@Cmastication plot twist the source it gets its fail info from here https://uwalumni.com/news/presidential-badgers/ has the first listing of John Adams as top with 24 degrees and he just got cut out of the answer. It can’t even do the wrong stuff right ! 🤪
I asked ChatGPT another #AI BS engine to calculate Google’s BS engine’s failure cost and it came up with about $10.4 billion. Is that accurate who knows? Hilarious ? 💯
Cost calc below from ChatGPT
“Total Estimated Financial Impact:
• Ad Revenue Loss: $2 billion
• Increased Operational Costs: $300 million
• Legal and Regulatory Costs: $600 million
• Brand Damage: $7.5 billion
Total Estimated Loss: $2 billion + $300 million + $600 million + $7.5 billion = $10.4 billion”
These fake William Morris prints for sale on Etsy are such an aggressive attack on historical reality. Not content with mutating his work to better fit a 21st century market, they come with fictitious provenance as well. https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery
@overholt I think this would be an interesting story for @404mediaco to dig into. I’d make a sad prediction that there is a rapidly expanding amount of this kind of thing across many types of objects on Etsy.
Unless you have experience teaching or training a variety of web tech (HTML, JS, CSS, SVG, etc), you likely don't fully understand their relative learning difficulty
Basing your assessment of which is harder on your attempts to teach yourself is esp unreliable
It's hard for you to know if a tech is hard or if you were just unlucky in stumbling into a bad entry point. Getting into something with the wrong mental model means you have to first unlearn a bunch of crap before you can actually learn
@baldur I’ve taught web dev at uni level for > 25yrs and I don’t know where to start here. This thread just hits me to my core. I’ll say a big challenge is pre existing beliefs, learner mindset, and frankly impatience. The influence of hustle style Web pundits has been a big challenge but now LLM ease is pure gas poured on a platform basics learning failures. Amazing passionate student bright spots always exist and that keeps me very motivated, but it is much harder now than ever.
@atomicpoet same idea as why playing a Atari 2600 or original NES works better on a CRT. Interestingly that is the only way you can play Duck Hunt so you simply can’t even experience that game if you insist on modern. 😎
@atomicpoet are you by chance in Richmond having an amazing 10 course Cantonese meal. It sure looks that way and I am jealous my friend. My version via my wife is in Rowland Heights LA which while good has nothing on BC. We visited a summer back and it was second only to Hong Kong. Enjoy every bite!
Last year I told my team we have to get off #Slack because this #AI train wreck would likely happen and I wasn’t ok with info leakage like that of our private and customer chat. Sadly as we are finding out it happened. We had picked #Mattermost and found it was fine as a replacement but the migration has been a slow effort. At least now it will accelerate.
@StOnSoftware yep unfortunately that’s quite true but not a reason to keep with them going forward I’ll dub staying the sunk privacy fallacy 🤪 anyway Mattermost is good enough. We’d used Hipchat before Slack and MS Communicator before Hipchat so this is just another move for a long running firm.
A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week. As if the web will turn into The Well, or something. But I am seeing the fediverse, standards-based web builders like Eleventy, and open newsletter platforms like Ghost and Buttondown (that both support the web), and I just don’t agree that the web is old-fashioned. Quite the opposite, it’s only just getting started (again)!
@jasongorman were the videos like “Hey guys! Today I am gonna tell you how you too can get certified in just one day and land your six figure dream job leading teams of rockstar ninja devs building world changing hyper scale AI powered software for the block chained powered metaverse. But first remember to like and subscribe so I can put out more killer content for y’all and turbo charge your tech leadership!”
those devs and tech “influencers” who pioneered the technical work of putting “AI” shit in everything everywhere, and are—for the most part—the assholes who enabled our brave new “AI” world by actually figuring out how to make it run, are also going to be the people who get credit for criticising it after the bubble pops, aren’t they?
Everybody will latch onto their vague concerns and ignore the fact that they literally implemented the shit that got smeared everywhere, aren’t they?
@film_girl well this would totally fit with the automations being Playwright scripts doing some sort of budget zapier like actions. It’s “quality” all the way down!
How many companies adopted MongoDB because “it’s the future!” and are now stuck with it until insolvency or the heat-death of the universe, whichever comes first?
Be careful about making technical decisions based on bubble logic
@brad_frost I think it is part of my client trigger phase “Well why can't you just…<insert ridiculous ask way out of scope or with massive complexity>?”
I probably start having facial twitches esp if the thing is some vague statement about making something “pop" or "work better" or ... esp if coupled with “I'm not sure but I'll know it when I see it” as a response to any questions posed.
TL;DR - that post needed a CW on it for some of us :-)