jaredcwhite

From the article, an OpenAI researcher apparently:

> “Every time I use Codex to solve some issue late at night or GPT helps me figure out a difficult strategic problem, I feel: what a relief. There are so few minds on Earth that are both intelligent and persistent enough to generate new insights and keep the torch of scientific civilization alive. Now you have potentially infinite minds to throw at infinite potential problems. Your computer friend that never takes the day off, never gets bored, never checks out and stops trying.”

Um, this person needs help? Serious mental issues, hello?! It's really concerning me how many people are having breaks with reality, and I don't only mean the poor people who are sadly taking their own lives.

Wow this is bubble talk. Who are you talking to?! I regularly engage with people who are totally ambivalent towards genAI at best and horrifed by genAI at worst. The only people "immediately seeing the value" seem to be marketing grifters on LinkedIn.

"The regular people" …what??

OK, it's a semi-random word predictor.

I don't know any engineers, any reports, or any public community voices who claim GenAI is bad because "AI doesn't work because I tried ChatGPT in 2022 and it was dumb." So it's a critique of a fictional movement which doesn't exist vs. an attempt at critiquing an actual movement.

That opening caricature was so off-putting and dismissive (and extremely wrong, that's not at all what the discourse is about generally speaking), I failed to conclude the reading session.

One does not need to embrace a tool to recognize its horrendous effects and side-effects. I can critique assault rifles without ever having handled one. I can critique street narcotics without taking drugs, and I can critique nuclear weapons without suffering from a blast personally. The idea that if you don't use a tool you can't form conclusions about why it's bad is devoid of any factual or historical grounding. It's an empty rhetorical device which can be used endlessly.

Literally 100% of the inventions which come out now or in the future can be handled in the exact same way. Somebody invents a robot arm that spoon feeds you so you never need to feed yourself with your own hand ever again? Oh this is revolutionary, everybody's going to install this in their home! What, you haven't? And you think it's a bad idea? Gosh, you're so backwards and foolish. The world is moving on, don't be left behind with your manual hand feeding techniques.

This article is like 1.5 years out of date. The discourse around genAI as a tech movement and its nearly uniformly terrible outcomes has moved on. OP hasn't. Seems the gap is widening between writers who are talking about these tools soberly and seriously, and writers who aren't.

Yeah, but also the violence already started via hacked brains. OpenAI is having to fend off multiple lawsuits because its chatbot users started taking their own lives.

Mozilla tagline: Nobody knows how to insert feet into mouths like we do!

The level of cynicism here is astronomical. After discovering the strategy of "fire juniors and let a few seniors manage autonomous agents" was an abject failure, now the line is "actually juniors are great because we've brainwashed them into thinking AI is cool and we don't have to pay them so much". Which makes me want to vomit.

The only relevant point here is keeping a talent pipeline going, because well duh. That it even needs to be said like it's some sort of clever revelation is just another indication of the level of stupid our industry is grappling with.

The. Bubble. Cannot. Burst. Soon. Enough!!

Checked out as soon as I saw the word "moat".

Classic tell this is tech bro-ese.

Every time I see a CyberTruck out in the wild, I feel like reality is broken.

The level of disaster of that rollout, combined with D.O.G.E. and "Mechahitler" Grok, has forever tarnished the Tesla brand. I suspect there is a sizable group of people who will never buy a product by that brand ever again (or at least as long as Musk is at the helm).

Oh, if we're going by that we might get "AGI" in a year or two lol.

Believing we even know what AGI "is", let alone that we understand a direct path to achieving it, is truly an article of faith. There is no scientific basis for a development of human-level intelligence within our lifetimes, let alone the buzzword du jour of "superintelligence".

Correction: (a) we can observe the effects of human-level intelligence but we don't actually know what human intelligence is because intelligence is best described as a side-effect of consciousness (aka the experience of qualia) and science has yet to provide a convincing explanation of what that is exactly.

Sure, but that's not a native GUI app.

I can't think of a single reason why you would need an LLM to search through PowerPoint files. We have traditional search technology which would be excellent for that!

I talk to tons of people in real life who are deeply troubled by the AI-pocalypse. I was at a dinner party just the other day where out of the blue (wasn't me, I swear!), the conversation turned to the horrors of genAI and its negative effect on our society.

Yep. User expectations are leading people away from the slop-filled Windows 11 trainwreck and into the arms of Linux and macOS. Last thing we need is macOS to copy Redmond. (Used to be the other way around!)

AI slop. Flagged.

Poor analysis. Apple is doing quite well as a Big Tech company that simply doesn't need to "pivot to AI" like everyone else. Their missteps in "Apple Intelligence" have in fact demonstrated that they don't actually need to have much of a "strategy" here at all. In fact, if they simply link out to other people's chatbots and make it totally opt-in, that would be ideal.

The much bigger problem is that they've lost the wow factor in their software design, and in some regards the hardware as well even though the internals and build quality has never been better. Apple needs a design shakeup far more than it needs anything to do with AI, a poison pill which will bring the entire industry down in 2026.

You are not a serious person.

Hating AI in Portland too! :wave:

Stop trying to make ~~fetch~~ "AI Denialism" happen. It's not going to happen!

A side comment: I love that this is on Codeberg. I'm seeing more and more projects migrating there or originating there to begin with, and it's awesome. (And I've been doing that as well.)

More please! =)

My long-term bet on Node being "boring" and "stable" continues to pay major dividends. So glad I never invested any time and effort on this ecosystem…

Sounds neat, but I'm not installing a screen recorder browser extension that's not open source…

I'm flummoxed by the comments here, and why is this flagged? The article couldn't be clearer:

Startup had a product. Revenue was going down, headcount was already brought to a bare minimum. Startup started to prepare to exit and return remaining funds to investors. Game over.

Instead, investors talked startup leadership into firing nearly everyone still around working on the product and pivot to using a vibe-coded SaaS for the basis of its product. All signs point to this being a poor-quality, faulty, quite possibly illegal product as a result, but do leadership & investors care? Seems not.

OP is going to aid in the migration (my question: WTF?) and then leave.

My commentary: our industry is so fscked, and a hearty two-finger salute to every software engineer who told me in 2023 that AI wasn't going to replace humans, the humans who use AI are going to replace humans. Lol, lol, and again I say, lol.

And if you believe any of those numbers mean anything, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

Absolutely. I'm feeling it and I don't even use most of the services that are directly causing this cognitive load.

Epic on a scale rarely seen in this industry…a sort of burn book in blog form that is a must read. It's long, but well worth it.

whoa