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   Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 13:59:45 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   Amazing. Just amazing. "Microsoft Office Clippy" is just so bloody on point.

   https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/office-365/microsofts-dumbest-rebrand-in-its-near-50-year-history-just-got-even-dumber

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 13:59:40 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Anyway, xkcd said everything that needs to be said about "prompt engineering" back in #1827.

     https://xkcd.com/1827/

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 13:59:42 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Never mind that that cuts against the whole narrative that's being used to sell AI: that people can, irrespective of skill, access immense amounts of knowledge in a conversational and context-aware fashion.

     When that pipe dream fails to materialize, they just invent a new buzzword to explain away the abject failure of AI to do anything bloody useful.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 13:59:43 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Also, this shit is one of the many reasons I keep harping on about how ridiculous the idea of "prompt engineering" is. OpenAI and MS can just sweep away blame for the fact that their products not only don't work, they cannot work.

     Just make it users' fault!

     https://mastodon.world/@paninid/113841657759167868