Aphyr weighing in with an ai position post:
Even if ML stopped improving today, these technologies can already make our lives miserable. Indeed, I think much of the world has not caught up to the implications of modern ML systems—as Gibson put it, “the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet”.
For my own services I’m aiming for .999999% of uptime
You just gotta appreciate that the most deterministic part of the code base is the predatory lootbox system.
Hold on now, the uptime number contains two digits that are nines! The image itself has four nines in total!
This thread by Johnny reading (skimming on a phone, hah) through it is really good.
If only literally any human with context and a small screen to look at the bigger picture was involved with decisions around taking this to production, it would … still be bad but only on a societal level.
Heh. Who goes AI?
Never love the need for these parlor games, but it’s a good one.
Ah, of course! I come from a corp culture where co-workers were also called customers (“users” actually but you know)
Yeah, almost the entirety of use cases for genai chatbots is contempt for one’s customers.
I’m like 60% sure he will self-incinerate when exposed to sunlight
My heart goes out to my fleeting online acquaintance who’s seemingly but reliably two years too late to hype a trend. 2024 it was blockchain/cryptocurrencies that he tried pushing, now he’s saying AI technology companies are here to stay.
Somebody’s gotta buy the reverse reverse Cramer index I guess.
Yeah, soatok has been doing really good work there. It’s disappointing that the matrix folks don’t seem to take it seriously.
Ooh, that’s really cool. Also, very sobering section on the various e2e methods that are a pretty thorough indictment of all the chat systems out there.
I’m still happy with Pushover. Hasn’t changed in a decade (and a half?! Been using that since 2012, damn), works really pretty well.
It’s not self-hosted but when there are push notification services on the path, nothing really is.
If Tate loses his job, who’s to say if that’s good or bad
(No but really it’s bad, very bad)
That can’t be entirely it. Do you call Alexa the voice assistant tool “she”?
Oh man, if genAI destroys the profession of toxic masculinity podcaster watch me turn booster on a dime
That is pretty sad to see, but also, who refers to Claude as “he”? This is the second time I’m seeing this and it makes me skin crawl
Mildly positive news: there is a fork of the Zed editor with the llm autocomplete stuff ripped out now: https://gram.liten.app/posts/first-release/
(I’ve used zed with the ai kill switch and really like the buffer/editing ux; but it’s always felt a bit gross, I’m excited to see where the fork goes)
Yeah, they rebranded when they did the harebrained pivot to focus on cryptocurrencies.
Is it their next model that tbey swear isn’t vaporware but no! It is too dangerous to release into the world because it’ll find too much insecure code or whatever.