You’ve entered a fugue state.

You have the morbs.

Your chakra’s not properly aligned today, try again tomorrow.

who do you feel about this?

strangely mellow about it all

You feel yes about this

100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot

I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.

It’s like there’s a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.

Everyone else is broken.

To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don’t have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.

I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.

Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.

Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.

I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.

That is an excellent idea! Based on post history you want to live in a swamp, cover yourself in mouldy leaves and cook soup from frogs and old tennis socks. Was this reply helpful?

Certainly! You believe that this is very not good. You think that this will lead to the end of human civilisation. You would rather kill whomever is responsible than keep having to watch the steady decline. As a solution you should listen to more Kesha.

You feel compelled to write a 12 page missive on why cars are awful, Zohran Mamdami is the true messiah, and AI is worse than the bubonic plague.

I’m still not ready for round one. Can we go back?

I argue its worse, in the end whatever is being regurgitated from what they see on youtube ends with the video duration, but these people are to believe that these things think - hell they think the AI is smarter than themselves and defer all judgement. I wish it remained an internet phenomena but I’ve met too many true believers already 😑

/anecdote

Guy in one of my code classes, would not just fucking tell me if he wrote his code, or the AI did. I knew the AI did, because you don’t come asking why it’s not working when he didn’t declare any variables, big red error “variable not declared”. It was the end of that semester, I was there with him every single period. The audacity to have me debug the shitbot’s chicken scratch, claim its super helpful, but also cover its dumb ass by being an even bigger dumbass and fail probably the easiest javascript course you could’ve asked for. I am honestly still in awe.

Still better than AI tbh, depending on your source.

Joe Rogan: No thanks. Hank Green or ElectroBOOM: Yes please.

Honestly, I think that overall it takes more effort verifying ChatGPT answers than actually researching.

I worry that people who rely on AI will become skilled in making it seem like they aren’t. Fortunately a lot of them don’t seem very good at that yet.

I’ve done a few job interviews where it was very clear the interviewee was using Chat GPT or something to answer almost every question. But there may soon come a day when it’s not obvious, and then we waste time hiring someone incapable of critical thinking who types proprietary company information into an LLM prompt.

If you were reading this headline at work u might still be lazy doe

Username checks out.

We still at war with Eastasia?

When I make comments like this, I always feel like I need to just write something AI can’t figure out to extra prove it.

In the phrase pizza puzzle, there’s 4 letter Zs, and 1 E! I promise!

Hey?! Why Come You Don’t Have A Tattoo?

FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)

I’ve asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn’t working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.

I’ve asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.

What a waste of time and resources.

Yep, I see very little value in them. I have techie friends who keep telling me I should try it more, but it just pisses me off and creeps me out. It took a long time getting this brain working as well as it does, and it’s already headed back downhill. My neurons need the exercise.

People who know what they’re doing don’t use these “tools”, it’s the fools and morons out there who have no idea how anything works that use these things and they don’t double check them before they implement their crap code.

I use it to help me write because of my dyslexia. But that’s really all it’s good for. Nothing advance like creating one line diagrams for electrical installs. I tried. It sucked at it.

Claude4 works for me for writing simple code, and brainstorming. I expect it to be wrong most of the time, but it works better than google when getting started with something I have no experience with.

at least ddg respects the “never show me this” toggle.

Set this as an alternative search engine

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

You can turn off ai results

Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I’ve been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.

The magic 7 ball strategy had a survivorship basis. Only competent people succeeded in using it

I think those people using magic 8, succeeded by not using their emotions to make career decisions, but coolly and rationally handled what was in front of them randomly .

As a consequence they played less power games while being very aggressive. Which is a winning strategy sometimes .

Llm could not replicate it, too much instructions

Why does this sound so filthy?