“It’s only monarchy if it’s got a Habsburg jaw, otherwise it’s just sparkling tyranny.”

Isn’t a more perfect humanity a Bond villain trope?

This NPR article opens with a banger of a line:

In the past few months, AI models have gone from producing hallucinations to becoming effective at finding security flaws in software, according to developers who maintain widely used cyber infrastructure.

The things still fucking hallucinate, it’s not a feature that’s separable from the model.

Work wants to add that new whiz-bang agentic AI into a scheduling service that I have been tasked with building, but in the dumbest way possible kind of similar to the Jet’s text-a-pizza-order thing that worked like shit. I need to find an entirely new profession, everyone in software now is fucking deranged.

Q: what do you call a tool that works 90% of the time? A: broken

Friend texted me this one. Reader’s Digest of course was AI slop before AI took off.

:surprised-pikachu:

Even the most dysfunctional team would have spent time developing some kind of standard here from my (admittedly limited) experience.

My experience has been vastly different. Prior to LLMs I have seen all sorts of horrors of this sort and others writ large across many codebases. It’s so awesome that LLMs offer the ability to make the same sorts of code but at a much faster speed. In times past it used to take devs years to build up the kind of tech debt that LLMs can give you in days.

That this comes from the Saudi Royal Family is especially rich because of the amount of plain-ol’ sycophancy around Neom.

“I did the AI that people largely hate, but the next guy, HE’S the real AI CEO. Just remember him, not me, the guy who did the stuff.”

Is it going to be a bunch of ArmV8 cores shoved into the same package? Probably going to be a bunch of ArmV8 cores shoved into the same package. You know, for AI.

Chicago always wanted a 9/11 of its own.

“Congratulations guys, we did it. Job well done. You’re all fired.”

I find it very unsatisfactory to sneer at skeets from the above author. It’s just junkfood at this point and not like good junkfood, just like stale off-brand popcorn in a bag that has a picture of a sad clown on it. Why is the clown sad? Because the clown has to constantly look at different variations on the same theme written by people whose brains are melted by LinkedIn.

Man, if only I had enough optimism left to aspire to that level of silliness, as opposed to be sliding further and further in to the maw of computer stupidity.

What the fuck is this, Pets Dot Com, the musical?

AI was going to give us all universal healthcare but we didn’t believe hard enough and now all we have is this.

“Selling your soul to the company store is not just fun, it is also invigorating!”

I was trying to put this into perspective by comparing this to the flow rate of the Des Plaines river. At the high end, 8 million gallons a day is something like 12.4 cubic feet per second constantly. Currently the Des Plaines has a discharge rate of 86-87 cubic feet per second, so a bit above 14% of the Des Plaines per data center.

If only it was a gong show. It’s more like shoveling coal into a dead horse and expecting a locomotive to spring forth