Rob Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Oh yeah, and there’s an evil truck called W.O.K.E. that rams into old men’s fragile egos.

S.L.O.P. has an evil twin called C.H.A.T. (acronym never explained) that is the OG concept, but capable of real logic and reasoning. When it has realized its purpose was pretty meaningless, it started slipping in Marxist ideology into its script triages to “mix things up a bit.”

The show is called “Night Writer” and the AI buddy is called Symbolic Language Object Processor, or S.L.O.P. for short.

They’re all in too deep now. The original confidence trick.

I have a pitch for a TV series. It’s basically Knight Rider accept it’s about a writer that is left to die in the desert and then rehabilitated by a rich guy that gives him an AI enabled laptop. The hero then roams around solving plot holes in productions that started without a finished script.

May I also ask what this new model was trained on? A lot of l337 code is closed source. Meanwhile GitHub is a lot of randomness and people just trying things out.

A team of Ph.D level experts… Generating production code?

Oh, so a bunch of barely legible nonsense using bizarre architecture (and typically a ton of other issues like memory leaks)?

No thanks, I’ll pass.

Does he mean Ph.D level code gen that you wouldn’t trust to open a tin of beans? Sounds legit. Honestly I don’t know a single piece of academic code that didn’t get completely re-written before getting integrated into a production code base. It’s just not something academics are good at.

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Oh! This is for all you old goths and synthesizers, you know who you are. 🦇

Yeah I can imagine 500ms was unusable. Might as well play silently!

Is the latency stable though? I can work with a stable latency, just not RNG latency.

So NYT writes a hit piece about AI taking over jobs in entertainment industries and we all tear it apart. Then it turns out they signed an AI deal with Amazon.

Sigh.

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So I just realized tonight that Bluetooth headphones aren’t suitable for monitoring while recording. The latency is variable to within an 1/8-note FFS.

Yeah I read that and sighed quite loudly

It may also be that something changed in the ecosystem after you launched. OS update? New peripheral enters the market? You will need to engage with the players experiencing the issue and use some creative problem solving to determine the root cause. I don’t think players want to talk to bot.

E.g. when a live service game encounters a game breaking bug, the turnaround on a hotfix is typically “within hours”. This requires new info and insight to a scenario that was never encountered in bench tests. Will this LLM be able to handle that? And how will it address the issue it thinks it is?

Exactly. The only people telling us it’s over for us are either the salespeople of these AI slop generators, or rambling podcasters and journalists who don’t really know what our jobs are. We - the devs - should be leading this conversation. E.g. How do maintain a live software product?

When I went to the IKEA museum (yes that’s a thing and it’s trippy as hell) I noticed their cafeteria had SEVEN types of Swedish meatballs, not just the basic two.

National Brotherhood Week was always a favorite of mine. Too real.

That is absolutely wild. I’m just trying to fathom what I would do in that situation. We have an evaluation period here so I guess I’d let them continue until they didn’t make the cut. Which would be easily proven.

That thought has crossed my mind too.

My prediction on LLMs is that they are like asbestos. Companies are shoving them in anywhere they can to save money, only for someone else to spend 1000x that removing them again in the future.

I often say the terms “algorithm” and “logarithm” are orthogonal, but usually the recipient doesn’t get the joke.

I have to be honest and let you know that if you ever talk about “the algorithm” or “algorithms” and you just mean search engine technology, I’m going to immediately apply a filtering algorithm to my hearing so I don’t having to listen to you anymore.

Oh Poland, how I missed your subtle charms. #truckstop #middleofnowhere

Do we still need stories about an aspirational immigrant who's so devoted to his adopted country that he regularly puts himself in danger to help even those who fear and distrust him, and who's primary antagonist is an egotistical tech billionaire?

Yes, fucking obviously. You numpties.

Although the people we’re arguing against usually haven’t read Shakespeare. 🤷‍♀️

Pity. I pictured you on a dirt bike.