(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)
Anyways, welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Can you trust that figure, though? They’re already in trouble for being deceitful about slop usage, and 0.1% is close enough to zero that it could have literally been zero if anyone cared about minimising anything.
Yeah, it’s definitely an open question if they are being honest for honesty’s sake or just trying to get ahead of people realising that the game is slop-infested in obvious ways.
Assuming the first, the number is definitely based on vibes, but 0.1% of say ten million lines of code is still a lot of code, and the way LLMs have been shoved into every nook and cranny of the major IDEs, demanding proof of zero tokens spent during development puts enterprise devs in a weird spot, especially with stack overflow all but defunct and the various tool vendors increasingly assuming you’ll be using them in LLM-first dev scenarios and skimping on providing in-depth guidelines, or slopping them out.
It sucks.