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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Let’s suppose they somehow perfect LLMs to write code.

    So now we can tell in plain English what our applications need to do! But English (and most human languages) are open to interpretation so our prompts need to be really detailed and unequivocal. Hum, wasn’t that the reason we made programming languages in the first place? In order to provide concise and unequivocal instructions to computers?

    And as you say, LLMs don’t think, don’t have domain-specific knowledge they can apply, and don’t ask questions where things are unclear or problematic.

    Crappy copy/pasta jobs for crappy applications will suffer but there will always be a place for talented programmers.












  • The link between conspiracies and ads is way stronger than that. The ad industry really went into high gear following WWII when the people working on pumping out propaganda to drive their own side of the war stepped up the game by applying psychology, new media, and a bigger budget.

    Those people and techniques then moved to the commercial market when the war ended and applied their trade to peddle us the crap their customers wanted to sell. Make us feel bad if we don’t buy product X and go on an endless consumption treadmill to try to feel good and adequate about ourselves.

    It is despicable and even worse with ads targeting children.