the industry is in the midst of
[0] - not always blanket good, there’s lots of critique possible here
[1] - things like production lines that can use correlative prediction for checking on likely faults