Nobody's going to rip off enterprise software, and that's what this is for.

What you do with this is you go grab open-source stuff, "cleanroom copy" it, and then sell it to customer as your own work.

It's the McDonald's promise: maybe we're not the best cheeseburgers, maybe we aren't even *good* cheeseburgers, but you are never ever going to get one of our cheeseburgers that surprises you by being *worse* than the other ones you've had.

Reliably producing inoffensive slop is a benefit for customers in public-facing situations, for whom the random chance of sending out something offensive is one of their nightmares.

Intellectually, Ridcully maintained his position for two reasons. One was that he never, ever, changed his mind about anything. The other was that it took him several minutes to understand any new idea put to him, and this is a very valuable trait in a leader, because anything anyone is still trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so is almost certainly something they shouldn't have been bothering you with in the first place. (p. 38)

This even showed up as a joke in Discworld.

And a surprising amount of the things we made humans do turned out to be just proof-of-work that showed the thing had value to us.

Which means that "living near Washington DC" suddenly has incredible value again.

Like, what happens when there are suddenly 40,000 FOIA responses for every drug application the FDA has ever received?

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

please tell me before I block you that you are at least aware of what I'm talking about here

Scene from the movie "The Babadook". A woman with unkempt hair is screaming. Text on the screen reads "why can't you just be normal?!"

I think the issue is the number of people in positions of authority as teachers and school administrators whose idea of structure and support to develop the skills for functioning in a complex adult world looks pretty much like this:

If she'd just said to their employer "hey these guys were cracking snotty jokes" do you think they'd have been fired for it?

"morality-cascade mobs aren't a good way to address social issues" was something we got told was just geeks and nerds and misogynists crying that they were finally experiencing consequences for rotten behavior

now you know how we felt when we said "hey maybe turbocancelling people for snickering about the word 'dongle' was a bad idea"

Oh that's not the AI, that's just hiring, I had to personally make an appeal to get a guy hired as an engineer here and he'd just got done designing and setting up a mass-production line for a chip-scale component. But He Didn't Have A College Degree, and that *really* bothered the hiring staff!

I've been surprised how many times I've been asked to come talk to someone in person, where I read the text of my email at them and suddenly somehow they understand it. It's like there's some connection between ears and brain that isn't there for the eyes.

like, no shit I'm using AI to write targeted cover letters, most of the listing out there are smokescreens anyway

Ruthless isn't benevolent.

welcome to Galt's Gulch, here's your complimentary gun, bullets are $12.95 each

I mean, do people say "follow me on Biskey" the way they used to say "follow me on Twitter"?

It's just really bringing home that health is mostly from the genes, and lifestyle only matters if you pick something that triggers them the wrong way.

The problem with trying to redefine "class" in an American context is that everyone who does it always ends up saying "there's a class of Cool Awesome People and me and all my friends are in it, there's a class of Icky Dumb People and all the guys I detest are in it, everyone else is Normies."

Twitter started going downhill when they doubled the character limit.

Call it the Circumcision Principle: Whatever it is, it'll look better with 10% cut off.

Although there's an awful lot of people who don't know the difference between feedback and a dunk competition...

and further strange realizing that the people who pay for things are happy enough with 70% so long as it's free and not *all* of the users leave

As I saw on Twitter, "some people have never been told 'shut the fuck up' out loud and it really shows."

Some internet jokes will never die.

I'm only interested if it turns into a submarine.

Maybe that Diane Duane lady, is she still available? She'd probably be good for a couple episodes.