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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 20:24:31 JST mhoye

   One of the less remarked-on problems with generative AI is that its greatest proponents are also - and, hear me out here, perhaps not coincidentally - absolutely full of shit all the time. https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/115047226960048724

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 20:27:17 JST Rich Felker

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     @mhoye This is really the key/only important point. When someone is a known scammer/bulshitter, you never listen to anything they say. Ever. Again. You don't keep "well this time it might be different"ing. 🤦

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 20:58:16 JST Rich Felker

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     • George B

     @gbargoud @samir @mhoye Here it's not the intern but the person who keeps telling you they'd make a great intern. Nepofucks.

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     George B (gbargoud@masto.nyc)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 20:58:17 JST George B

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     • samir, lost and found

     @samir @dalias @mhoye

     Also if the intern never actually learns from their mistakes

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     samir, lost and found (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 20:58:19 JST samir, lost and found

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @mhoye That’s one of the reasons I don’t use an LLM!

     I did try it once, for coding. It lied to me. So I didn’t use it again.

     People keep saying “it’s like an intern”. If an intern repeatedly lies to your face, they are bad at the one thing they need to be good at, and I would absolutely forgive you for firing them.