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  • Pardon my hopium, I do hope it’s not misplaced -

    Given that it was a blackmail operataion among other things, and it would be mutually assured destruction if any holder of the documents tried to redact themselves and expose others. There must be some level of proliferation of at least partial copies of beyond incriminating evidence on a larger swath of people in current power that we could possibly know now.

    They wouldn’t be above using it in party infighting, but there’s no “faction” within the republican party with enough institutional power to get away with the backblow if they were to try to excise certain members. Which does mean there’s still a clock on this, but the fact that they haven’t just released with Bill and Hilary as the only two on the flight logs and dropped it, leads me to believe that this is the stalemate they’re collectively in.




  • No, I’ve done my actual work while people convinced they have “good prompts” weighed my whole team down (and promptly got laid off). We’ve burnt enough openai token and probed models on our own hardware to assertain their utility in my field. Manual automation with simple systems and hard logic is what the industry has ran on, and certainly will continue to.

    Explain to what makes a prompt good. As long as you’re using any provided model and not using sandbox you’re stuck to their initiating prompt. Change that, and you still have their parameters. Run an OS model with your own parameter tunings, you still are limited by your tempterature. What is a good temperature to use for rigid logic that doesn’t result in unexpected behavior but can adapt to user input well enough? These are questions every AI corp is dealing with.

    For context, all we were trying to do was implement some copilot/gpt shit onto our PMS to handle customer queries, data entry, scheduling information and notifications, and some other opened ended suggestions. C suite was giddy, IT not so much, but my team was to keep an open mind and see what we could achieve… so we evaluated it, as of about 6 months ago or so is when finally Cs stopped bugging since they had bigger fires to put out, and we had worked out a powerautomate routine (without the help of copilot… its unfunnily useless even though it’s implemented right into PA), making essentially all the effort put into working the AI from a LLM to an “agentic model” completrly mute, despite the tools the company bought into and everything.

    I’m guessing you belong in the category who hasn’t actually worked at a facility which part of your job is to deploy things like AI, but like to have an affirmative stance anyway.


  • But it seems that someone who is proficient in writing ultimately doesn’t benefit in a matter of time or effort, as both are still taken in correcting the output. And if you’re so curious, there’s been a number of studies on this exact phenomena already.

    The problem, truly, is cognitive debt and the overall expansion of people lending themselves to the dunning kruger effect in the name of trusting and living vicariously through their AI model of choice.

    My last employer was pushing hard for LLMs in a field they dont do shit for, one of the project managers was convinced by his AI of choice (gemini) to actually propose replacing himself with another AI tool. IT wasnt having it because it would screen read potentially sensitive info. He was laid off with a sheriff escort not 2 months later. Now is on linkedin posting some truly schizophrenic shit, otherwise having been normal ish








  • In other news, copilot has entered outlook, and is wholely more useless than I could’ve ever imagined

    It cannot even parse emails other than the one you have open. It cannot search email topics for relavent information. Even specifying how many digits the job number Im looking for, it just spits the email I currently have open.

    Same week my company announces our own* AI and several training courses to pair. Someone please tell me how this isn’t simply an extraordinary waste of time??