A sad reality is that a lot of the time when money is on the line people have to be hurt or even die before anything happens. Every regulation came from too many people being hurt by their absence. And we’ve rolled them back so now people are going to have to pay that human cost all over again in order to learn the lessons we already knew.

My intuition would be to just let it go and enjoy the hilarity and let it correct itself. Sometimes the conversation the title creates is more interesting than the conversation about the article itself.

I did view the site. My contention is that Google has changed the required SEO strategy, which this site is still working on figuring out. There have been similar complaints every time there has been a significant algorithm change. This one is just being blamed on AI. Maybe fairly, maybe not.

I know this is about hating on AI, but this seems like a typical company relying on SEO tricks to drive traffic to their site so they can display ads hates when the SEO algorithm changes.

Good news: I’m already starting to see SEO experts giving advice on how to get cited by AI to drive traffic to your site, and for the first time the advice I’m seeing has more to do with providing quality content that answers the kinds of questions people tend to ask about your business domain.

I recognize the problems AI is bringing to search on both ends. AI generated content is making the already bad signal-to-noise ratio on the internet much worse. And now AI is going to grab the knowledge content of your website, summarize it to users perhaps wrongly with at most a reference link, and the person who invested the time and effort to create the content is cut out. That’s a big problem.

But I think this begs the question of whether search was any good before. It wasn’t. It isn’t. And to a large degree, all of the SEO bullshit is the reason why, although also the fact that every single site has to make money on ads to justify it’s existence is also ruining fucking everything. Journalism is all click-bait. Reviews are all advertising and referral links.

This is a nuanced issue, but it really doesn’t matter whether AI wins or loses because the internet is going to continue to get worse. I miss the days of low-bandwidth forcing efficient website design. No bloated 500kb Javascript frameworks. No ad-sense tracking you everywhere you go. I’ll grant you that the internet is prettier now, but that’s really not going to matter if everything winds up presented by AI anyway.

I’m really hopeful that federation continues to grow and bandwidth and storage costs can allow a simple hobbyist to maintain a site/node for minimal cost while contributing to the greater ecosystem. Smaller communities where reputation actually matters instead of being gamified into upvotes and downvotes as some sort of facsimile of trustworthiness or quality. I think with a more personal internet, AI becomes less of a threat anyway.

I respect what you’re saying, and while I agree with you—as you say yourself, he’s not being replaced by AI like that article states. And that was as far as I was trying to go. It’s not even impossible that he’s a good developer who got fired by an idiot who bought into AI hype, but that’s not my first guess, you know?

That’s all I was saying. I largely agree with your points. I don’t think we are really in opposition here, you’re just coming at it from a different perspective than I contemplated in that comment.

Cheers.

I also have a job in that neighborhood and I could not be replaced by AI. I’m sympathetic to him in the sense that this is a shitty time to be looking for work for a number of reasons, but it seems in the realm of possibility that this guy is a shitty developer who made bank of the fact that for a while companies were desperate for anyone to increase IT headcount, and now finds himself unable to compete with the shitty output of AI.

I’ve 100% worked with developers worse than AI, but not many and if it were up to me they would be retrained into some other career where they can make more of a contribution.

You want to blame it on AI CTS scanning? Yep. Totally believable. AI generated technical questions? Sure.

But because AI is coding circles around you? Bruh…

It’s too dumb to try and trick you. It’s responding to being called out the way people tend to because that’s what it’s emulating. And yeah, that’s not great.

All I can say is AI has wasted my time and saved me time. And in my case, more of the latter than the former.

AI can be useful without being right about everything. But the user has to know enough to push back or just write it themselves when necessary. And in my experience the same is true when pairing with another developer, too.

It’s a tool, not a solution. Though it’s valid to say the folks touting its miracle capabilities are full of shit. It is imperfect, but it’s not worthless. It’s not a con man, it’s just confidently wrong. I’ve worked with/for a lot of people like that.

Most of us have no use for quantum computers. That’s a government/research thing. I have no idea what the next disruptive technology will be. They are working hard on AGI, which has the potential to be genuinely disruptive and world changing, but LLMs are not the path to get there and I have no idea whether they are anywhere close to achieving it.

Of course. It’s an analogy. It is like someone who means well. It generates text from the default perspective, which is white guy with a bunch of effort to make it more diverse with a similar end result. The responses might sound woke but take a closer look and you’ll find the underlying bias.

Has nothing to do with guilt-complex. Why would I feel guilty for being privileged? I feel fortunate, and obliged to remain aware of that.

Treating AI like a “program,” however, is a pretty useless lead in to what you really posted to say.

I think researchers are trying to make AI models more aware, but they are trained on a whole lot of human history, and that is going to be predominantly told from white male perspectives. Which means AI is going to act like that.

Women and people of color, you should probably treat AI like it’s that white guy who means well and thinks he’s woke but lacks the self-awareness to see he is 100% part of the problem. (I say this as a white guy who is 100% part of the problem, just hopefully with more self-awareness.)

Biggest issue I’ve seen with technical analysis like this is that it’s more a measure of market sentiment, not fundamentals. You’re using the crowd as an indicator without any idea of whether the crowd knows anything you don’t or not.

So it’s a little more meaningful than dowsing rods and tarot cards, but only barely. Market sentiment can change on a whim.

I’m not sure I’d wonder any more about those developers than anyone else.

Without getting into TMI I very much enjoy non consent fantasy to the point where I had a CNC relationship with my wife for the first five years. And two things I’ve learned about myself are: I’m not physically capable of even play rape, and that having the power was much more fun and exciting than exercising the power.

So to me it feels perfectly normal to be aroused by fantasy rape but not at all by the manifestation of it. I’m sure it’s not mainstream or anything, and there are a lot of people out there, like Andrew Tate, who are exactly what they say they are.

I think it’s fine to look into it and see which is the case, but I personally wouldn’t expect to find any girls in basements who aren’t there consensually based on the content of their games.

Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that’s just a tiny part of the app.

I say now, but I don’t think I’ve used it at all in the past couple of years.

Buy on the dip!

What it would mean is that someone bought some stock at that price/share.

Spent last month playing only Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky. And Disney+ but I’m assuming they mean game play time.

The worst people live forever. See: Kissinger.

You can look at the stats on how much of the model fits in vram. The lower the percentage the slower it goes although I imagine that’s not the only constraint. Some models probably are faster than others regardless, but I really have not done a lot of experimenting. Too slow on my card to really even compare output quality across models. Once I have 2k tokens in context, even a 7B model is a token every second or more. I have about the slowest card that ollama even says you says use. I think there is one worse card.

ETA: I’m pulling the 14B Abliterated model now for testing. I haven’t had good luck running a model this big before, but I’ll let you know how it goes.