Forget Norman Reedus. Forget Keanu Reeves. Put Ma Dong-seok in a video game and you can damn well charge me $100 for it.
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Forget Norman Reedus. Forget Keanu Reeves. Put Ma Dong-seok in a video game and you can damn well charge me $100 for it.
I haven't been into the Dragon series but dude come on, anything with a Ma Dong-seok performance would have been an instant buy for me. What the hell.
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This is an extremely fair point, SO/SE were terrible. But they also weren't the only place to find Q&A. There was a time when almost every language and major library or framework had an active dedicated forum and/or IRC. I miss those days. LLMs bring some of that back, but only some...
Short version: Applied wisely, LLMs definitely make programmers more productive. It's nice to get some relevant docs shown to me way faster than searching+scrolling. But no, they aren't replacing developers. Definitely not as they are now, but still not even if they were as good as the zealots say.
And dev team size has never been decided by throughput. You don't lay off devs cause they got better tools. Your competitor has the same tools too, so if you do layoffs and they don't, they'll outpace you. Dev team size has always been decided by 1. budget, 2. limits of communication/coordination.
The thing is, even if LLMs make developers 10x as productive (doubtful), you still need developers involved who are competent to order the LLMs around without e.g. introducing egregious security vulnerabilities. It'll lower the barriers to entry to the field...just like a lot of other things did too
I am an LLM-using programmer. IMO LLMs are the greatest step forward in fast information retrieval since the original Google search index. I use them a lot for things where I used to search and scroll through docs.
They're ok at writing code sometimes. Most of the time it's not worth bothering.
pixel art in four panels depicting how to draw a sphere. Step 1 reads "draw a circle" and has a basic line circle. Step 2 reads "add basic shading" and has four shades of flat color including a couple teal highlights toward the upper left and darker blue-green shadow colors. Step 3 reads "add highlights and shadows. Blend colors" and the teal-blue sphere introduces two more highlight colors and two more shadow colors, which are now blended with excessive dithering. There is also slight reflected light on the lower right edge. Step 4 reads "make sphere angery" and the sphere now has a cartoonish frowning angry face in the highlight area. On the lower right of the image is a bar showing the eight colors in the palette.
how to draw a pixel sphere in just four steps
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fuck despair. fuck pity. fuck bluesky. fuck public proclamations of how bad you want to die. what does 5k follows get you? a few platitudes. some abrasive asshole telling you to log off. maybe they consider it the realest thing they can give you.
find real people. get real help.
stay angry.
Has science gone too far
I think you're in Canada, I have no clue which part. Maybe one of these is relevant to you. If not, wherever you are, there's certainly something else similar.
if you're already doing all that shit, then good. keep it up. you'll make it through this shit. sorry I crashed your wanting to die since 11 party.
we're all fighting, dealing with our own shit. but there are support organizations that exist to connect help with people who need it. fucking churches even. if you're not sure where the next meal is coming from, go to them. they're the ones who'll give you more than words on a screen.
so, speaking as a fucking psycho:
you need a hit of dopamine or else you aren't going to take care of your damn self, eh? you get your dopamine when you sort all this shit out and you keep on living. watch a sunrise and relish the destruction of your enemies. social media platitudes don't mean shit
I have followed this with increasingly assertive demands that you do so, instead of dying. clearly not because I give a shit, but because I am a fucking psycho.
we did not get to this place until after you responded with a much milder suggestion of doing the thing you apparently did a week ago with "I'd rather die".
I've been in this stupid club longer than you have. I know from first-hand fucking experience that what you need isn't pity. I know the part of you that wants to wallow in it so badly can do nothing but hold you back. don't let the shits who make life hard for us win. spit in their face. live.
such as talking to a fucking lawyer and figuring out what your options really are. I'm guessing you prob need a bankruptcy lawyer.
lots of lawyers give free consultations. you can probably get even better than just consultation for free, too, if you ask a queer activism or support group for help.
but fuck you, you don't get my pity. I'm not going to flyby post pleasant sounding bullshit like the others who responded. you've been fighting for 20 years? that ain't shit. join the stupid god damn club.
log off. stay on your feet. take this energy and put it into things that might help.
10 days ago you asked for help. yesterday you solicited pity by posting about wanting to die. without even the pretext of asking for help - because 10 days ago looks a lot to me like asking for pity too. you damn well know that there's fuck all that any of us online can do about this.
don't just lie down and wait for life to steamroll you. do something. put up a fucking fight.
I mean yeah that is one of the options on the table here. though you don't sound to me like someone who actually wants that.
that sad part of you that wants to just winge about how shit things are on social media is not healthy. quit feeding it. go do something that might actually help.
ML folks have known for a long time that this is why you get permission to use your training data. There is no ambiguity about what is lawful or ethical here. The only issue is whether OpenAI et al are too big and too wealthy to be held to account for obviously illegal acts.
Generative language models are a kind of lossy compression and retrieval of text. They turn out to be very useful for a lot of other things, but that is fundamentally what happens when you train a generative model: You train it to reproduce its training text via autocomplete.
talk to a bankruptcy lawyer or someone who can actually help you. us social media randos can't do shit
