Business people already talk to LLMs, and people who know how to code hate it.

I haven't written single line of code since Dec but I've been putting a lot of focus into systems design and making sure I understand how all the pieces of our system work together even if I don't know how the individual parts work.

The amount of times I hear my (fairly technical, mind you!) boss say "why can't we do X, Claude says it's simple" is pretty baffling, and my coworkers and him will have hours long debates about it.

This goes along in the hall of fame with the "how hard can it be", Turns out, if you want to do it right, more often than not, very hard.

Lol. I think a disconnect that engineers often have with product people is that product people want it to be done now (right or not) and engineers want it to be done right, which obviously takes more time. But I think a good engineer knows how to get it 80% of the way there quickly, and knows which 20% is ok to sacrifice or take on as tech debt.

Alas I'm not one of those engineers, but I'm fortunate enough to work with some.

There is a lot of that, but there is also the fact that you can get lulled into a false sense of "it is working" in general the motto is 90% of the work in 10% of the time and 90% of the time to get the 10% more done, and the devil is always in those 10% that often hinge on decisions made during the 90% phase.

It also depends on the requirements, and what the actual thing you want done. For software, sure you can probably patch it and there are some inconveniences you can live with depending on the clients requirements, for hardware... a little bit tougher... But it still depends on what is being done and what are the constraints, as long as people are reasonable, usually, it works out... Except that people rarely seem to be reasonable...

Well sure, making things illegal is better than letting things be illegal, but the current government gets away with a lot of illegal shit so the skepticism is warranted.

I think what people want is just tearing all of the cameras down. Law enforcement had their chance to prove flock cameras were good. They proved to be poor stewards for the technology. Now get them the fuck off our streets.

I loved this site. It had a reputation at my school for being a place for perverts to play pervert games, and certainly that's why I initially looked at it being a curious 10-year-old, but then I realized there's so much more to the site than just pervert games and it became my home for playing games and learning flash.

I think Albino blacksheep was also somewhere there as well.

yeah with the amount of jank there is on the web , it's pretty clear that a lot of developers don't know basic algorithms, even at big tech corps

I say half facetiously - have you tried writing a skill or rule to remember your setting as a workaround?

I actually don't like that it sometimes remembers the last model/effort i used. I should be able to set a default model/effort that is separate from the one off fable runs I use.

I thought the thinking effort was specified out of band from that, though maybe it's not. Not sure if the model was trained to listen in other areas. The biggest issue is, it's difficult to tell if it works because you can no longer see the thinking! Though I guess if you can't tell a difference in the output, was there any point to max in the first place?

"s" for just this session. "ENTER" for use it and set it as the default.

Google assistant is not that much better so I agree that siri is not make or break.

Its kinda silly that investors think this incredible technology (AI) is just chat... when its real utility is really doing invisible things (for better or for worse)

Android user here. Google Assistant with Gemini is almost close to useless. Before Google assistant had gemini i used to be able to do simple things like "remind me to do x in y minutes" or "turn lights off" or "remind me that the apt gate code is 1234"

Now most of that either is "i cant do that" or "sure, playing Ellie Gouldings Lights at 200%" (which admittedly was funny in hindsight, had it not woken my infant daughter up and caused a sleepless night)

Siri will randomly refuse simple commands as "skip track" or "lower volume", or the classic "here are the results for 'set oven timer 35 minutes'.."

But it's not about that. They'll all improve, but since for the majority of people their entire life is in the Googlesphere, they will want to run Gemini. And the DMA will even let them on iPhones and iPads.

English media also does this for crimes in their own countries, depending on the narrative they want to spin. Im sure other countries do too, but i dont watch news in foreign languages.

Idk after Toy Story 3 where the cute cuddly bear was the bad guy, and after 5 nights at freddys, I no longer trust cuddly mascots.

I agree with your general point though.

Yes, that was an atrocity. What does that have to do with what Israel is doing? We shouldn't be ok with atrocities just because worse atrocities that dont get as much media coverage exist.