Fun experiment: Ask Google if there are more stars in the solar system than grains of sand in a glass of water. See the AI confidently say “yes” and then refresh the query and see it confidently say “no”.

We are?

It is obvious, but we have so many liars lying to everyone and each other about AI that they get away with it. Skilled bullshitters shitting up clouds of smoke and using every manipulation tactic in the world.

Some hard evidence makes it easier to prevent their damage.

Just post your prompt, bro

This space filling word soup is just wasting people’s time

Nah. Gonna stick to gaming on my GNU GUIX through Proton thanks.

Linux is clearly not only good enough, but simpler too.

It’s just a ton of perception, habits and sales pipelines that need moving now. If electronics stores started putting out Linux Gaming PCs, nobody buying them would be worse off than Windows. That has been true for well over a year.

I keep seeing the “it’s good for prototyping” argument they post here, in real life.

For non-coders it holds up if you ignore the security risk of someone running literally random code they have no idea what does.

But seeing it from developers, it smells of bullshit. The thing they show are always a week of vibing gave them some stuff I could hack up in a weekend. And they could too if they invested a few days of learning e.g. html5, basic css and read the http fetch doc. And the learning cost is a one-time cost - later prototypes they can just bang out. And then they also also have the understanding needed to turn it into a proper product if the prototype pans out.

Hey I am not in need of convincing haha. Am Linux gamer and genuinely find it easier than Windows already.

It is.

And honestly, remembering the stuff I had to do to play the original Doom at a LAN party back in the day.

• Buy a sound card (some PCs came with, mine didn’t)
• Install the sound card drivers correctly
• Edit the computer’s config.sys file to assure the operating system drivers were loaded in such an order as to allow enough of Bill Gates’ 640 kb RAM available to load a game
• Borrow (!) a network card from my dad’s computer, and open up the PC to jam it in there
• Install network drivers
• Path the physical coaxial network cables through all PCs and terminate them correctly
• Configure the game to know which direct memory address (bank 1) and hardware interrupt request id (5) it needed to talk to the sound card
• Yes hello also find a smaller mouse driver and load it correctly because by now all the networking and audio stuff is making those 640kb tight

We all did that back then!

If someone was a “gamer” they were not afraid to do this because they either knew how or knew a friend who was happy to help.

Compare that to what I do today that most gamers consider “mind-numbingly super nerd impossible bullshit lol linux sux”, running GNU GUIX:

• Find a channel for the nvidia drivers. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
• Find a channel for Steam. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
• Oh no I had to add 2 more lines for nvidia by following clear documentation.

O hey everything just works. Proton kicks in automatically.

Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.

Reading it yeah… The claim is not very plausible.

CrowdStrike saying “we are safe” but then later doing a fuckup does not constitute intention to defraud.

I can totally believe that nobody else felt like bribing paying out of their nose to have a Guinness employee fly over and look at a small computer and go “yep its small”.

Don’t be so negative! It’s also found a huge market in scams. Both for stealing celebrity likenesses, and making pictures and video of nonexistent products.

They try to do security the same way, by adding “pwease dont use dangerous shell commands” to the system prompt.

Security researchers have dubbed it “Prompt Begging”

Agree, the term is misleading.

Talking about hallucinations lets us talk about undesired output as a completely different thing than desires output, which implies it can be handled somehow.

The problem it the LLM can only ever output bullshit. Often the bullshit is decent and we call it output, and sometimes the bullshit is wrong and we call it hallucination.

But it’s the exact same thing from the LLM. You can’t make it detect it or promise not to make it.

Wow so next time I have a burning need for agentic experiences in my life I know a product exists to serve my need.

It’s baffling how people in the US accept and even adopt the language of NDAs being trade secrets. They aren’t. It’s a weapon to make it harder for people to leave.

TBH he probably knows he is lying, but is making confusing claims in order to push some other agenda.

Probably firing core people to save money while maintaining plausiblish deniability that this won’t do irrepairable damage.

Or just to get himself approval for amassing subordinates for a little kingdom, by displaying an ambitious “plan”.

The expensive autocomplete can’t do this.

AI markering all wants us to believe that spoon technology is this close to space flight. We just need to engrave the spoons better. And gold plate them thicker.

Dude who wrote that doesn’t understand how LLMs work, how Rust works, how C works, and clearly jack shit about programming in general.

Rewriting from one paradigm to another isn’t something you can delegate to a million monkeys shitting into typewriters. The core and time-consuming part of the work itself requires skilled architectural coding.

Yeah what you say makes sense to me. Having it make a “wrong start” in something new is useful, as it gives you a lot of the typical structure, introduces the terminology, maybe something sorta moving that you can see working before messing with it, etc.