Yes they did. They got exactly what they bargained for. They’re just too fucking stupid to know it.

There are tricks to getting better output from it, especially if you’re using Copilot in VS Code and your employer is paying for access to models, but it’s still asking for trouble if you’re not extremely careful, extremely detailed, and extremely precise with your prompts.

And even then it absolutely will fuck up. If it actually succeeds at building something that technically works, you’ll spend considerable time afterwards going through its output and removing unnecessary crap it added, fixing duplications, securing insecure garbage, removing mocks (God… So many fucking mocks), and so on.

I think about what my employer is spending on it a lot. It can’t possibly be worth it.

Yeah, code bloat with LLMs is fucking monstrous. If you use them, get used to immediately scouring your code for duplications.

Yeah, I’m thinking this case gets tossed, with prejudice, within the next 48 hours.

Way ahead of you on the savings part, but how are you buying land in Canada without being a Canadian citizen?

I don’t, I fucking live here and I’d like my money to be worth something next week!

After working on a team that uses LLMs in agentic mode for almost a year, I’d say this is probably accurate.

Most of the work at this point for a big chunk of the team is trying to figure out prompts that will make it do what they want, without producing any user-facing results at all. The rest of us will use it to generate small bits of code, such as one-off scripts to accomplish a specific task - the only area where it’s actually useful.

The shine wears off quickly after the fourth or fifth time it “finishes” a feature by mocking data because so many publicly facing repos it trained on have mock data in them so it thinks that’s useful.

In our case, there are enough upper management folks who are opposed to it that I doubt it will last or ever be enforced. For people like me, it really doesn’t make any sense to enforce it in the first place, because all of my teammates are in other states and countries.

Making me go to the office just means you can’t schedule early meetings with me, because I’ll be commuting during that time.

My office just did the same thing. And the backlash is enormous. No one wants it. No one likes it.

The funny thing is that I’m actually an Arch user. I’m just not a dick about it.

Yeah, this sucks. Use the distro you like, people.

Wow! After over a decade of incompetent involvement in politics, did Trump just finally actually learn that dictators don’t like democracies?!?

Nah. He’s actually just pissy because the dictators didn’t invite him into their club.

That’s how it’s done, yep.

Exactly! Jeffries was the exact example I had in mind of a Democrat who simply will not stand up for anyone.

Not the person you asked, but I do that sometimes. For instance, when I want to watch a specific video but I don’t want having watched it to affect other video recommendations.

Even in acknowledging the need for new leadership, he gets it wrong. Biden himself wasn’t the problem, he did a perfectly fine job as president. The problem was you guys in Congress, and the DNC insisting that the Democrats move to the right.

Age may correlate with compromised ethics and standards, but it’s not the cause. If the Democrats in Congress weren’t such fucking pushovers and did good jobs, I wouldn’t give a shit if they held office until they keeled over dead.

Fight - for us - and you can have the job as long as you want it. Refuse to fight? Then get the hell out of the way.

There’s also the fact that what we are currently calling AI isn’t, that there are better options that aren’t environmental catastrophes (I’m hopeful about small language models), and that no one seems to want all the “AI” being jammed into every goddamn thing.

No, I don’t want Gemini in my email or messaging, I want to read messages from people myself. No, I don’t want Copilot summaries of my meetings in Teams, half the folks I work with have accents it can’t parse. Get the hell out of my way when I’m trying to interact with actual human beings.

And I say that as someone whose job literally involves working with LLMs every day. Ugh.

She and everyone he illegally “fires” should continue doing their jobs and ignore him until he tries to have them arrested or otherwise removed. Don’t make this shit easy for him. Make him have to struggle for every step towards fascism.

It’s important to understand that she wasn’t fired. The Fed is independent by law, and Trump is not her boss. He has no authority to fire her.

Which is why I have never and will never download the app, go to the website, or otherwise watch any TikTok content.

I still have enough of an attention span to read actual books and watch full-length movies, and I want to keep it that way.