But it’s well in line with their other traditional focus: Bribery and corruption

True. So in six months, the market will be flooded with cheap, barely-used “AI” server hardware no one wants, and RAM for PCs will still be stupid expensive, because we live in the stupidest timeline.

In six months, the market will be absolutely flooded with cheap barely-used RAM.

We have. Every day. Whether we want to or not.

It feels like that fucking asshole has been raping our minds for years.

Well of course. They knew all along that they’ve been cultivating a base driven by unreasoning fear and hate, and they know full well how violent such people can be.

There was never a moment when the politicians pushing that fear and hate didn’t know they were full of shit.

A software developer found out that the failing company they’re at, which was winding down for business reasons, decided to try becoming a zombie company by replacing its software stack (and employees) with a vibe-coded SaaS piece of garbage that’s broken in dozens of ways.

Not really. I’m using Copilot for my job because I’m required to, but I limit it to creating basic scripts that accomplish very specific tasks, which it’s okay at. I never let it touch my actual codebase.

Every experiment I’ve run to test how it does with real code from a large, production application has failed miserably. It introduces mocks, it duplicates stuff everywhere, it fakes shit when real APIs are available… I have no fucking idea how these “AI” companies have managed to convince so many businesses that producing catastrophically shitty code very quickly is a good thing.

There is exactly one situation in which it sort of makes sense: Copilot integrated with VS Code, running repo-specific commands like yarn build, with direct human oversight.

That’s it. That’s the only situation.

mind horse blowing.

It was right there.

You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?

Welp, there went any urge I might have had to fly anywhere in the continental United States.

Assuming we survive this fascist shit as a country, one of the first things we need to do is a constitutional amendment removing the pardon power from the president and putting it into the hands of a committee with appointees from all three branches.

No. Is no okay with you, USDA? How about with a side order of fuck you?

I call bullshit. A large language model does nothing until you interact with it. You set tasks for it, it does those tasks, and when it’s done, it just waits for the next task. If you don’t give it one, it can’t act autonomously - no, not even the misnamed “autonomous agents.”

Alternate headline: Bannon tells GOP they’ve been doing just an absolute fuckton of crimes.

Sadly, getting sued is exactly what these hate-filled pieces of shit want. They want it to go to SCOTUS, which will merrily say, “fuck precedent, let’s make the gays stop marrying. Get back in the closet!”

Throw the actual ICE “agents” who did that into prison for kidnapping and human trafficking. There have to be consequences for shit like this.

Have some sympathy for them. After all, what other choice do they have? They spent the entire campaign and all of the Biden administration lying continuously about how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, how frequently they cross the border, how many are dangerous… basically, their entire campaign was built on obvious, blatant lies for stupid people.

So now they don’t have any other option but to layer on additional lies about how effective ICE is and to “deport” people here legally - sometimes to countries they’ve never been in.

Have some sympathy. Being this psychotically evil is hard work!

Living up to the username, I see.

The thing is, it really won’t. The context window isn’t large enough, especially for a decently-sized application, and that seems to be a fundamental limitation. Make the context window too large, and the LLM gets massively offtrack very easily, because there’s too much in it to distract it.

And LLMs don’t remember anything. The next time you interact with it and put the whole codebase into its context window again, it won’t know what it did before, even if the last session was ten minutes ago. That’s why they so frequently create bloat.