s1mplicissimus

"If you don't migrate I will tell your mum"

I get that it's nice to be able to deprecate/remove things.

But intentionally breaking my users runtime in a way that's really hard and annoying to find? Is the author OK? This reads like a madman to me.

i assumed it was the egg plant, guess i'm getting old

It's not very current, but I remember this being one of my favorite books back in college:

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan

This is what's going to happen:

- Formally verifiable specs improve the absolute garbage that is LLM generated code to an acceptable degree.

- Realization: Providing formally verifiable specifications is actually a lot of work

- Light bulb: Oh, let's have the LLM generate formal specifications.

- Realization: Oh, actually those autogenerated specifications aren't correct

- Conclusion: We're back to square one.

There is a reason why most code is not formally verified. It's actually really hard (and in many cases arguably not worth it) to express what one would call "standard business logic" in formally verifiable terms.

It's called "aligning with company culture" or "not being difficult" among others

They probably didn't call it "AI" before, but I'm pretty confident they used pattern/similarity hash matching for a long time. The indeterminism of "AI" makes it a handy excuse for "mistakes". Seems like a smart comm strategy

Agreed with the sentiment, but calling OpenAI a "smaller company" after it's just been infused with multiple hundreds of billions, is a bit of a stretch

Yet both can be at alarmingly high rates at the same time, it's not like one cancels the other out

that's gonna be painful, as the borrow checker really trips up LLMs

Does anyone of the finance pros here know if there would have been a way to profit off predicting that ads would be introduced into chatbot responses?

And became pretty bad afterwards

I'm always glad to see others notice this too. cheers

Hard to tell, as those 2 specific services are currently monopolized by a company who refuses to offer those specific services ad-free

video game "journalism", car magazines, travel reviews, restaurant reviews

> Can you give an example of "solicited advertising"? I have never heard of such a thing, and can't imagine what it might be.

The only thing I would consider solicited is when I decide that I want to see product information. Everything else is just some chapter from the narcissists prayer: "and if I did, it wasn't that bad"

> Okay, thw question then becomes: How do we get people to deliberatly look?

You don't. Because you don't get to manipulate my attention. That simple.

> By what other means would people with a product or service to provide reach other people who are interested in obtaining that product or service?

Easy: provide informational material. I will fetch it if/when I'm interested. Don't stick it up my nose while I try to do something else

I always dreaded those social activities. Even when "not mandatory" it was always expected to show up and pretend to have more in common with the peers than "I'm here to do the work and collect a paycheck" anyway.

Thanks for the link. For anyone interested, here's the process outlined in the document, I'm gonna try to apply and see where that leads.

# Steps to interoperate with Messenger or WhatsApp

Note: Separate documentation and applications are required for Messenger and/or WhatsApp

    Review: Review the Reference Offer, Developer Documentation Overview, and Application Guidelines above.
    Apply: If you believe you qualify, complete the form that’s linked in the Application Guidelines.
    Review: If you meet eligibility requirements, we will send you our detailed Developer Documentation under NDA for review of the detailed technical requirements for interoperating.
    Sign: If you can fulfill the relevant terms and technical requirements set out in the Reference Offer and want to request interoperability, sign the Interoperability Agreement that we will provide to you.
    Build: Start building interoperability.
    Enable: Complete the milestones outlined in the detailed Developer Documentation to enable interoperability.
    Launch: Work with Messenger and/or WhatsApp on a joint plan to launch interoperability.

I wanted to try this, but it's not possible (yet?) for regular folks apparently.

Supposedly the two apps "BirdyChat" and "Hiket" are WA compatible. Both are waitlist only.

Even after searching for ~15 minutes, I could find no information about how to become such a compatible provider.

I hope this situation will improve drastically, but it also looks like Meta will do whatever they can to make it as hard and annoying as possible, as they don't want to lose market share. Disappointing.

One could argue that pointing out the pointlessness of LLM hype is infact useful, while producing that same hype is not

Agreed that stupid proxies were removed. And I'm not shedding a single tear for the idiots that made a living enforcing them

okay commentless downvotes I assume it's the grokbots

And that's for tasks it's actually suited for

I personally would not want to waste their time by writing them my personal opinion on a ruling I agree with

> Being a crazy authoritarian guy with power of life and death over each of your citizens is one. No government at all is the other extreme

no, the other extreme of "crazy authoritarian" is "liberal democracy"

The other extreme of "no government at all" is "everything is run by the government"

Hmm I get it's a thrill for the author to get exposure/internetfame, but what's in it for the bettors? Looks to me that if bets reach enough of a one-sided weight, it's super easy for OP to just "forget" to study for their test

Nice to see a fellow awesome( )wmer, hi!

Can we have a look at X's finances too and have an opinion on wether people should give them money?