Lobachevsky's recent activity
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Lobachevsky LinkSeems like this is what tags and labels are for, which you can filter out if some content is upsetting for you to see. Checking the trailer post, I don't think this necessarily calls for admin...Seems like this is what tags and labels are for, which you can filter out if some content is upsetting for you to see.
Checking the trailer post, I don't think this necessarily calls for admin intervention even, unless people start flinging insults at each other. The giant comment chain was hidden away from me when I opened the post, so looks like labels are working as intended. This, I think, is what makes Tildes superior to, for instance, reddit, where on topic posts would be downvoted to hell.
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Comment on Why are we still doing this? in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentSo you're using 1 country as an example to say that any time a company provides a cheap and good service, it's a honeypot to capture the market? As I said, everywhere I've been to (not United...predominantly in the United States (12 acquisitions), followed by the United Kingdom (2 acquisitions), and China (1 acquisition).
So you're using 1 country as an example to say that any time a company provides a cheap and good service, it's a honeypot to capture the market? As I said, everywhere I've been to (not United States), there are both alternative apps and traditional taxi options. I have no comment on what went on in the US or what's the state of taxi services in the US. My guess is that it's something very specific to that country considering it seemingly didn't happen anywhere else.
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Comment on Why are we still doing this? in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentWhat services did Uber drive out? The crappy traditional taxis? Last time I checked, everywhere I visit both those and alternative apps exist. And wasn't the point being "we shouldn't use those...What services did Uber drive out? The crappy traditional taxis? Last time I checked, everywhere I visit both those and alternative apps exist. And wasn't the point being "we shouldn't use those services even while they're cheap and good because it's a honeypot"? Sorry, but Uber is vastly superior to traditional taxis for most rides and when it isn't, traditional taxis still exist. So I don't get the point being made at all here. From my point of view, everyone benefits. The users get a new and better service that didn't exist before, the investors eventually get their profits and everyone benefits from progress (rental DVDs replaced with streaming, taxis replaced with apps).
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Comment on Why are we still doing this? in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentSo... a company providing a useful service at a reasonable/low price is a "honeypot"? What does a company have to do to avoid being a "honeypot"? Since you bring up Netflix, apparently it's to...So... a company providing a useful service at a reasonable/low price is a "honeypot"? What does a company have to do to avoid being a "honeypot"? Since you bring up Netflix, apparently it's to maintain the same pricing for decades, since Netflix in its streaming form launched, oh god, almost 20 years ago. Or do they have to have shittier offering from the get go, is that more "honest"?
There's nothing wrong with using a service while it's cheap and good and paid for by investors, when the alternative is just not having a service at all. And for enterprise applications there are of course contracts which lock in the services and the prices for years to come.
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
Lobachevsky Link ParentMaybe you mean the movie, but the show just abruptly ends on a completely regular mid season episode.now that I look back, I'm more of the mind that it ended in a good place
Maybe you mean the movie, but the show just abruptly ends on a completely regular mid season episode.
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Comment on Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI don't know why you're suddenly narrowing down "flawed code" to these specific things, but yes, we ship software that is full of security issues. We were storing plaintext passwords in memory for...I don't know why you're suddenly narrowing down "flawed code" to these specific things, but yes, we ship software that is full of security issues. We were storing plaintext passwords in memory for instance, that was only fixed like two years ago I think. There's many more known bugs we will likely never fix and even more of the ones we don't know about yet. We're talking enterprise software, with many millions of dollars in contracts.
You didn't answer what are you shipping to be so condescending, both in your original comment and now. Maybe you are lucky enough to work in one of the places to take their time and perfect their implementations, but we have clients, deadlines and product to ship. On the platform full of legacy code. And frankly, as I said, you are criticizing a novelty product. Who cares if you could hack posts on a social network for freaking AI agents? It's not that serious.
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Comment on Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentFlawed how? It's just a novelty project in a really new field. I don't know what do you ship exactly, but as a senior dev in enterprise, corners are cut all the time, I have plenty of past...Personally, I could not imagine shipping such a flawed product-
Flawed how? It's just a novelty project in a really new field. I don't know what do you ship exactly, but as a senior dev in enterprise, corners are cut all the time, I have plenty of past colleagues of mine to thank for mountains of unmaintainable nightmare code that nobody better touch now and we have very big and well known clients which rely on all this. And let me tell you, none of them give a rat's ass about it, or rather they do, but it's just a norm in the industry. That's the cost of actually shipping a product and all that legacy "flawed code" is making a ton of money, and the company has been acquired for a ton of money as well.
So, to me, this is completely in line with how software development works as a business, it just happens to be AI related.
Why are you so defensive about this?
Because all too often on tildes I see responses that seem more like dismissive grandstanding by somebody who is just disgruntled rather than any sort of analysis based in the real world.
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Comment on Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentWell, yeah... Making new stuff that no one else has is how you do it. Why are you so negative about this?Well, yeah... Making new stuff that no one else has is how you do it. Why are you so negative about this?
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentOkay, 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...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...
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Comment on <deleted topic> 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".
I really would rather keep anything US related out of my line of sight, and yet people on this forum keep responding with entirely (even self admittedly) US centric views generalized like they're universal truths. Would it really be reasonable for me to demand everybody stop discussing anything US related on tildes? Somehow nobody ever thought so, they just told me to deal with it every single time. This can be quite frustrating.
Would it also be reasonable for me to comment on every war/atrocity the US has committed, on every single post related to the US or tagged as US related? And then say that it's just so people are aware? And label every single post criticizing the US as exemplary, even if it's not directly related to what's being posted? That's not spreading awareness, that's just being disruptive. People cannot help being from the US just like people cannot help having read/watched Harry Potter in the past and enjoying it.
Anyways, I just filter out US tagged posts and move on, which is what I recommend everyone does with whatever bothers them.