ME:: Bad for the environment yet good for already privileged experts who have time and energy to experiment seems to be the common thread of this ever evolving ML world ; Thomas Ptacek:: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
Discovered: Jun 5, 2025 18:09 ME:: Bad for the environment yet good for already privileged experts who have time and energy to experiment seems to be the common thread of this ever evolving ML world ; Thomas Ptacek:: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog <– ROFL
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Call any of this out if you want to watch a TED talk about how hard it is to stream The Expanse on LibreWolf. Yeah, we get it. You don’t believe in IPR. Then shut the fuck up about IPR. Reap the whirlwind.
It’s all special pleading anyways. LLMs digest code further than you do. If you don’t believe a typeface designer can stake a moral claim on the terminals and counters of a letterform, you sure as hell can’t be possessive about a red-black tree. … When I started writing a couple days ago, I wrote a section to “level set” to the state of the art of LLM-assisted programming. A bluefish filet has a longer shelf life than an LLM take. In the time it took you to read this, everything changed.
Kids today don’t just use agents; they use asynchronous agents. They wake up, free-associate 13 different things for their LLMs to work on, make coffee, fill out a TPS report, drive to the Mars Cheese Castle, and then check their notifications. They’ve got 13 PRs to review. Three get tossed and re-prompted. Five of them get the same feedback a junior dev gets. And five get merged