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For me it's a bit like with some of the LLM prose - uncanny valley territory.

bloody_bockeron What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

I also am recently coming to realization that live music is best experience, followed by recorded live music (plenty of sessions on YT that sound gorgeous and have better performances than 'normal' recordings do.

bloody_bockeron The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

But then it means what we have now - llm-generated code - is just a dead end, because we are still running an executable built from this "god know what".

bloody_bockeron Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Yeah - same things I noticed with people enthusiastically using genAI for old photo coloring. Initially it looks awesome, until you realize it can even alter the human face in such a way, that it no longer looks like that person.

My father was really happy with some old photos colored, until I pointed out he does not look like him. Strangely enough he wasnt bothered...

bloody_bockeron Open Social

What's the username/password application in this context?

bloody_bockeron The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture

Evolution: optimization done by selection, result is the DNA, that does amazing (we can't match that with traditional programming) things but it's bloody hard to decipher.

Neural network: created via training, does amazing things but (this is the area my knowledge is too small) it's bloody hard to decipher why is it doing the thing it does.

"Traditional" programming: you can (as in article) explain it down to the single most basic unit.

bloody_bockeron The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture

> When people who can’t think logically design large systems, those systems become incomprehensible. And we start thinking of them as biological systems. And since biological systems are too complex to understand, it seems perfectly natural that computer programs should be too complex to understand.

For some time I've been drawing parallels between ML/AI and how biology "solves problems" - evolution. And I also am bit disappointed by the fact the future might lead us in a different direction than mathematical elegance of solving problems.

bloody_bockeron Advantages of CRT over LCD

> feels as if you're watching the making-of documentary rather than the film itself.

Isn't that because of many picture enhancers that come with modern tvs? I think major offender is the interpolation to go from cinematic 24 frames to higher frame rate. I believe it's commonly called soap opera effect...