Ye gods! Also, great write-up!

Do you reckon that Altman recognized the gacha potential from the get-go? That Big LLM has always been FanDuel for dorks, but on purpose?

A hackernews muses about vibe coding a chatbot to provide therapy for people in crisis. Soon, an actual health care professional shows up to butcher the offender and defile the corpse. This causes much tut-tutting and consternation among the locals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535197

Edit: a shower thought: have any of yall noticed the way that prompt enjoyers describe using Cursor, tab completions, and such are a repackaging of the psychology of loot boxes? In particular, they share the variable-interval reward schedule that serves as the hook in your typical recreational gambling machines.

Mark Zuckerberg would like to know your location

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The web is often Dead Dove in a Bag as a Service innit?

oof! That’s hilarious!

A Supabase employee pleads with his software to not leak its SQL database like a parent pleads with a cranky toddler in a toy store.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318

This is so Charlie Stross coded that I tried to read the Mastodon comments.

Lesswrong is a Denial of Service attack on a very particular kind of guy

I’m going to put a token down and make a prediction: when the bubble pops, the prompt fondlers will go all in on a “stabbed in the back” myth and will repeatedly try to re-inflate the bubble, because we were that close to building robot god and they can’t fathom a world where they were wrong.

The only question is who will get the blame.

They should have invested in a boat if they had to have a depreciating asset

HEMI – Hot Extropians Making Inquiries

Please calm down.

lol

academ-ick

I’m just not going to waste my time with curve pointers who want to die on the hill of NeW sCaLiNG pArAdIgM. They are just too deep in the kool-aid at this point.

The singularity is near worn-out at this point.

LLMs are seven or eight bipartite graphs in a trench coat. Is your brain seven neurons thick, because that would explain a few things.

Very practical no notes

What if we made a human centipede with a homeopathic quantity of human in it?

Don’t make me tap the sign:

no gods, no kings

This is what a lifetime of never suffering a consequence does to a motherfucker