That’s how you get a codebase that kinda sorta works in a way but is more evolved than designed, full of security holes, slow as heck, and disorganized to the point where it’s impossible to fix bugs, adds features, or understand what’s going on.

Well, one of the ways *glancing at the code I’m responsible for, sweating profusely*

resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error

At first, I couldn’t believe that the staff didn’t catch that. But thinking about it, no, I totally can.

He’re hoping that the more he spends time gooning the more he’ll leave the rest of us alone. crosses fingers

When I read Excel Copilot, I thought "they finally added a chatbot that lets you generate a spreadsheet/range/table processing a datasource. Like “copilot, create a table that aggregates prices by category from table xyz”.

To which I was like “Ok, maybe that could be useful to some of the many non-technical excel users.” I wasn’t prepared for whatever this is.

I mean with vibe-coding/excelling? you eventually get something that can run deterministically.

Are we… are we gonna start seeing terminally AI-pilled bozos implementing gacha mechanics in data pipelines?

Yay! *pats myself on the back*

I have no idea what is good web design. I’ll just note makes the waving red, white and blue flag in the background makes the white heading text pretty hard to read.

Second quote is classic “you must be prompting it wrong”. No, it can’t be that people which find a tool less useful will be using it less often.

Why would you do waluigi and wario dirty like that?

I think Leathery Pete might have read too much Left Behind.

I’ve been recommended more Veo 3 fails by The Algorithm. Apparently even some promptfans think it sucks.

https://youtu.be/3lzMkigMvD8

You WILL believe what happened when they tried to replicate Google’s demos using the exact same prompts.

All enthusiasm for polyamory replaced with enthusiasm for tag team matches

both would be funnier

the model was supposed to be trained solely on his own art

much simpler models are practically impossible to train without an existing model to build upon. With GenAI it’s safe to assume that training that base model included large scale scraping without consent

his other references seem to be more garden variety neo-nazi type

Also apparently pro LGBT neo-nazis, which I refuse to believe are not a parody. See this cursed screenshot:

Are economists considered physical scientists? I’ve read it as “social scientists are dumb except for economists”. Which fits my prejudice for econo-brained less wrongers.

If I find a cool piece of driftwood and frame it, did I do art?

Kinda? I “found” a defective injection molding part, where the color of previous batch seeped in in a pattern that looks like a flower. It’s really pretty. That there is no intention behind it makes it more interesting to me. It wasn’t trivial to put it on a wall. I had to use nails and iron wire and then balance it. I am fine with not calling it art. On a scale 1-10 it definitely is not more than 2.

I think it’s more like Alien vs Predator.

“Both what I’ve seen, and what the administration sees, is you all are one of the most respected technology groups in the federal government,” Shedd told TTS workers. “You guys have been doing this far longer than I’ve been even aware that your group exists.”

(emphasis mine)

Well, maybe start acting like it champ.

I’m wondering about the benchmark too. It’s way above my level to figure out how it can be gamed. But, buried in the article:

Moreover, ARC-AGI-1 is now saturating – besides o3’s new score, the fact is that a large ensemble of low-compute Kaggle solutions can now score 81% on the private eval.

The most expensive o3 version achieved 87.5%

Man I don’t need to be reminded of the sorry state of meat alternatives.

It’s bitterly funny to me that fashoid governments started banning cultivated meat as if the economic and technical issues weren’t enough. Ignorants terrified of threats they made up in their head as always.

The promptfans testing OpenAI Sora have gotten mad that it’s happening to them and (temporarily) leaked access to the API.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/artists-appears-to-have-leaked-access-to-openais-sora/

“Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, feedback and experimental work for the [Sora early access] program for a $150B valued [sic] company,” the group, which calls itself “Sora PR Puppets,” wrote in a post …

“Well, they didn’t compensate actual artists, but surely they will compensate us.”

“This early access program appears to be less about creative expression and critique, and more about PR and advertisement.”

OK, I could give them the benefit of the doubt: maybe they’re new to the GenAI space, or general ML Space … or IT.

But I’m not going to. Of course it’s about PR hype.