ryandvm

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by ryandvm 6d ago
Did anybody think this wasn't going to happen? They weren't going to burn a couple trillion dollars of capital and lose money on every API call just so you could ask it to tell you why your cat brings you dead mice. They're g
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by ryandvm 6d ago
We need legislation that requires all platforms to support a mandatory "algorithm opt out". News, social media, shopping, chatbots, everything - they all become far less predatory and addictive if there's no user stats drivin
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by ryandvm 7d ago
What the actual fuck is this opinion? We wouldn't be so up in arms if the grip were tighter?
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by ryandvm 7d ago
Yeah, there is a suspicious amount of down-voting of anti-surveillance comments in here. I'd say there's about a 99% chance Flock is paying astroturfers.
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by ryandvm 7d ago
"New idea", lol. Diesel locomotives have worked this way since the 1920s.
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by ryandvm 7d ago
I could probably be convinced that some sort of panopticon license plate reader network could be a net positive for society IF it had the necessary and demonstrably infallible audit and oversight systems - especially with respect to the 4
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by ryandvm 12d ago
> Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN Man, if Facebook is hiring people this dumb, it's going to make me feel a lot worse about getting rejected after interviewing there.
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by ryandvm 13d ago
They all have to rely on each other's LLMs to solve their own internal problems now.
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by ryandvm 14d ago
Ads are responsible for the enshitification of everything. Literally everything. - Why is online news just partisan rage-baiting? Ads - Why is real journalism dying? Ads - Why are your web search results less helpful? Ads - Why are recipes
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by ryandvm 15d ago
Great. I'm looking forward to it being less obvious that my colleagues have stopped understanding their jobs.
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by ryandvm 15d ago
Damn, enshittification was already one of the toughest unsolved problems that successful software platforms face. It had not yet occurred to me that AI was going to increase the pace.
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by ryandvm 15d ago
Jesus, please do not remind me that the President in Idiocracy had better leadership skills than our actual President.
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by ryandvm 16d ago
To their credit, they dropped the "Don't be evil" slogan many years ago /s
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by ryandvm 16d ago
I think the worst part is that to the bullshit artists that usually float to the top of any org chart, AI generated docs, and implementation plans, and code is superficially plausible. It's hard to find any particular thing that is wro
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by ryandvm 20d ago
Right? Unless we've figured out Star Trek Welfare, who is buying anything when 50% of the population is unemployed and wages have crashed for the other 50% because of biblical levels of unemployment.
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by ryandvm 20d ago
Yup. I have embraced LLM usage since it's obvious this genie is not going back in the bottle and they are objectively force-multipliers at certain tasks. But I didn't get into software engineering to be productive, I fell into thi
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by ryandvm 20d ago
The real wild shit I'm seeing and having trouble reconciling with continuing my career in this field is that there seems to be a majority contingent of C-suite out there that is absolutely obsessed with force-feeding their organization
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by ryandvm 22d ago
> Of course, the staff also see how you tio before they prep your food... Lol. Yeah, that's where the game theory breaks down for me. I'm all for not tipping people that don't interact with you directly until I start think
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by ryandvm 22d ago
I'm sure they can extract $3,500 worth of value from everyone's existence.
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by ryandvm 22d ago
We just need more leeches .
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by ryandvm 22d ago
Lol. I can't imaging the figures from a Musk venture not holding up.
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by ryandvm 23d ago
100% We're already seeing this at the enterprise level. Companies have dictates from leadership that "if you're writing code manually, you're doing it wrong." Okay, that kind of works for a while. We are indeed prod
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by ryandvm 26d ago
It seems like it would be well within the charter of the Library of Congress to archive a complete scan of every book published in the United States. At least then we wouldn't lose the information. They can figure out distribution and
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by ryandvm 28d ago
Don't count on the Democrats growing any... erhm... spine in the next 2 years.
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by ryandvm 29d ago
Burnt myself on this in Google Maps just this week. I had an appointment in my calendar with the location set to "Dr Firstname Lastname, 123 Main St, 12345". I clicked through it into Google Maps and since it had the full address
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by ryandvm 29d ago
Mmmm - I don't do root cause analysis for free. Best I can do is correlation.
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by ryandvm 1mo ago
Flock can make all the promises it wants, but the reality is that once growth stalls out on camera installations, which it must, shareholders will immediately insist that they pivot into other monetization schemes. There aren't really
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by ryandvm 1mo ago
Man, that is a fuckin stage 4 internet brain worm infection you're dealing with if, when evaluating an LLM, your third criterion is what it thinks about trans people.
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by ryandvm 1mo ago
> * Do not provide assistance to users who are clearly trying to engage in criminal activity. I don't know what we want to call this, but in my opinion, having to convince your tools is not computer science. Kind of amusing that w
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by ryandvm 1mo ago
I dunno. I'm just glad Congress can barely pass any legislation. What an Executive Order does, another Executive Order can just as easily undo.

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