Sigh. OK.
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Sigh. OK. rsync discourse:
This is not a story about “vibe coding” or “slop” or regressions or even open source sustainability or whatever: it’s a story about mental health.
The timeline of Tridge’s response in particular can be broke down like so:
1. AI skeptics say "LLMs create difficult-to-evaluate defects, even if you're careful"
2. Tridge introduces defects even though he was careful
3. he gets yelled at
4. His response is to say "you dinosaurs don't appreciate how *careful* I was!" -
Sigh. OK. rsync discourse:
This is not a story about “vibe coding” or “slop” or regressions or even open source sustainability or whatever: it’s a story about mental health.
The timeline of Tridge’s response in particular can be broke down like so:
1. AI skeptics say "LLMs create difficult-to-evaluate defects, even if you're careful"
2. Tridge introduces defects even though he was careful
3. he gets yelled at
4. His response is to say "you dinosaurs don't appreciate how *careful* I was!"Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
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Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
@glyph I’ve seen this before, and no LLMs were involved. It’s addiction.
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Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
@glyph a piece to this that is getting lost... https://floss.social/@be/116687324445045672
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Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
@glyph yes, it does
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Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
@glyph I've had this sot of thing happen with gamblers before... Like, people who can do - and have done - the math to *prove* what they are doing is a losing bet - but insisting they have a 'system' (that the math and reality don't support) or somesuch thing >.>;
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Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
@glyph bro I’m already full scared I can’t get more scared
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@glyph I've had this sot of thing happen with gamblers before... Like, people who can do - and have done - the math to *prove* what they are doing is a losing bet - but insisting they have a 'system' (that the math and reality don't support) or somesuch thing >.>;
@miss_rodent @glyph Corporate needs you to find the differences: "I have a system" and "prompt engineering."
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@glyph I’ve seen this before, and no LLMs were involved. It’s addiction.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816
@rmi My initial comparisons to substance abuse were somewhat tentative and reluctant, back in January. But these have gone from being a few troubling-but-subtle bits of hearsay and implication to a drumbeat of near-daily incidents and I wish I were not feeling so validated in this particular view
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@glyph I've had this sot of thing happen with gamblers before... Like, people who can do - and have done - the math to *prove* what they are doing is a losing bet - but insisting they have a 'system' (that the math and reality don't support) or somesuch thing >.>;
@glyph (as an aside - going to a casino with a bunch of math nerds, and watching the flashing lights make them entirely forget several years worth of statistics and probabilities is fucking fascinating. Convinced me to stop gambling for any significant amount of money.)
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@glyph a piece to this that is getting lost... https://floss.social/@be/116687324445045672
@be I think I have missed this particular dimension to the discourse, what "hate thread" in particular are you talking about?
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Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!
@glyph Scary yes maybe... but in comparison I'm getting smarter by doing nothing
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@miss_rodent @glyph Corporate needs you to find the differences: "I have a system" and "prompt engineering."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816
@rmi My initial comparisons to substance abuse were somewhat tentative and reluctant, back in January. But these have gone from being a few troubling-but-subtle bits of hearsay and implication to a drumbeat of near-daily incidents and I wish I were not feeling so validated in this particular view
@glyph@mastodon.social @rmi@cloudisland.nz
it seems a fairly apt analogy
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@glyph (as an aside - going to a casino with a bunch of math nerds, and watching the flashing lights make them entirely forget several years worth of statistics and probabilities is fucking fascinating. Convinced me to stop gambling for any significant amount of money.)
@glyph In general,the smartest people you know are almost certainly only one context-switch away from acting like complete fools.
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@be I think I have missed this particular dimension to the discourse, what "hate thread" in particular are you talking about?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816
@rmi My initial comparisons to substance abuse were somewhat tentative and reluctant, back in January. But these have gone from being a few troubling-but-subtle bits of hearsay and implication to a drumbeat of near-daily incidents and I wish I were not feeling so validated in this particular view
@glyph @rmi An observation I've seen elsewhere is that LLMs provide intermittent reward, which is the thing that keeps gambling addicts hooked. Intermittent reward is also something that keeps people in domestic abuse situations, and I feel like it's not the only parallel I can draw between the way LLMs behave and domestic abuse.
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@glyph I’ve seen this before, and no LLMs were involved. It’s addiction.
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@be oh fuck this _is_ channer shit isn't it. and it has that "raid" flavor of "unhinged chan trolls interacting with normies". Yeesh. I have registered my displeasure with certain LLM developments by participating in a few heated threads here and there but this is radioactively bad.
in any event thanks for the heads up
