TehPers

It’s not really (which says more about corporations than anything).

Yep! You would need not only an AI superintelligence capable of reflecting and adapting, but legislation which holds liable those superintelligences and grants them the rights and obligations of a human. Because there is no concept of reward of punishment to a LLM, they can never be replacements for people.

There is a fundamental limitation of all LLMs that prevents it from doing as much as you might think, regardless of how accurate they are (and they are not):

LLMs cannot take liability. When they make mistakes, they cannot take responsibility for those mistakes. The person who used the LLM will always be liable instead.

So any automation as a result of LLMs removing jobs will end up punting that liability to the next person up the chain. Management will literally have nobody to blame but themselves, and that’s their worst nightmare.

Anyway, this is of course assuming capabilities that don’t exist.

The conclusion of this experiment is objectively wrong when generalized. At work, to my disappointment, we have been trying for years to make this work, and it has been failure after failure (and I wish we’d just stop, but eventually we moved to more useful stuff like building tools adjacent to the problem, which is honestly the only reason I stuck around).

There are a couple reasons why this problem cannot succeed:

1. The outputs of LLMs are nondeterministic. Most problems require determinism. For example, REST API standards require idempotency from some kinds of requests, and a LLM without a fixed seed and a temperature of 0 will return different responses at least some of the time.
2. Most real-world problems are not simple input-output machines. When calling, let’s say for example, an API to post a message to Lemmy, that endpoint does a lot of work. It needs to store the message in the darabase, federate the message, and verify that the message is safe. It also needs to validate the user’s credential before all of this, and it needs to record telemetry for observability purposes. LLMs are not able to do all this. They might, if you’re really lucky, be able to generate code that does this, but a single LLM call can’t do it by itself.
3. Some real world problems operate on unbounded input sizes. Context sizes are constrained and as currently designed cannot handle unbounded inputs. See signal processing for an example of this, and for an example of a problem a LLM cannot solve because it cannot receive the input.
4. LLM outputs cannot be deterministically improved. You can make changes to prompts and so on but the output will not monotonically improve when doing this. Improving one result often means sacrificing another result.
5. The kinds of models you want to run are not in your control. Using Claude? K Anthropic updated the model and now your outputs all changed and you need to update your prompts again. This fucked us over many times.

The list keeps going on. My suggestion? Just don’t. You’ll spend less time implementing the thing than trying to get an LLM to do it. You’ll save operating expenses. You’ll be less of an asshole.

Graham Platner isn’t an elected official, nor are any of the three legislators named Graham Platner, nor are any of Louis Rossman’s other names Graham Platner.

Please, if you’re going to troll, make a better attempt at it. Or even better, take it somewhere else.

So when can we start taking these enzymes like vaccines? I’d sure like to undo the damage done to me over years or plastic lobbying.

He literally put out a video not that long ago praising three democratic legislators for proposing a right to repair bill. Weird impression.

By “crackers” I mean “black hat hackers”.

Ok I just misread it then, sorry!

What they’re doing should be outright illegal in most countries; it’s equivalent to changing a contract unilaterally after both parties signed it.

Update to [COMPANY NAME]'s Policies

Yes, this should be illegal, but it’s already common practice. I’m just hoping that enough of this will eventually get people to stop buying these products, and hopefully we can start seeing some real legislation against it in some countries.

Additionally, I’d strongly advise against buying any sort of “smart” device, unless you’re pretty sure the benefits of connecting your toaster to the internet outweighs all the risks.

This should be obvious at this point. “Smart” just means “internet-connected”, and we already know what happens to every device that connects to a remote server during regular operation: telemetry (and not the nice debugging kind but the “what do you use” kind), and advertisements.

Including corporations and crackers

The “crackers” part of this confuses me. Samsung is a Korean company. The chairman’s name is Lee Jae-yong (이재용). Samsung NA’s CEO is Yoonie Joung. Maybe I’m misreading this?

Still wildly different than here where people just campaign on hatred and get people to vote for them.

Defending. It says in the article what I’m referring to, since that’s all the context I have on this.

The fact that the far right candidate was standing up to LGBTQ+ rights speaks louder than anything to me. I already loved NL, and this just cements it.

Shame I’m an entire ocean away or I’d be there all the time.

To me, as an American, having a young president might even be more newsworthy.

We don’t know what presidents do behind closed doors. What I do know is what some of that demographic that I know has done behind closed doors, and let’s just say I’d be shocked if any future president was truly the first one to be gay (or at least not completely straight).

As far as NL goes, I love it there. Genuinely nobody I interacted with cared at all how you identify. They just want to get it right. I think the biggest issue I’ve seen there is regarding transgender people, but the scale isn’t even on the same planet as it is in the US, and reaching that point would be a monumental milestone here worthy of a national holiday.

It will probably end up running better for them anyway.

Seriously, I use Office at work, and I wonder everyday why anyone subjects themselves to it. Then I subject myself to it because that’s what I’m supposed to use. But I sure as hell don’t at home.

It sounded from the PSF article that the biggest reason they rejected it, aside from the ethical concerns, was that they could be asked to give the money back if they are found to be violating that term anywhere and at any time. Even if they didn’t care about the term regarding DEI, the risk of being liable for $1.5m to the US government all because an orange blob didn’t like the logo is too great of a risk.

I mean, I find TypeScript fun to write. The only thing I really dislike about it is configuring the tools (tsc, eslint, etc). It’s a great language when everything’s setup and you disallow all the ugly JSisms with your linter and tsc.

Used Claude 4 for something at work (not much of a choice here and that team said they generate all their code). It’s sycophantic af. Between “you’re absolutely right” and it confidently making stuff up, I’ve wasted 20 minutes and an unknown number of tokens on it generating a non-functional unit test and then failing to solve the type errors and eslint errors.

There are some times it was faster to use, sure, but only because I don’t have the time to learn the APIs myself due to having to deliver an entire feature in a week by myself (rest of the team doesn’t know frontend) and other shitty high level management decisions.

At the end of the day, I learned nothing by using it, the tests pass but I have no clue if they test the right edge cases, and I guess I get to merge my code and never work on this project again.

I was being ridiculed in the past and called a slop-generator

I can only imagine why. Surely it’s unrelated to this?

I’ve completely moved to codex cli as daily driver. I run between 3-8 in parallel in a 3x3 terminal grid

Nah, couldn’t be.

Didn’t the Netherlands do something along these lines? At least when I was there most recently, there were waste bins for dumping residential waste, and while the ones near us weren’t tracking who was dumping or how much, some did require a NFC or something along those lines to access and I believe charged based on weight (could be wrong about this though).

Edit: article briefly mentions this it seems

Isn’t the goto for pica corn starch or something? Regardless, there are many safer options. Even chewing on a rubber tire is probably safer as long as you wash it first.