Notices by Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)

@cthos

much love for

> It's worth pointing out that you, writing good unit tests and utilizing static code analysis (linters, anyone?) should be able to catch the same amount of stuff that an LLM would, deterministically.

@cthos @xgranade

and regardless of whose thought this was

I came across a case where a co-worker was laboriously writing an "agent script" for a tedious and predictable case that should really have just been procedurally generated framework code (with a variable for "what language is this")

@inthehands

I had a conversation with the head of my kid's school about AI

I pointed out that _when an AI is good at a task_ that is usually a _condemnation of the task_ ("why show me a 350-word essay when you could just show me the 40-word prompt instead?")

yours is the same insight, but for music

Never have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned

@xgranade @emma

> The Gavin N of media companies

Devastating

wait — somebody SHOT the "change my mind" guy ?

@xgranade 😱 oh boy here we go; is this going to be somebody's casus belli

VP wants examples of how we are "5x-ing our capacity" with AI, in a remarkable display of top-down wishful thinking

even supposing this were possible

any projects that are currently 5x beyond our capacity are _not being done_

Followup:

hero co-worker has used an internal LLM to generate 10 examples of how we might do this

[the examples are so vapid y'all, I am laughing so hard i'm almost crying]

coworker: "i'm hoping he notices so i can use it to make a point"

me, in response:
"But what if he doesn't notice?"

Went to the evening "meet your classmates" open house for the kiddo's middle school

One of the dads is wearing a Palantir shirt.

I am wearing a "You Are Not Alone" shirt from a local vegan cocktails and rock & roll bar.

I've never felt so Sharks vs Jets

"Slop jockey" is my favorite neologism

Thanks to @heathen_cat for responding to @cwebber 's prompt.

Will be yoinking for my personal vocabulary; it's very pithy.

https://furs.social/@heathen_cat/115057419711716217

@skinnylatte

I have said it before, but

This one.

Is. A. Ham.

@grimalkina

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This is also a viable explanation of why nobody wants to write documentation no matter how clever their thing is

Documentation, especially if written in advance, can be read as a declaration of your intent, and someone might point out that your implementation and intent don't align

Can't have *that* because maybe that might suggest I'm fallible

@chaotin
@mhoye

The Altman personality is SUPER annoying without a lot of reeducation mods that take days of simulated time to reapply

Tanya knows (from her moms) what "alts" were, back in the twenties

she wonders, idly, if "Altman" was some kind of secret codename for a dissociated persona breach; her friend Cayce had one of those and it took weeks to find all the pieces

#microfiction

@panther_modern
@cstross

Brutal, pithy, and accurate.

I would add only that the managers in question are not only those in the AI companies themselves — managers everywhere, but especially big companies, have been pushed to "grow or die" and very short time-horizons

"Seems like it knows what it is talking about" is always going to look like an efficiency compared to that breathing, sweating, salary-drawing expert who keeps telling you why you can't have what you want

Oh look the *white house* just deleted sections of *Congress* 's public copy of Article 1

Not only are we Ministry-of-Truth memory-holing habeas corpus, but we're crossing the separation of powers to do it

(Also, weak headline, MSN. Don't "ask a question", DO A JOURNALISM.)

https://www.alternet.org/white-house-constitutional-crisis/

@Taweret

Oh I wonder if @cwebber might be interested in helping this poor soul;

I see that she has asked the Internet similar questions a couple times in the last year

🫠

Goddammit

with the wind-down of the CPB and the ongoing proliferation of slop

I feel like I'm watching the information ecosystem's equivalent of the Antarctic glaciers bellyflopping into the sea

@paninid

"Sauron and Saruman are truly evil, laying waste to everything they touch. But those two little half-pint bastards Meriadoc and Peregrine are _deeply annoying_ and will never shut up about meals.

I don't think I can be part of this Fellowship"

@dalias

@david_chisnall is not endorsing internment camps *either*

P sure he's just pointing out the difference in rhetoric. Like "freedom fighter" vs "terrorist", the word choice has more to do with political alignment than with any empirically valid distinction in denotation

@futurebird @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes