Andrew Yourtchenko

Makes total sense. Have you already seen lots of “it’s not me, it’s AI” blame shifting? One can’t both claim the ownership of an LLM-generated content and disclaim the responsibilities that arise from such ownership…

are you planning to add something to that post ? It doesn’t read like a post, more like a placeholder of a future post…

Arguably beats my personal favourite “west of the equator”. Which model ?

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That’s what LLM rage looks like, I suppose ?

So uh, it appears the US constitution's official version on constitution.congress.gov has whole sections removed from it: slrpnk.net/post/25696399

Amongst others being the removal of the section saying "habeas corpus shall not be suspended"

What are you actively doing to mitigate it ?

By that time Norway will probably have UBI so you’re fine :-)

There’s always an option to switch a field. Find something else that you are good at and see how much it would pay as a job. If it is above - switching is a no brainer. If it’s below the current rate, you can then view the delta as a hazard pay - and evaluate whether it’s worth it.

Until the majority of the people start refusing to dig their own graves (I deliberately took the macabre example there because the phenomenon is very deep inside the human brain and shows even in much more extreme cases), you’re working against the systems dynamics.

civilmediation.org/bullying-wor... is one of the sources, as an example. Maintaining the healthy work environment is one of the few purposes of the management - so the increase in bullying I automatically attribute to management fail.

You need a boat - but the point still stands. I think we are witnessing the moment where “programming for outcomes” and “programming for joy” may diverge. And this is fine imho - it’s how most everything else evolved. The other - *parallel* trend is the more paychopatic management patterns emerging.

Well, he *actually* has a point - at present we keep the “specs” and “user stories” and whatever other stuff separate - but they + implicit experience of the humans that translate it into runnable squiggles, is the true “source”. That’s why new devs urge to rewrite others code - they miss it.

IMO being worried about the absurdity that I can’t influence is the same as being worried about the rain when going out - I will be probably wet but certainly unhappy. Humans are too good at local optimums, and now with dopamine conditioning even more so. So, figure out what is an umbrella :-)

now you know why I turn to vibe-coding for “boring trivial things” besides others :-) besides that it’s easier to argue, in the end it will turn out that there were GoodReasons(tm) to do it this way, that you didn’t stumble upon ! (I have been on the “other side” for far too many times :)

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

He makes a big leap of faith there - a PEG => C compiler is a well defined function that transforms one text into another, is auditable, and the changes to it that change the output can be objectively judged. LLMs are… none of the above ?

I thought you were complaining about lack of backwards compatibility… my point to that was that the evolution and backwards compatibility are fundamentally at odds.

With VPP we solved it by allowing either “production” API which are immutable and can be only deprecated, and “experimental” ones which can change at any point without warning. If you as user want the API to be locked - talk to its owners and see if you can convince them to bear the overhead.

It’s the eternal problem in any project of whether to upset those who want “stability” vs those who want “new features”. Of course there’s always an option of building your own compatibility layer. This API/behavior evolution game is your rental pay for not implementing function yourself.

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Hmm looks like I have to eat my shoe. I missed a critical detail that this access is not after the user types, but before. If they access the website *before* the user asks the question, then indeed it is bad. I misconstrued it to be similar to how LLMs would grab the page using “tools”. Mea culpa!

Please tell me, I am curious !

Also, FWIW: translate.google.com does the very thing that caused the outrage in the article; though they add a modest “(gfe)” to it, but otherwise they spoof the whole user agent, I just tested. Adding “(gfe)” is subtle enough that the People Who Caused Anubis might not have a clue of. :-)

Let me tweak the architecture to make my point clearer: I am navigating using a browser to a page which gets sent to an LLM via a browser plugin and the result of its processing gets presented to me. Should my browser send a different user agent string ?

For the record: my very first reaction after reading the article was “waaah this is terrible”, given how badly the AI bros have screwed up the crawling, but then I (semi)convinced myself *this time* it might be actually for good purpose. /s

I interpret the example in the article as basically assistive tech - a cloud-based screen reader for the brain. One user device hit was replaced by one hit from the cloud; assuming they used the user user-agent in this, not illogical - considering pages can break even with tiny user-agent changes.

Riding to Leiden one final time. Everyone should have access to cycling infrastructure this good.

That said, a case in point where LLMs are useful: github.com/ayourtch/rsrs - I wanted a tool - no matter how ugly - serving a very specific purpose. What you see runs on windows, Mac, Linux, and took less than 1 hour of my life to have built.