Lobachevsky's recent activity
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
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Comment on Dating apps are training us to want the wrong people in ~life
Lobachevsky LinkIt would be nice if the article actually substantiated any of the claims made. As it is, it looks more like an advertisement for 1 psychologist's book. Particularly the title seems to be just a...It would be nice if the article actually substantiated any of the claims made. As it is, it looks more like an advertisement for 1 psychologist's book. Particularly the title seems to be just a clickbait for what is discussed very little and is almost entirely lacking in any supporting evidence. Hating on dating apps is a very popular thing online, but they're almost entirely bound to the way the users use them. In the end, just like you need to dress a certain way to a fancy party, you need to present yourself a certain way on dating apps. It's just another space for people to meet with its own norms and traditions. This has little to do with evolution in my opinion, like the article states throughout.
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Comment on Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentWell there's a full video posted by Navalny himself with English subtitles (turn on youtube subs) if you'd rather see that than the summaries that others have posted. It is quite worth a watch.Well there's a full video posted by Navalny himself with English subtitles (turn on youtube subs) if you'd rather see that than the summaries that others have posted. It is quite worth a watch.
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Comment on Something big is happening in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI mean we have people in their 20s and 30s that are perfectly good engineers. I think we are good for the next 30 years or so. I don't see any reason why juniors would be entitled to be hired by...I mean we have people in their 20s and 30s that are perfectly good engineers. I think we are good for the next 30 years or so. I don't see any reason why juniors would be entitled to be hired by us when they're a net negative for like 6 months. The whole point of hiring (in our case) is to reduce the load on individual engineers, not increase it. We have plenty of folks switching to development through internal mobility for instance, that's one possible path.
This discussion is orthogonal to the AI one by the way. The people who don't want to hire juniors aren't some top execs with blind AI worship, they're our team leads and engineering managers.
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Comment on Something big is happening in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentBy hiring people who got experienced in other companies, the same way many of our past colleagues work for our clients. We are not running a business of educating juniors (so they can leave the...By hiring people who got experienced in other companies, the same way many of our past colleagues work for our clients. We are not running a business of educating juniors (so they can leave the company afterwards), similarly how not every hospital is a teaching hospital. I've already got my hands full with tasks, I simply do not have the time to educate someone completely inexperienced. And juniors aren't entitled to start their journey at such a large company either.
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Comment on Something big is happening in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentNo, because training takes time away from already strained seniors. We don't hire juniors for the same reason. The doc team being laid off in itself is not an issue, it was a team of non-native...wouldn't it make more sense to retain the doc team and retrain them (with AI) into production staff
No, because training takes time away from already strained seniors. We don't hire juniors for the same reason. The doc team being laid off in itself is not an issue, it was a team of non-native speakers and we had a reputation for pretty crappy documentation.
The doc team sits so close to your code base, and obviously understand your company's tech and industry so intimately
Not sure why you think so. They needed engineering to explain everything to them and then rewrote it according to some formatting standards they had. It's really unsurprising that they got replaced with AI. There are a ton of people in large companies that are frankly pretty useless, AI or not AI.
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Comment on Something big is happening in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI work at a large company where we are given access to latest AI tools and encouraged (but not at all forced) to use them. I've got copilot in my VS Code, autocompletion, agent mode, all the bells...I work at a large company where we are given access to latest AI tools and encouraged (but not at all forced) to use them. I've got copilot in my VS Code, autocompletion, agent mode, all the bells and whistles. The article appears way closer to reality than your or any other dismissive posts on tildes.
At first it was a funny joke, the local AI pusher was laughed at behind their back and the mistakes and "hallucinations" were a hilarious part of the weekly meetings.
At some point some engineers (including real smart senior people) started mentioning how they used AI to solve X. Someone told us about debugging some production blocker for days, then out of curiosity they asked AI and it suggested the root cause on the first try. The doc team got laid off. QA is being pushed towards as much automation as possible. Basically everybody uses it now I think.
With 5.2 I've been finally using it myself. Yes, the "large existing codebase" is a major point of struggle. It offers a solution, I have to rewrite it because I know the specifics of our crappy legacy code way better, but I am the only one who does and it does offer a working solution. It also offers ideas I wouldn't have come up with on my own.
So yeah I think I trust the author of the article more than the naysayers here. For the record, I don't have any AI to sell. Sadly I am not good at running a business.
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Comment on Cory Doctorow | AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage. in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI don't think this is attributable to any particular actor or group of actors. Let's just say that laymen don't accurately describe the technology.I don't think this is attributable to any particular actor or group of actors. Let's just say that laymen don't accurately describe the technology.
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Comment on Cory Doctorow | AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage. in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentA big part of it is setting completely unrealistic standards. From a single, often poorly formulated and vague prompt, this tech must understand you completely accurately, and fetch a complete and...People who are against AI for the human reasons described in the article do sometime try to downplay how good these models are as part of it, but they really are incredibly impressive and I wouldn't have believed such a huge step forward in language models would happen so quickly if you'd asked me at the beginning of 2022.
A big part of it is setting completely unrealistic standards. From a single, often poorly formulated and vague prompt, this tech must understand you completely accurately, and fetch a complete and fact checked answer with no errors, on any arbitrary topic and all in under 30 seconds!
An army of human experts wouldn't be held to such a standard, let alone any single individual human! It is absolutely incredible what these tools are capable of now.
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Comment on Pluribus full season discussion in ~tv
Lobachevsky LinkI just don't think it needed another season, let alone a cliffhanger. It's a kind of neat idea, but questions like "would you rather keep your individuality or be in a blissful hivemind" are...I just don't think it needed another season, let alone a cliffhanger. It's a kind of neat idea, but questions like "would you rather keep your individuality or be in a blissful hivemind" are actually pretty rudimentary. I don't think the idea is strong enough to carry a whole ass show and certainly not for several seasons. I think it's more of miniseries material. Or maybe a movie. Certainly there wasn't enough substance there to justify the length in my opinion.
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Comment on Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentYep, basically. Obscure small time forums kinda as well or any place where it's not worth having a "persona".The only places I could think of are various *chans
Yep, basically. Obscure small time forums kinda as well or any place where it's not worth having a "persona".
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Comment on Deleting topics in ~tildes
Lobachevsky Link ParentWell that sure is a perspective, but I for instance got an apparently 2 hour cooldown on all my posts with no explanation (I'm sure it's due to an argument I've had months if not over a year ago...Well that sure is a perspective, but I for instance got an apparently 2 hour cooldown on all my posts with no explanation (I'm sure it's due to an argument I've had months if not over a year ago that was deemed too heated). It is extremely obnoxious trying to participate in conversations like that and not sure what it accomplishes exactly, I never spammed my posts or anything like that. So let's just say I am not a fan of opaque moderation practices.
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Comment on Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI don't think reddit has been a usable website for a long long time outside of some VERY niche hobby subs maybe. Even the likes of r/rpg destroy a lot of discussion because of the upvote mechanism...I don't think reddit has been a usable website for a long long time outside of some VERY niche hobby subs maybe. Even the likes of r/rpg destroy a lot of discussion because of the upvote mechanism and of course the most popular ones are just karma farming simulators. I genuinely prefer places with no personalities, no virtual currency and little moderation. Sadly there's very few such places left.
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
Lobachevsky Link ParentWell let's just hope that nobody judges digital artists by the crap that's posted on rule34 and deviantart then :)Well let's just hope that nobody judges digital artists by the crap that's posted on rule34 and deviantart then :)
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
Lobachevsky Link ParentThat's why I said I think your disagreement is philosophical rather than practical. Otherwise you'd be naming models, which obviously all write differently, prompts and settings which obviously...And all AI work is junk for me.
That's why I said I think your disagreement is philosophical rather than practical. Otherwise you'd be naming models, which obviously all write differently, prompts and settings which obviously affect this. Listen, I respect your hardline anti-AI stance, I get responses from you practically every single time I say something that isn't "AI is always terrible" on tildes. Just don't present it as an actual comparison of the results.
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
Lobachevsky Link ParentI don't even know what that means. All I want when it comes to smut is to be satisfied. If it "tricks" you into being satisfied, then it is good. That's wading through junk in search for treasure...AI smut tries to trick you that it's good
I don't even know what that means. All I want when it comes to smut is to be satisfied. If it "tricks" you into being satisfied, then it is good.
But if you're not using whatever rating/tagging system or author tracking exists you're setting yourself up to read a lot of junk regardless.
That's wading through junk in search for treasure and it's not enough. The vast majority of what you encounter written by humans is going to be junk, which was my point. To put it another way, it is vastly preferable to prompt an AI and get what you want instantly than wading through endless pages hoping to find that diamond in the rough.
AI smut never gets there.
Yeah it does. I don't need my smut to be philosophically soulful art gallery material or whatever. The difference in how fast you can get what you want to see (which to me is all that matters for smut) is just night and day.
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
Lobachevsky Link ParentI know that I'm telling on myself here, but no, any AI smut, even made by the dumbest models from 2-3 years ago that could run on potato PCs are a better experience than average online smut (I...I know that I'm telling on myself here, but no, any AI smut, even made by the dumbest models from 2-3 years ago that could run on potato PCs are a better experience than average online smut (I don't have much experience with book smut). And it completely, unequivocally, undoubtedly beats the fascinating experience of finding a half-decent writer on any ERP website. Anyone who has had experience there will tell you just how godawful, low effort and mind mindbogglingly terrible absolute most users there are at writing smut. It is truly an arduous process of wading through a shit lake for bits of pieces of buried treasure. I'm just gonna assume your disagreement here is philosophical rather than practical.
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
Lobachevsky Link ParentI think anyone who's ever read any online erotica will tell you for certain that even given time, resources and horniness, you are not necessarily a better writer hahahahahaI think anyone who's ever read any online erotica will tell you for certain that even given time, resources and horniness, you are not necessarily a better writer hahahahaha
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Comment on YouTube is awful. Please use YouTube, though. in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI didn't get the impression that it's "evil" from what was listed in the article. Is this genuinely only about trump unbanning, Israel Gaza thing and AI? Because none of these things I would...I didn't get the impression that it's "evil" from what was listed in the article. Is this genuinely only about trump unbanning, Israel Gaza thing and AI? Because none of these things I would classify as evil and even at worst it seems to be fairly benign compared to all the good the platform did for creativity. Once again I am puzzled by Tilde's reaction.
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Comment on The truth about AI (specifically LLM powered AI) in ~tech
Lobachevsky LinkI think there's a really funny way LLMs are treated with the highest level of scrutiny instead of comparing them to what was there before. I can now near instantly get ideas for office party...I think there's a really funny way LLMs are treated with the highest level of scrutiny instead of comparing them to what was there before. I can now near instantly get ideas for office party activities, a large draft of an announcement or a statement, format things in whatever way I want instantly, ask for help with text or code with clarifications and corrections, most importantly all of this is completely customizable by whatever it is I want, it's generalized to the extreme. Does it matter then that it is not a literally perfect answer, ready to be copypasted? No, because a) I can just ask to change things and b) before there was no such thing whatsoever, other than googling and hopefully landing something that fits your use case (frequently also flawed) or I would have to convince or hire other people to help out, again with all of the downsides of working with another person.
Thankfully, beyond online discussions of hatred and obsession in real world practical applications are mostly what matters.
Okay, like, I have met absolutely nobody that isn't on Reddit (tildes) that actually genuinely considers AI to be a problem worth legislating against. Absolutely everyone, no matter their background, either doesn't know much about it or doesn't care. Most people just happily use these tools when they can and know how to.
I sure hope that the Government doesn't legislate based on interests of giant media corporations and redditors...