Dollar store reddit, now with extra AI crap? Oooooh… Sounds fucking terrible!

Oh, fair enough.

Regular Tesla drivers who bought their vehicle several years ago, before Musk showed very clear signs of being a Nazi POS? Yeah I have some sympathy for them.

But Cybertruck users knew exactly who they were buying from. They deserve no sympathy.

While very different in some ways, some parallels between the AI-driven layoffs and the offshore outsourcing layoffs of the mid-2000s are striking.

Ultimately both scenarios were/are driven by corporate greed. And it looks like the AI one is backfiring for many of the same reasons as the offshore one.

They are replacing experienced staff who have strong critical thinking abilities and hands-on knowledge, and the replacements lack the institutional knowledge and the ability to look at the big picture, and they substitute speed for methodological discernment.

Time is cyclical.

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Groups including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SMBC are trying to find ways to distribute portions of data centre-related deals to a broader range of investors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Lenders are exploring private deals to sell stakes in the debt as well as so-called risk transfers to reduce exposure to big borrowers and free up capacity for more lending.

This gives me strong deja vu for the housing crisis of '08.

Archived link.

Time to get the hot branding iron, cowboy!

But how else is he supposed to convince himself he’s not an insecure, emotionally stunted man-child?!

Wouldn’t even have to use SFX to be convincing. Just dump a few hundred pounds of dog shit on a little trolley, put a stupid toupee on top, and wheel it around slowly on some rope. Nobody would tell the difference.

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Unfortunately, people don’t voluntarily flip over on the real world.

In Jumbovision!

‘Could’?!

From the article:

An Anthropic study released last month found AI is already theoretically capable of completing the majority of tasks associated with computer science, law, business, and finance, and other major white-collar fields

There’s a huge difference between “capable of completing the majority of tasks” and “capable of completing the majority of tasks WELL”.

Sure, you can have an AI code your web app or mobile app, due example. But it will be riddled with bugs, and bloated with inefficient code.

And from what I’ve seen, it’s not getting noticeable better at that.

But the AI companies won’t acknowledge that, of course. They will continue selling the snake oil that cures everything that ails you.

The cadets from the middle picture should be given promotions. That’s some slick flying right there.

In that scenario where AI is used to find specific code snippets or other matching text blocks, the false positives aren’t really the problem. The false negatives are the issue.

I’ve run into that myself a few times when trying to use AI. You give it a very clear prompt to find something and it sometimes just falls flat on its face. It’s easy for the AI evangelists to just blame the human who wrote the prompt, or say “you didn’t give it enough context!” But anyone who’s tried using AI and is being objective about it will tell you that’s a weak excuse that doesn’t hold water a good chunk of the time. You can give it plenty of context, and be very clear, and it still doesn’t find all the examples that clearly match the prompt.

Ultimately, you often have better luck using a well-crafted regular expression to search for text than using AI.

And that seems like the crux of the issue (which you also highlight). While there are some very good use cases for AI, it’s being waaaay over-used. And too often its faults are dismissed or glossed over.

I think this theory covers about 80% of the sudden change in behaviour. The last 20% can probably be attributed to the fact that cockerals are arseholes, so they might have also pissed off the peacock.

Holy shit, I swear autocorrect is at war with me! And I am clearly losing, lol.

Glad my mistakes gave you a chuckle. :)

He is such a weird and creepy guy. Even back veggie these stores when these stories came to light he had a weird vibe to him.

I cannot fathom how anyone could think “yeah, this guy would be an excellent President!”

Edit: curse you uncaught autocorrect mistakes!