one thing i did not see coming, but should have (i really am an idiot): i am completely unenthused whenever anyone announces a piece of software. i'll see something on the rust subreddit that i would have originally thought "that's cool" and now my reaction is "great, gotta see if an llm was used"
everything feels gloomy.
Little Slop of Horrors is a good one
cream of the slop
sloptart (accidentally profane maybe)
that's all i got
edit: actually the first one might be profane too
I'm thinking "take something with a word in it that rhymes with slop" like "Slopic Thunder" or "A Slop in the Bucket"
but also i am an idiot and have bad taste
cleaning the egg off my face (but egg prices are pretty high rn so i may just keep it)
thanks @swlabr@awful.systems for the link and @blakestacey@awful.systems for the skeptical post, my dumbass dropped the ball there
old gell-mann amnesia problem
I didn't know this had a name. Thank you!
I think, if you can wait long enough, there is a chance employers will be champing at the bit to hire people who actually know what the fuck they are talking about and whose ability to think hasn't been short-circuited by a tool that pretends to think for them.
That's what I am counting on. Could just be (definitely is) copium.
Very out of my depth here but thank you for this post and the links. This was delightful to read. 💖
in the fall of 2024, i was getting teams messages from my students that were clearly llm-generated
The purpose of this block of code is to efficiently BLAH FUCKING BLAH WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT
i have to assume it's only gotten worse
no need to apologize, i understand what you mean. my experience with mathematicians has been that this is really common. even the theoretical computer scientists (the "lemma, theorem, proof" kind) i have met do this kind of bullshit when they finally decide to write a line of code. hell, their pseudocode is often baffling
if you are literally unable to run the code through a machine, maybe focus on how it comes across to a human reader? nah, it's more important that i believe it is technically correct and that no one else is able to verify it.
I don’t like how taking an approach of mediocre software engineering to mathematics is becoming more popular
would you be willing to elaborate on this? i am just curious because i took the opposite approach (started as a mathematician now i write bad python scripts)
this is why i only self-host low risk crap and it's all behind my tailnet
half the time i put my shirt on backwards, i am not going to put my password db on the public internet myself