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Is there a general name and framing we could apply to these “AI” that is equally as accurate but sheds all of the human biases associated with the terms? Like… it’s just a really, really, really good autocomplete and sometimes I find thinking of it that way cleans up my whole mental model for its use.
I like something related to "interns" (artificial interns?) because it keeps the implication that you still always have to double-check, review and verify the work they did.
This feels like the beginning of a wonderful friendship between me and the LLMS. I work as a fractional CTO. One of the things that frustrate me is when my clients have various idiosyncratic naming conventions on things, eg there’s a ”dev” and a ”prod” environment on AWS, but then there’s a ”test” and ”production” environment in Expo. It just needlessly consumes brain cycles, especially when you’re working with multi…
Naming things doesn’t get easier just because you bring an LLM to do it based on an incoherent stochastic process.
Have you asked why those environments have not been renamed to align? As a former CTO I’d see it immediately as a signal of poor communication, poor standards adoption, or both. It’s this low hanging stuff that you can fix relatively easily where you’re actually using that work to make the culture better and make people care more.
Don’t outsource things you should care about a lot. Naming things is something you shouldn’t be hand waving away to a model.
Maybe it's spite-driven development, but I'd love to hear about someone who, upon learning that LLMs are suggesting endpoints in their API that don't exist, implements them specifically to respond with a status code[0] of "421: Misdirected Request". Or, for something less snarky and more in keeping with the actual intent of the code, "501: Not Implemented". If the potentially-implied "but it might be, later" of 501 i…
I humbly request, if you are going to do this, please, please...use the 418 response. It deserves wider adoption :-)
Please do not use it for anything other than its specified purpose, even if it is a joke.
> Like it or not, we are already serving the machines. The machines don’t give a shit, it’s the lawyers and bureaucrats you’re serving :) Better or worse?
The bureaucratic and legal apparatus you invoke are themselves caught up in this regime. Their procedures, paperwork, and legitimacy rely on referents—the "models" and "simulacra" of governance, law, and knowledge—that no longer point back to any fundamental, stable reality. What you serve, in effect, is the system of signification itself: simulation as reality, or—per Baudrillard—hyperreality, where "all distinctions between the real and the fictional, between a copy and the original, disappear".
"The spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people, mediated by images." (Debord) Our social relations, governance, and even dissent become performances staged for the world's endless mediated feedback loop.
In this age, according to Heidegger, "everything becomes a 'picture', a 'set-up' for calculation, representation, and control." The machine is not just a device or a bureaucratic protocol—it is the mode of disclosure through which the world appears, and your sense of selfhood and agency are increasingly products (and objects) within this technological enframing.
Yada, yada, yada; the Matrix is real.
ie, you don't know the half of it, compadre.
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I humbly request, if you are going to do this, please, please...use the 418 response. It deserves wider adoption :-)
Bit of a pet peeve: 418 is clearly defined as "I am a teapot", not "whatever I want it to mean". Please do not use it for anything other than its specified purpose, even if it is a joke.
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I humbly request, if you are going to do this, please, please...use the 418 response. It deserves wider adoption :-)
Bit of a pet peeve: 418 is clearly defined as "I am a teapot", not "whatever I want it to mean". Please do not use it for anything other than its specified purpose, even if it is a joke.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bit of a pet peeve: 418 is clearly defined as "I am a teapot", not "whatever I want it to mean". Please do not use it for anything other than its specified purpose, even if it is a joke.
Is one being a little precious about one being a teapot!?
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Is one being a little precious about one being a teapot!?
Are you a teapot? If you were, maybe you'd be precious about people falsely claiming to be one too!