Notices by jacquelines 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)

every ai booster's argument is "this slot machine that kills the world makes me feel good, so if u make me feel bad about it u must be wrong"

every ai guy says "i carefully reviewed everything!" but then u actually read the code and it's dogshit

every ai guy says "u can't argue the quality; new models actually are genuinely good" and then u actually read the code and it's dogshit

every pro ai discourse relies on the idea that u will never actually go and look at the results yourself and see that they're shit

we actually have tangara 2 ready to go, but for public safety we haven't rolled it out yet. it's too powerful.

RE: https://chaos.social/@jacqueline/116564483752072118

you, a fool: laughing at this bc copy pasting and changing a number yourself is easy

me, a genius: laughing at this because it changes "parmigiano reggiano" into "parmesan"

It all starts with the cursor, the first thing you see when you open up your laptop. For being the most often used tool on your laptop, it really hasn’t seen much change since the right-click was added.

rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

new blog post from me! https://jacqueline.id.au/agentic-ai/

hey, thanks so much for your pr! before i review, could u please confirm that you've followed all our contribution guidelines? u can read them here: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

“is there a docker dev container?” no, learn to use your computer

i feel like i don't have the words to properly describe how it feels to see people who opinions i respected and valued slowly fall into ai psychosis. it's so slow and so subtle at first. "i'm just experimenting! i'm not an ai booster!"

then wait a few months, and they start explaining with the usual flawed, incoherent reasoning how actually it's all very interesting and thought-provoking, whilst pointing at an LLM that is so obviously just a reflection of their own ego.

from https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

> We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.

it's interesting how u can usually spot heavy claude code users just by their general tone. seems bad.

@aburka @emily it's so cool how all the general-purpose 'assistant' LLMs are personified as women and all the coder LLMs are personified as men

getting good quality audio out of a portable device is quite a lot harder than people seem to think ime

the main difficulty is that nobody makes a good dac

i found the perfect part for tangara gen 2 but it only comes in a 36-pin 0.4mm pitch bga package

big 0.80

cool tech zone is unaffected by the us-east-1 outage!! fuck amazon and fuck jeff bozo!!!!!