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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

404media posted an article absolutely dunking on the idea of pivoting to AI, as one does:

media executives still see AI as a business opportunity and a shiny object that they can tell investors and their staffs that they are very bullish on. They have to say this, I guess, because everything else they have tried hasn’t worked

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

wait til you find out what the ml does stand for, it’s a real trip (and it sure as fuck ain’t Mali)

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

holy fuck please learn when to shut the fuck up

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

programmers learned what N means in statistics and immediately realized that “this N is too small” is a cool shortcut to sounding smart without reading the study, its goals, or its conclusions. and you can use it every time N is smaller than the human population on earth!

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

oh fuck off

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

this particular abyss just fucking hurts to gaze into

‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the reason why we’re calling AI a bubble isn’t because we think the people illegally running gas generators to power their datacenters have suddenly grown a conscience

we’re calling it a bubble because just like with NFTs, there’s no use case for LLMs or generative AI that stands up to even mild scrutiny, but the people funneling money into this crap don’t seem to have noticed yet

Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

what the numbers show is that nobody gives a shit. nobody’s paying for LLMs and nobody’s running the models locally either, because none of it has a use case. masturbating in public about how invested you are in your special local model changes none of this.

Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

case in point: you jacked off all night over your local model and still got a disappointing result

Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

no, you fuckers wandered into an anti-AI community and started jacking off about local models

Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

no fucking thanks

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Google wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directly (meow.social)
 

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won’t anyone think of corporate hacker culture (news.ycombinator.com)
 

hey let’s see what the people who killed and buried hacker culture think should go in the jargon file!

If the spirit of the original Jargon file was to be a living document, alas, it failed to keep with the times.

Hackers at large have moved away from Lisp despite Paul Graham and other evangelists […]

Hackers also have moved away from academia at large, and 9-5 jobs at tech behemoths are more natural habitats for them, which also shaped the lingo. I mean, there’s a whole layer of slang usually pertinent to outsourcing agencies and to cubicle farms.

I can’t wait for the corporate-approved jargon file, with any hint of anti-capitalism replaced with fun words and quotes from billionaires to share as the soul leaves my body

So in order for the document to evolve, we need a system to determine consensus. Everyone who cares runs a program on their computer that joins the network and registers their intent. With each proposed change, a query goes out to the network, and it's up to everyone on the network to say yea or nay to the proposal. With enough "yea"s, the document is updated.

...this is starting to sound like a blockchain, isn't it.

for the absolute sake of fuck. coming soon: HackerDAO! collect 10xer tokens and finally prove to the junior devs why corporate gives you so many points to crunch on! vote on fun new jargon, but only if it’s crypto-related! surely you’re hacker enough to be on the pump side of this pump and dump!

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