istewart

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this guy's information diet is 90% recycled memes by volume, isn't it

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Something to which they, and people like them, are entitled

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

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Surely Wikia could have catapulted to the upper echelons of the Fortune 500 if they had just moved faster to gatekeep the facts about gender-swapped Lady Vegeta being a rare card in set 27 of the Dragonball gacha game

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In this context, "moat" is a cargo-cult invocation of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Just another square on the hackernews bingo

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Promptfondler DLC for Disco Elysium is a big disappointment so far

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

yeah don't do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99's continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

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of course somebody prompted up a LessWrong-specific chatbot

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twitter gon' have nothin' left but the cranks

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crazy people who look sort of like me but younger.

giving away the game a bit, Mr. Schmidt

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Despite the industry's deeply ingrained neophilia, I think it speaks to the importance of backwards compatibility and legacy systems.

I can't help but think that the genAI craze will end up being a regrettable side-quest along the path to "coding for non-programmers" akin to Visual Basic. But hey, I bet there's a lot more legacy VB apps being kept alive out there than anyone would be comfortable with.

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