I’m just coughing into my hand.

And I’m glad to say, it’s not funny that things got this far. It’s sad. If I did laugh, it would only be to not cry.

I don’t have to admit to feeling relieved that maybe a couple of asshat CEOs are going to die , maybe instead of a random selection of my kids and grandkids someday under the current system.

Unless I’m ever up for jury selection, then I think I’m legally bound to admit that I don’t believe any crime was committed. I’m already at “self defense” and “not guilty”, and I dont know anything - except the nature of the system that the killed person was instrumental to.

Windows 11

Lol. I assumed they were shopping around for a burned out hard drinking senior developmer - one ready to walk away from computers entirely.

“Are we the baddies?” Ask the people who also forbid any media coverage of their actions.

“Muahahahaha!”…

Sorry, a deep resonant haunting laugh is how I cope when faced with a difficult moral conundrum.

(Paraphrased from “Better Off Ted”.)

Holy shit. This is weirder than I realized.

I’m just realizing that the person submitting the change was demanding that their lost feature be re-added, and the repo owner decided to YOLO the change into master. Lol.

Nice.

Holds hat over heart, and salutes.

In fairness, the NASA Engineer can’t get NPM to behave either. That’s why we don’t send JavaScript to space. (Edit: Lol. I guess we totally do send JavaScript into space.)

Or do we? Now I desperately want to know what the first piece of JacaScript to run in space was/will be? It did/will mark the exact moment that we stopped taking space seriously.

The real clue here is the cropped top line “refactor…”

“Here’s a huge mostly unnecessary format change that incidentally loses some functionality I don’t care about”.

Followed by “why won’t anyone accept my contributions?!”

Oh, I didn’t realize but I’ve also had a Jade laptop. I was just holding it upside down.

The bubble was when we were being sold block chain as the solution to every problem. I feel like that bubble ended in 2019 or 2020.

Things that actually benefitted from block chain are still around, of course.

Unrelated side rant: I’m pissed about pogs going away, though. Pogs were fun. I should still be able to buy pogs.

I think you’re agreeing, just in a rude and condescending way.

There’s a lot of ways left to improve, but they’re not as simple as just throwing more data and CPU at the problem, anymore.

Well yeah, thankfully.

Unlikely, but there’s some percedent.

We’ve seen this pattern play out in video games a bunch of times.

Revolutionary new way to do things. It’s cool, but not… You know…fun.

So we give up on it as a dead and and go back to the old ways for awhile.

Then somebody figures out how to (usually hard code) bumpers on the new revolutionary new way, such that it stays fun.

Now the revolutionary new way is the new gold stand and default approach.

For other industries, replace “fun” above with the correct goal for than industry. “Profitable” is one that the AI hucksters are being careful not to say…but “honest”, “correct” and “safe” also come to mind.

We are right before the bit where we all decide it was a bad idea.

Which comes before we figure out hard-coding the bumpers can get us where we wanted, after a lot of work by really smart well paid humans.

I’ve seen industries skip the “all decide it was a bad idea” phase, and go straight to the “hard work by humans to make this fulfill the available promise” phase, but we don’t actually look on track to, today.

Many current investors are convicned that their clever talking puppet is going to do the hard work of engineering the next generation of talking puppet.

I have some faith that we can reach that milestone. I’m familiar enough with the current generation of talking puppet to confidently declare that this won’t be the time it happens.

My incentive in sharing all this is that I like over half of you reading there, and so figure I can give some of you a shot at not falling for this particular “investment phase” which is essentially, in practical terms, a con.

Are you asserting that chatbots are so fundamentally different from LLMs that “oh shit we can’t just throw more CPU and data at this anymore” doesn’t apply to roughly the same degree?

Everyone ignore this comment please. I’m quite human. I have the normal 7 fingers (edit: on each of my three hands!) and everything.

Though, I don’t think that means they won’t get any better. It just means they don’t scale by feeding in more training data.

Agreed. There’s plenty of improvement to be had, but the gravy train of “more CPU or more data == better results” sounds like it’s ending.

You’ve just given a great summary of the history of breaking monopolies, really. History says you are correct. For example, AT&T is still kicking.

Oh good.

That’s impressive. I’m glad I don’t have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.

Yeah. Same here. We learned to mistrust computers very early.