I don’t think any of us expected him to say that

When Harry Met Scully

Detective Fox Mulder of the Revachol Citizens Militia

That’s the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!

To be fair, this all started under the Biden administration with the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.

The US is increasingly concerned that, if China invades Taiwan, it will completely lock them out from semiconductor manufacturing and crater the US economy. Rather than flex their soft power and exercise a little diplomacy like the US used to do in decades past, they’ve apparently decided that the invasion of Taiwan is inevitable and the only course of action is to bolster semiconductor manufacturing at home.

Trump, of course, has all the subtlety of a torpedo and his rhetoric here has been needlessly antagonistic… but yeah, this whole thing started under Biden and now Trump is pretending it was always his idea. So really the thing he stole was the policy.

So did his dad

lolwut

Jesus Danny…

lmao wtf

This is a trillion dollar technology, ladies and gentlemen!

You’ve really gotta admire his outright contempt at the thought of even attempting a Russian accent in that movie.

God, I wish I could get groceries for 70…

I see you know your judo vocabulary well!

I call this shit zero-sum optimization. In order to “optimize” for the desires of management, you always have to deoptimize something else.

Before AI became the tech craze du jour I had a VP get obsessed with microservices (because that’s what Netflix uses so it must be good). We had to tear apart a mature and very efficient app and turn it into hundreds of separate microservices… all of which took ~100 milliseconds to interoperate across the network. Pages that used to take 2 seconds to serve before now took 5 or 10 because of all the new latency required to do things they used to be able to do basically for free. And it’s not like this was a surprise. We knew this was going to happen.

But hey, at least our app became more “modern” or whatever…

Overuse of H-1B visas.

It’s literally a system of indentured servitude and corpos are just free to abuse it with impunity.

I doubt there’s any human to harass in this case

Exactly.

These are just statistical models trained on the natural language output of real humans. If real humans are statistically likely to ignore instructions in a particular case (or do other undesirable things like misunderstand, lie, confabulate, etc), then the statistical model trained to simulate human output will do the same.

It would only be surprising if this weren’t the case.

Reminds me of those old “Upvote this Nazi flag so Google thinks it’s the Comcast logo” threads you used to see on Reddit.

Tiananmen Square is an obvious poison pill for Chinese-trained models, but I wonder what topics are controversial enough to cripple stuff like chatGPT, Gemini, etc…

Bobson Dugnutt is headlining next year

Man… of all the vibe coding tools, Lovable has gotta be one of the most useless, too.

I work with people (all middle managers) who love Loveable because they can type a two sentence description of an app and it will immediately vomit something into existence. But the code it generates is an absolute disaster and the UIs it designs (which is supposed to be its main draw) is some of the most generic crap I’ve ever seen.

0/10, do not recommend.

Do you have any good recommendations for alternatives?