[-] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This landed on HN like a dead fish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722985

Another submission with what looks like a lot more positive spin got more reaction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726603

Edit choice comment from the latter

If you assume that the costs of inference would continue to decrease while they would be able to get billion people hooked on 42 per dollar plan..

That’s $0.5 trillion revenue rate

A billion people. Paying the equivalent of a premium streaming service. For something that can't even generate pr0n.

Color me skeptical.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

"Customer success" has been creeping into biztalk lately. According to Ed Zitron it refers to that subspecies of salescritter that works with SaaS ~~victims~~customers to ensure they keep expanding their buying.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago

Wow, that entire article is so interesting. To be honest, I'm slowly coming around to cheering for people with low incomes in developing countries destroying Facebook.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago

I Left My Blogger's Life To Become An S-Rank Rationalist Cult Leader In A Bay Area Group House

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago

Your effortpost is appreciated.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago

You're confusing "developing" with "marketing".

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The original post was removed, hence the archive link.

HN figures the real issue was the lack of testing/monitoring, not specifically the use of ChatGPT. But the kind of person who's ok with letting spicy autocomplete write their customer acquisition code is probably not the kind of person knowing how to test and monitor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627558

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago

Yeah these people have found their weird PR niche. There's nothing separating these people from other rich white Americans who can also comfortably provide for ~3 kids with good schooling and higher education. The real pronatalists are the scary Quiverful people who are a lot more numerous but are also religious fundies. There's no way the Collinses can compete with them because that subculture already believes around 90% of what they believe but are more effective at spreading their memes.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A well-respected terminal emulator for the Mac decides to slather on AI sauce, and most users are not happy. But there are others who are outraged that slathering AI sauce onto a product is even seen as a negative. Let's take a break from HN to take a look at the tortured souls on lobste.rs who won't let this aggression stand, man:

https://lobste.rs/s/7aglnr/psa_iterm2_now_has_chatgpt_integration

archive link in case mods decide to nuke it

Personal favs:

This is the sort of hatred and resentment that is uncomfortable to see on a public forum.

Hi, this is the internet, you must be new here.

I’m mostly checked out of here as a result until the mods get it under control.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.


Edit as a bonus, here's the HN discussion. Same situaton there, the promptfondlers are surprised everyone is mad

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 8 months ago

I reacted to that too, "no need to be an overt WN now that society accepts us!" but I think that's partly bravado.

For example, he loves Twitter now but Elon still hasn't given his account back...

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

Funniest detail to me is that this server lobotomy apparently fucked up Ron DeSanti’s stupid Twitter Spaces candidacy announcement. Of course RdS is never gonna be prez no matter how much techbros are fluffing him.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

"We need to ensure the AI is aligned!"

"OK, we've trained it not to be racist"

"No not like that!"

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