FlorianSimon

Damn, this thing slaps

There are multiple reasons:

• for plenty of use cases where it's supposed to help, it just plain doesn't work (software engineering being my main use case, but it does not help find obscure songs/games either).
• it's fundamentally unsafe, which matters in a lot of cases where the evangelists want to put AI into.
• the resource usage to train models is crazy. To the point of delaying Google's carbon neutrality plans for instance. It's also expected to put a significant toll on energy grids worldwide for the years to come, which is the last thing we need on a burning planet.
• it's being pushed by evil actors like big tech billionaires, who aren't trusted to do the right things with the tech.
• it's already proven harmful (cf Air Canada's chatbot, or the idiots on today's other HN LLM subject saying they use it for medical advice or electric work among many examples)
• it's overhyped, much like crypto. Way too many promises, and it does not deliver.

My sentiment on the reliability is shared in my team, among people that used it a bit more: it's a garbage machine.

I do fear it might train a generation of software professionals that don't know how to code, which is going to harm them (unemployable) or the people they serve, but I might be overreacting due to the fact that the only a person I knew who claimed to use LLMs professionally was a hack who's using LLMs as a palliative for general lack of skills and low output. Come to think of it, this is precisely the kind of people that should be cautious around LLMs, because they can't review the LLM's output accurately for dangerous hallucinations.

I do ask ChatGPT questions sometimes, but honestly pretty rarely. I use it as a complement to regular search, and nothing more, because it can't get the basics right most of the time.

She's a top NSA spy. Learnt the ropes while shooting the Barbie movie, which was actually a front for a vast police operation to capture the hobbits. Apparently, they live in Barbieland.

not for long

Python has other stupid problems related to pip. As much as stupid micro-dependencies suck in Javascript, they're not the shitshow managing dependencies in Python is. It's an inefficiency that never actually caused me noticeable issues in my former webdev life.

And let's not talk about C++... People reinvent all sorts of wheels all the time because sharing anything is so annoying.

I think I've made my case here, everything I could respond to that is visible in the exchange we've had. Good night!

The facts are there: the consumption of animal products the way it is done across the vast majority of the planet is not something you can rationalize: it's bad for the consumers, bad for the environnement and, most of all, bad for the animals that are being slaughtered on a massive scale.

Don't fool yourself: I'm not talking about the act of ingesting the flesh of dead animals, which could theoretically be done in a way that doesn't have such a strong negative impact on everyone involved. I'm talking about what's happening in the real world, which is very far from idealized "what if" theories that is pretty unattainable, and an artificial debate construction carnivores use in debates with vegans.

You and I consume animal products. The difference between the two of us is I find the moral objections to the consumption of dog meat to be rationally indefensible, and pretty ridiculous.

Do consume animal products if you like. I'm not a vegan, and I would be hypocritical to judge you based on that. Whatever you do though, just don't make the mistake of assuming your moral system is universal because it's pretty illogical.

In short, get off that high horse.

The question "would you eat dog meat?" and your outrage at the question, while a gotcha, is a very solid way to point out your inconsistency. It's by no means dishonest because it outlines your inconsistency without false pretense. You're being asked a direct question, and you got got.

You don't get a free get-out-of-jail card because you don't like how this rhetorical device proved your position weak.

No it's not. It being a "gotcha" does not mean it's wrong. In fact, it is still right, you're just wrong and think the person you reply to is wrong because they disagree with you.

On top of being super bloated, Intellij's Rider is far from "just working" in my experience. Not only is it super slow to boot, but it also changes asmdefs in my Unity project unprompted, in a way that prevents my project from working (creates cyclic dependencies). The debugger also sometimes doesn't trigger breakpoints 😵‍💫

I absolutely despise it, viscerally.

I've been working as a professional programmer for many years and have never ever seen this kind of evaluation, not even once. I'm pretty convinced it's an exception rather than a rule. And I'd add that it's probably a very rare exception.