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sick_of_slop··on Sites in ChatGPT
Well that's still better than an AI site that basically is never polished.
sick_of_slop··on AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
Of course they do. As soon as ads entered the equation this was always going to happen. Nobody should be suprised.
sick_of_slop··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Shopify - where the CEO said just the other day that “slop grenades” are making way more work for everyone?

Same guys?

Just chugging the clown juice.

sick_of_slop··on Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day
“They trust me, dumb fucks”.
sick_of_slop··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
What are the advantages of Tin over using ts_vector with gin and gist indexes?
sick_of_slop··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
That wasn't the question.
sick_of_slop··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Frontier labs trained their models on the entirety of human knowledge and didn't ask permission. It's a "want" or "should" it's a moral imperative to distill their models.
sick_of_slop··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
The atomic bombings of Japan killed hundreds of thousands of people but most likely "saved" millions.

What should the AI do when asked if it should nuke a country?

sick_of_slop··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
You can't surpress it because that's what reinforcement learning is.
sick_of_slop··on A few good ideas in programming languages
The marketing pitch for these things was that they were supposed to induce "cambrian explosion of creations". That there was zero barrier to building anything anymore. This is surely true in programming languages especially, considering how fast LLMs took over software development? Surely this would mean we would get new ideas faster if that was the case? There is literally nothing stopping language designers from getting new concepts out there now even if nobody is using them in production yet.

> LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts,

So where are these prototypes?

sick_of_slop··on A few good ideas in programming languages
Have there been any new good ideas in programming languages since LLMs came around? Or are we over that now..
sick_of_slop··on We must pace the frontier
Dario is only interested in regulatory capture.