Notices by datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs I find myself wishing that I was in a little capsule getting away from here as fast as I possibly could.

(But then I remember that they have Outlook and Windows in that capsule. Possibly Teams, too.)

@mattly I feel much the same way. My OCD is one reason I *strongly* prefer to avoid conversational or "agentic" LLM systems.

@thomasfuchs @dcrossney (Footnote: I don't think books are going away, ever.

Radio, TV, the PC and the Internet were all supposed to kill books, and none of them did. LLMs certainly won't.)

@thomasfuchs @dcrossney *Obviously* LLMs don't make books obsolete; how on Earth could they?

I was responding to the point that the invention of writing led to LLMs.

@thomasfuchs Oh, heavens no. There's a diversity of vendors.

You can choose between two evil megacorporations, a fascist billionaire's ketamine-addled hobby project and two apocalyptic cults.

@mattly How do you figure that would work?

(because communicating on the internet is the worst: I'm not being snarky, I want to know.)

@mattly Yes, and I've been thinking similar things about online communities in general.

But I don't really see how this would apply to the distribution of code?

(It seems to me that functionally, the only two options now are public domain, or hiding it behind eg. a cloud service.)

@thomasfuchs Today, I saw this little meditation from the developer of Gram, a fork of the Zed editor.

https://gram.liten.app/posts/go-slow-and-fix-things/

@mattly In the playthrough I'm currently paused on I used a "trick" during character generation: If you pick one of the pregenerated characters and then press "back", you can use a pregen character sprite with an otherwise custom character.

The reason I did this was that I *really* wanted to play a Greybeard who looks like the Dream Tortoise. I like the idea of a very old turtle-man wandering around hitting evildoers with a stick and berating them.

@thomasfuchs Describe it to me.

I need some beauty in computing.

@thomasfuchs A lemon.

@mattly Right.

I've been very fortunate out in the offline world.

Frighteningly many programmers I've met online have been complete assholes - rich or not.

@mattly (I'm not sure I get the connection.)

@mattly counterpoint: I'm a programmer with a fairly broad humanities background, and I seem to be a lot more miserable than those Silicon Valley fuckheads.

@thomasfuchs Also, most of the slop machine enthusiasts I know aren't concerned about deskilling because they say skills are worthless now anyway.

@thomasfuchs Sure. I'm saying that there's a considerable blast radius as well.

@thomasfuchs AI code doesn't just make the user feel like shit, it also makes everyone around them feel like shit.

(Although in fairness, that might have less to do with AI itself, and more to do with how it seems like loud AI bros generally just seem to enjoy making other people feel like shit.)

@mattly ¿por que no los dos?

@mattly @technomancy Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead died on the 28th of December 2015 and has not been able to protect our timeline since then.

@mattly They've been with me in various forms for my entire life.

The particular trigger/focus is new (as is the intensity in the last 3 years, which is unlike anything I've ever tried before), but the pattern hasn't changed since I was a little kid terrified that I'd die of asthma in the night. Or that nuclear war would break out. Or that I'd develop another terrible disease. Or, or, or .... , or that AI would make me superfluous.