One of the top threads on the ClaudeAI subreddit right now: "I am done with this shit" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pixelate @emma @ahltorp @cwebber

yes

and you did not in your initial remark indicate you being blind was the reason for your AI use

"but that's obvious!"

ok. but can we at least say the initial conflict was about defending AI? and that people dislike that? and that if they put in the effort, they might be able to deduce why you are saying what you are saying. but this means the disagreement is simply about miscommunication and not malice?

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@benroyce @emma @ahltorp @cwebber Wait that's not obvious? Okay I think this is enough internet for the day, I'm gonna play Magic the Gathering Arena or something. Thank goodness for accessibility mods.

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@alice @cwebber If that ever became my job I would just walk away and and let Claude bareback.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pixelate @emma @ahltorp @cwebber

all i am saying is that the world is a nicer place when you first look to see if there is miscommunication involved first, before seeing malice. there is also malice in the world, of course. but again, the point is to avoid agita

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@lrhodes @cwebber

it's far worse than that

look at the age of this sub:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/

11 years

there are improved models:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

7 years

#reddit is a pioneer in fake #bot engagement

the founders of reddit are on record saying 99% of the first userbase/ comments of reddit were all fakes:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/reddit-faked-its-first-users-resurfaced-video-shows-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-admitting-99-of-early-submissions-were-fabricated/articleshow/119263428.cms

reddit is full of bots. a lot of it is fake

enjoy reddit. i do

but know that you are in a sea of markov chain chatbots -> #GPT

and always have been

[jpaskaruk@growers.social]

@indigoparadox @cwebber This is it, this is the take. This.

[pinhman@humanwords.party]

@Npars01 @cwebber An industry relying on potential bankruptcy? See Canadian agriculture.

It’s gone from family farms that watched out and supported each other, to little corporate agricultural operations waiting for nearby farms to fail, to allow their expansion.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@benroyce @emma @ahltorp @cwebber I would like to apologize to everyone on this thread for assuming the worst of people, and adding my fire to an already hot topic.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@pinhman @cwebber

That is likely what heavily capitalized billionaires like Musk are hoping for; waiting for smaller AI corporations to get swallowed by bigger ones.

He gains their customer base along with the acquisition.

Or he could do another TikTok, convince Trump to force a sale to a crony under "national security".

The end result being all human knowledge under the control of a handful of oligarchs & metered out predatorially, with end users never sure if AI answers are correct.

[lidsel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TooMuchCoffee @cwebber Bruh, you would've been nudged toward TDD by sheer self-preservation as a sole maintainer of a codebase.

[toomuchcoffee@mastodon.social]

@lidsel @cwebber

I am retired from 40 years of writing software. And I assure that the help Claude gives would have made my life easier.

I am also an old Smalltalker, and very aware of Kent Beck's ideas, which Claude seems to embrace.

[lidsel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jpaskaruk @compfu @TooMuchCoffee @cwebber I hope this terrifying experiment results in us getting this kind of research assistance tools without all the bad, potentially civilization-ending baggage.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pixelate @emma @ahltorp @cwebber

it's all good. i've done the same. we've all done the same. everyone gets frustrated. some double down and never concede a point. some, like you, concede a point, and move on. that's a statement of your character. a very good statement

[cynaq@beige.party]

@alice @cwebber be careful not to burst, I guess

[pinhman@humanwords.party]

@Npars01 @cwebber All manner of federal and provincial funded supports in Canadian agriculture.. Are they supporting farmers, or keeping just enough small corporate risk takers (what used to be family farms) in business to keep the multinationals profitable?

[jpaskaruk@growers.social]

@lidsel Well, that's the key bit, I think - the actually good uses of this software, none of them require a datacentre.

Only investors require datacentres, along with slavery for all humankind. Investors are the only people excited about those things.

But computer programs that teach you how to use them by conversing with you in natural language, we don't need datacentres for that, at all.

@compfu @TooMuchCoffee @cwebber

[slotos@toot.community]

@cwebber Oh G-d, that hits home.

A couple hours ago I was looking at “written by Claude Code” on a PR description that promised a manual verifications having been done, and all I could think of was “did you actually do it, or did your bot just write a nice looking text that you wish was real?..”

I’m tired…

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@pinhman @cwebber

A very good question.

[morgan@sfba.social]

@cwebber bookmarked