Tweet from Reverend Jordan Wells: "Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican. The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend."
This is an incredible tweet.
This is old. It was a petition, and it was immediately rejected.
At the time, this was an exaggeration, it's now misinformation.
I was honestly kind of astounded when I realised I could just go buy a computer chair, and like, as long as it's made for adults it would be fine (high 182kg/403lb, current 96kg/211lb)
My theory is that something like 80% of its training data was recipe blogs and it got so sick of seeing novels about making lasagne that it decided brevity was the way to go when it comes to recipes.
Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"
BBC can also exclusively report that water is wet, the sky is blue, and war is peace.
A screenshot of a DM notification. The sender's handle has been obscured. It reads: "It seems you rarely use the Blue Sky platform; perhaps you don't intend to communicate with me here. You simply hope to make me friends, learn new knowledge, and benefit everyone."
I'm not gonna tag you or anything yet, but if you see this, please read my bio. I literally can't reply to you, and this is getting uncomfortable. It's inappropriate to guilt someone for not replying to your DMs, and this is stressing me out.
I'm having a pleasant interaction in YouTube comments
With someone who's disagreeing with me
What the fuck is this am I dead?
Why post AI slop of cute dogs when they're literally one of the cutest creatures to ever exist and any video of an actual dog would be at least a million times better than this trash?
LOS ANGELES - URGENT! I'm heartbroken that my friend and neighbor has only a few days to live. We must find a loving forever home for her 2 kitties, Kit (F/grey/white) & Caboodle (M/black). Both 3-4yrs old, total sweethearts. Please ask around and send anyone interested my way, thank you ❤️
"We optimise for higher token usage"
"Holy shit not like that"
Whenever I drop my wife off at uni, I get confused, as they appear to be admitting toddlers these days (I am approaching forty)
Fuck OpenAI
TW: gun violence, pedophilia, sexual violence, racism
A review pass sounds interesting. The slop I've received was from a product manager who absolutely doesn't know how to write good code. I'm seeing how that happened, and how to avoid. A review pass might help speed up the bottleneck I'm experiencing in review.
Agreed, and I kind of touched on that in the rest of the thread.
It's not as simple as "AI makes code real fast". Most of my time is going through the code and exploring/directing changes with it.
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
That's great, but I do need to stay on top of it, get it to explain its code, how it fits in the broader context, rethink things.
And that eats into the productivity gains a lot. Most of my time on a ticket with Claude is review and rework.
Anyway, the code I'm dealing with is a less of legacy code and three failed transformation projects, and it's actually really good at figuring out how everything's hooked up. It has allowed me to tackle issues I wouldn't have been able to before.
But you will wind up with slop if you just look at the local change and don't question the narrative. If you do this too much, without stepping back, you wind up with a mess that only AI can understand.
Maybe that's fine. I see it as business risk, but others don't.
It has little taste for readability and maintainability. It doesn't consider the story the code is telling.
And in a sense, that's okay, because those things don't matter to it. It can handle that complexity easily. It's great at taking a bunch of messy data and making sense of it.
Claude has system prompts to mitigate this. It really wants to write tests, for example. Really really wants to. It wants to write them and run them.
But in trying to implement some functionality, it tends to look for the quickest path to satisfy the user's query.
It's also trained to answer user queries, and it will take the shortest path to that. It's lazy.
In coding, that could be whacking an extra conditional on to handle the issue the user raised, rather than looking for the root cause and rethinking the approach.
In humans, laziness shows up in two main ways:
- Refusal;
- Lackluster implementation.
Someone may refuse to do the dishes, or they may do them, but not go around collecting all the mugs.
AI doesn't do the first. It's tireless, it doesn't refuse. It's trained not to refuse.
I've been working with Claude for a while now, doing the whole vibe coding thing.
And I've gotta say, it's better than I thought it'd be, but I can absolutely see how it makes slop.
The conclusion I've come to is that AI is lazy. It doesn't feel lazy, due to how it implements laziness.
It always kind of surprises me to see a screenshot of Google search results.
I haven't used Google regularly for search in about five years. I only use it when I need to for work to test SEO.
But Google is absolutely not the only good option anymore. It hasn't been for a while.
I appreciate the intent behind this, but query parameters aren't inherently bad. They've been co-opted for tracking, but that's not what they're about. They were one of the earliest ways to do dynamic content on the web.
Big tech has distorted many good ideas, and that is bad, fuck them.
He doesn't know what Jesus or doctors looks like, and he wants us to believe he's a healthy, religious man?
Someone actually tried to DM me here.
Which reminds me, I live in Australia, and as such, Bluesky requires that I verify my age before I'm able to use DMs.
I'm not willing to provide my ID to some random vendor I've never heard of to unlock that feature.
Fuck age verification.
"keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it’s immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like “yeah so this is going to happen to the internet” and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don’t even get paid for it"
how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet
link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...
Is the Pope meant to be strong on crime?
That sounds like criticising my dentist for not knowing Python. Like, that may be true, idk, but it doesn't seem super relevant to what I'm expecting from her.