froztbyte @ froztbyte @awful.systems

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oh, I get it, you personally choose not to make these structurally-repeatable-by-foundation errors? you personally choose to be a Unique And Correct Snowflake?

wow shit damn, I sure want to read your eventual uni paper, see what kind of distinctly novel insight you've had to wrangle this domain!

(also I did my disclaimer at the start there, so, y'know (but also igwym))

woo! but still also check out pomsky, it's legit handy!

a'ight, sure bub, let's play

tell me what hw spec I need to deploy some kind of interactive user-facing prompt system backed by whatever favourite LLM/transformer-model you want to pick. idgaf if it's llama or qwen or some shit you've got brewing in your back shed - if it's on huggingface, fair game. here's the baselines:

• expected response latencies: human, or better
• expected topical coherence: mid-support capability or above
• expected correctness: at worst "I misunderstood $x" in the sense of "whoops, sorry, I thought you were asking about ${foo} but I answered about ${bar}"; i.e. actual, contextual, concrete contextual understanding

(so, basically, anything a competent L2 support engineer at some random ISP or whatever could do)

hit it, I'm waiting.

how dare I use someone's own words against them!

You can experiment on your own GPU

you have lost the game

you have been voted off the island

you are the weakest list

etc etc etc

also

I’ve spent 6+ years of my life in compsci academia

eh. look.

I realize you'll probably receive/perceive this post negatively, ranging as anywhere from "criticism"/"extremely harsh" through ... "condemnation"?

but, nonetheless, I have a request for you

please, for the love of ${deity}, go out and meet people. get out of your niche, explore a bit. you are so damned close to stepping in the trap, and you could do not-that.

(just think! you've spent a whole 6+ years on compsci? now imagine what your next 80+ years could be!)

ah yes, my ability to read a pdf immediately confers upon me all the resources required to engage in materially equivalent experimentation of the thing that I just read! no matter whether the publisher spent cents or billions in the execution and development of said publication, oh no! it is so completely a cost paid just once, and thereafter it's totally free!

oh, wait, hang on. no. no it's the other thing. that one where all the criticisms continue to hold! my bad, sorry for mistaking those. guess I was roleplaying a LLM for a moment there!

space alien technology!!~

My most honest goal is to educate people

oh and I suppose you can back that up with verifiable facts, yes?

and that you, yourself, can stand as a sole beacon against the otherwise regularly increasing evidence and studies that both indicate toward and also prove your claims to be full of shit? you are the saviour that can help enlighten us poor unenlightened mortals?

sounds very hard. managing your calendar must be quite a skill

this isn't the place to decide which seed generator you want for your autoplag runtime

"oh shit I got called out on my shitty haha-only-serious comment, better pretend I didn't mean it!" cool story bro

christ this post is odious

I feel quite confident in stating two things. 1) you fucking suck at your job. 2) the people reliant on you for things fucking hate dealing with you.

the fact that you wrote this much florid effluent opinion, with as paltry examples as you bring to bear.... christ

just fucking learn some scripting languages, ffs

"I want the people I teach to be worse than me" is a fucking nightmare of a want, I hope you learn to do better

I've been beating this drum for like 4~5y but: I don't think the tech itself is going anywhere. published, opensourced, etc etc - the bell can't be unrung, the horses have departed the stable

but

I do also argue that an extremely large amount of wind in the sails right now is because of the constellation of VC/hype//etc shit

can't put a hard number on this, but .... I kind see a very massive reduction; in scope, in competence, in relevance. so much of this shit (esp. the "but my opensource model is great!" flavour) is so fucking reliant on "oh yeah this other entity had a couple fuckpiles of cash with which to train", and once that (structurally) evaporates...

ah yes, the borg deep cuts, iykyk

I guess their brains don't lift

once again: take your abuser bullshit and fuck off, thanks

your post has done a significantly better job of understanding the issue than a rather-uncomfortably-large amount of programming.dev posters we get, and that's refreshing!

and, yep

"just"?

"unfortunately"?

that's a hell of a lot of leeway being extended for what is very easily demonstrably credulous PR-washing