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New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by sillysaurusx »

jeffbarr wrote: post #80
jcims wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's hilarious. I think Jeff has an account here. Just tried with GPT-J posted here yesterday(?) Prompt in italics as well. Seems like it wants to tweak the name: Introducing AWS Infinidash board What is AWS Infinidashboard? AWS Infinidashboard is the end-to-end tool that automates dashboards generation for your AWS infrastructure. How does it work? 1. Dashboard Model Definition To make dashboards flexible and scal…

> That's hilarious. I think Jeff has an account here. I am 100% sure that I did not write that, and I am 100% sure that this comes across as far too Jeff-like for comfort!

Hahaha. I bet it was a shock to see your name pop up in GPT-3.

That feeling when you don't know whether you're famous enough that you were included in the training set and successfully influenced the bot, or the bot simply used a pretty common American name.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by forty »

TheCoelacanth wrote: post #72
forty wrote: post #55

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I'm sure people who are not aware will just search for it in their favorite search engine and find out it's a joke. What it might filter out are people who don't find this joke funny, and might decide not to apply (and on the countrary it will catch the attention of people finding this funny and concluding Signal must be a cool place to work). Getting devs attention on a job offer is hard these days, so I guess spici…

I, for one, wouldn't bother searching for a technology that I've never heard of if it were listed as a requirement for a job posting. I would just move on to the next posting. There are too many jobs that I am qualified for to bother taking time for a deep dive on a job that I'm not qualified for.

To be honest I haven't ever actually looked for a job, but if I happened to read that annonce, I would absolutely check out wtf is that tech that is a requirement to work at signal, out of pure curiosity.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by forty »

chrisseaton wrote: post #75
forty wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure people who are not aware will just search for it in their favorite search engine and find out it's a joke. What it might filter out are people who don't find this joke funny, and might decide not to apply (and on the countrary it will catch the attention of people finding this funny and concluding Signal must be a cool place to work). Getting devs attention on a job offer is hard these days, so I guess spici…

> I'm sure people who are not aware will just search for it in their favorite search engine and find out it's a joke. No they'll find more and more examples of the joke, and so keep thinking it's real, but never any explanation.

I tried searching it, the original tweet is pretty high in the results. And the other results really don't try to hide to hard it's a joke :)

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by forty »

forty wrote: post #83
chrisseaton wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm sure people who are not aware will just search for it in their favorite search engine and find out it's a joke. No they'll find more and more examples of the joke, and so keep thinking it's real, but never any explanation.

I tried searching it, the original tweet is pretty high in the results. And the other results really don't try to hide to hard it's a joke :)

Also it probably depends whether you have actually used some aws services. I have searched quite a lot of aws services before, and not finding the product page straight away is a pretty good hint.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by seidoger »

rcarmo wrote: post #16

I tracked most of it as it was happening, and TBH the number of fairly well known people who played along was just staggering. Although there is some flak being taken about making this "too real", I have an impression that many people played along because it was, in fact, very symptomatic of the hype-driven approach to tech the industry has these days. So it wasn't just about recruiting, and resumé keyword stuffing (…

At this point it's like if AWS services are spread so thin so they can come up with new names (and sub-sub names, see: SageMaker).

i.e. https://twitter.com/wrongservices

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by styfle »

I learned the power of a fake tweet last month[1].

Some backstory: I found that Twitter’s use of emoji is not immediately recognizable because they render their own image rather than relying on the native implementation. So I tweeted what appeared to be Twitter hash flags for hex colors by using square emoji colors. I went to bed after it got 1 or 2 likes. And in the morning I found that hundreds of people thought it was real.

[1] https://twitter.com/styfle/status/1401002863787192322?s=20

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by jcims »

colanderman wrote: post #78
jcims wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's hilarious. I think Jeff has an account here. Just tried with GPT-J posted here yesterday(?) Prompt in italics as well. Seems like it wants to tweak the name: Introducing AWS Infinidash board What is AWS Infinidashboard? AWS Infinidashboard is the end-to-end tool that automates dashboards generation for your AWS infrastructure. How does it work? 1. Dashboard Model Definition To make dashboards flexible and scal…

Aha nice; good advert for GPT-J. Actually I included a newline in the prompt; I'll edit to make that clear.

That came across in your original post, I tried to do the same but GPT-J doesn't like whitespace at the end.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by teameat »

jcims wrote: post #77
colanderman wrote: post #73

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You've inspired me... here is what GPT-3 has to say about Infinidash (prompt (including first newline) in italics, first take): Introducing AWS Infinidash InfiniDASH is a container-based, serverless, infinitely scalable, high-performance, low latency event stream processing platform built on top of AWS Lambda, Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB. Applications built with InfiniDASH can handle millions of events per second wi…

That's hilarious. I think Jeff has an account here. Just tried with GPT-J posted here yesterday(?) Prompt in italics as well. Seems like it wants to tweak the name: Introducing AWS Infinidash board What is AWS Infinidashboard? AWS Infinidashboard is the end-to-end tool that automates dashboards generation for your AWS infrastructure. How does it work? 1. Dashboard Model Definition To make dashboards flexible and scal…

You know, I cannot tell you how many inventions I have been involved with that started out as a few of us just joking around. I bet there is a cool theory or name for this, but sometimes, humor has a way of sort of shaking loose peoples imaginations.

hahaha, you never know :)

It would be hilarious if you guys end up with something cool from it. Shug.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by lelanthran »

janekm wrote: post #64
lelanthran wrote: post #54

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> The path of discovery of new software development paradigms is far from linear but over the long term the improvements are impressive and ongoing. One of my favorite recent examples is declarative (Flutter, SwiftUI) vs imperative UI. The gains to efficiency and clarity are significant. Wasn't Delphi declarative enough?

The critical aspect of these declarative frameworks to me (similar to React) is that they automatically update the presentation of the UI based on changes to the state of the application. From what I recall Delphi did not do this for the most part (aside from database bindings)? Though Delphi is certainly a great example of the circuitous route that good ideas take.

> The critical aspect of these declarative frameworks to me (similar to React) is that they automatically update the presentation of the UI based on changes to the state of the application. From what I recall Delphi did not do this for the most part (aside from database bindings)?

Not for all components, no. For many components it did IIRC.

What it did allow was designing the UI in a drag-n-drop editor, and easily managing the state of the visual components by double-clicking on the component and adding a snippet of code.

The UI and the UI/code interactions were effectively "declared" in this manner.

> Though Delphi is certainly a great example of the circuitous route that good ideas take.

Hopefully things advance so much in the future that you will one day be saying the same thing about React, Flutter, etc :-)

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Post by dadjoker »

This is absolutely hysterical. For me, the best parts are the song and the explainer video that uses cats and a stuffed shark. I've been reading through all of the new ecosystem and all the tweets about certifications and experience required for job positions and laughing my rear off.
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