The weird part is, navigating from any loaded tab is often instant, but opening a new tab gets treated like a DDoS attack.

Oopsie.

Prelude.

The proliferation of handles has made doors minor obstacles for medium and large breeds.

And is probably why that panicky retriever we dog-sat broke a toiler paper hook.

Downvoters have absolutely fucking nothing to say, but sure are mad about something they can’t defend.

Fuck copyright.

It’s almost like buying things means you own them.

Not sure whether you’re being sarcastic here

Jesus.

“Name a publicly traded company that generated significant profit as a result of buying llm services from a provider.”

This at least is just a problem of relevance. Utility is not measured in money - especially for open-source non-profits like Zig - and people selling shovels and promises are obviously not the best place to look for success stories in mineral rights.

But I’ve seen several Youtube channels hand-wave complicated software for devices they’ve just built from scratch.

And several copyleft projects are caught in philosophical arguments against permissive rewrites with completely different code, structure, and/or programming language.

And a few ultra-niche projects simply typed “rewrite this in Rust” for an order-of-magnitude speed boost.

The kneejerk insistence that LLMs are never useful is wishful thinking. It’s less defensible than equally glib promises of institutional value, because even some of the people loudly distancing themselves do so because it worked. ‘I didn’t recognize my own codebase!’ Yeah, because you didn’t write it. The chatbot did. It’s not Inception-ing the experience of making it yourself; it’s inventing exactly the Github dead-end you’d like to find.

The linked Asimov story is only dimly related. You’d expect a culture relying on other minds, kept simple, somewhere between Brave New World and HG Wells’s Eloi. But it’s about the method of learning, not capacity or demonstrated ability. Like Bowie: “the fingerprints will prove that you couldn’t pass the test.” Your typical mid-century sci-fi civilization where The Committee has dictated how everything works, and obvious criticisms could be resolved by doing things very slightly differently.

The twist is even less relevant, because it treats originality as some vanishingly rare thing that must be tricked out of people. Hard left turn into YA protagonist syndrome. Even though the main character just got done describing the simplicity of learning incremental improvements.

Meanwhile the reality of LLM programming is, here’s an idiot robot that will do its best for literally anything you ask… and you are expected to spot where it has fucked up. The only way it’s better than letting project leaders run it themselves is if you are putting in the effort to babysit and second-guess the chatbot.

Thinkin’ about LLMs? That’s a paddlin’.

Same reason as before this policy: they care about the project itself.

If you don’t view these tools as the devil, of course you might roll your eyes and say, that’s nice, anyway, here’s an improvement.

A nice low bar, set fairly and in good faith.

They took world-class branding and made it look like Alibaba conversion kits for your Toyota.

Straight up supernormal stimulus.

Eargesplitten loudenboomer, seen here with ergonomic grip.

You’d think assholes demanding ID everywhere would mean adults get treated like adults.

You’d really fucking think.

That’s where it’s being overused the most. No judgement on merits, just kneejerk insistence that anything related is disqualified from redeeming qualities.

All meaning has been stomped from it, as some deeply boring people latched onto it as a haughty dismissal. You know they’re deeply boring because any form of pushback, however gentle or reasoned, sees them double down and smug it up. They get to feel like they’re participating in some grand moral crusade just by parroting a monosyllabic insult until they sound like dogs taking a drink.

There was a brief window where it caught on for specific AI content - the zero-effort spam shoveled toward you without even looking it over. But the self-proclaimed haters spat it at any use of AI, as a one-drop rule. Like an award-winning video game leaving a single temporary texture is indistinguishable from a Facebook post of a little girl hugging her pet tiger with all three arms.

That gleeful overuse has spread beyond any useful distinction. It doesn’t even reliably convey ‘I don’t like it.’ It’s all so Aladeen.

Next week is the 33rd anniversary of this film!

That’s right - they released a Halloween movie in July. That’s why you saw Hocus Pocus on television every damn year. It bombed, and the rights were cheap.