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@serpentroots IMHO, all this "#AI" #slop should be outlawed for all the right reasons.
Even if we didn't care that #WastefulComputing for it and even #Bitcoin-like #ASIC|s for it [aka. #NPU|s] are being built, the Power Consumption is just bad!
Just like running a car engine for no good reason within city limits is banned in #Germany for #AirPollution reasons alone, so should generating shitty #AIslop for #pollution of the #Internet and being #waste of #energy, and computing resources from #compute to #storage and #traffic!
Hachyderm.ioTom (@serpentroots@hachyderm.io)As part of my job, I have to evaluate AI tools. Part of that evaluation is pushing them to their limit. Today, I realised Cursor has a setting where if you critique its work enough, it goes silent and refuses to apply changes.
It's a moody junior dev whose overconfidence and bravado quickly turn to surly silence when their work is questioned. The happy, helpful (and frequently wrong) AI is gone, replaced by a useless one with a bad attitude that won't make it past the next performance review.
Christ. I'm used to managing engineers, but I draw the line at managing AIs.
#ai #cursor #llm
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a. Suppose I want to book an aircraft or I'm going to go on holidays. I want to book a higher car, a hotel and an aircraft.
And I go to some booking site and say, want to book this aircraft? Trouble is, everybody's spying on me and listening to this and advertising services are coming in. So when I go and try and buy a higher car, they already know that I do that and they model their things according to that because as you do computations, you're leaking stuff all the time. So Carl Hewitt says, much better to keep all the data yourself. [highlighted] And so if you want to book an aircraft, you could go to the ten airliners that you're prepared to fly with and say, can you give me a little program ram that I can run on my computer whose validity")
