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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
In the endless genAI shit that the bird site pushes on me, this caught my eye because it seems like a dream tool for a non-tech suit to generate blame examples for engineers https://xcancel.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1840941643223945561
@fasterandworse @blakestacey seems cursed
i .... have no idea whatsoever what the use case is here ... you make the chatbot generate the code instead of cloning the repo? or it's like generating an API that doesn't work or something?
Think it is an attempt to make it easier to feed somebodies work into a LLM. So you know, stealing.
Yeah it just collates everything in the repo into a single text file so you can upload that to the shit machine
Astounding, they've made noSQL for filesystems!
....... and then what..................
Ok I found a similar tool in the tweets replies and here's what it suggests prompting the chatbot with
These people use chatbots daily yet still seem to be under the impression that LLMs are competent. I don't even know what to say.
This is why I say I can only imagine the non-tech suits using it to be assholes to the dev team
Yeah, I can at least understand why people would ask a chatbot about bits of codes, but feeding it an entire codebase in one go and expecting something coherent out of it is mind boggling. Awful awful.
@Amoeba_Girl this is irretrievably cursed
fucking… that’s all? some shit you can do moments after learning about the GitHub API for the first time? and I shouldn’t be surprised, but this is the code that people were fellating in the Twitter comments and/or using to advertise their own shitware?
fucker, how are you like this?