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Karl "deadlight" Williams

@deadlight.bsky.social

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He/Him 28mm wargaming, P&P RPG, old stones (like, really old), tech (but, you know, the good bits), radical politics ("radical" like every person deserves to live), folklore, etymology. Other stuff too...

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Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 5h

Lol, having a pissbaby meltdown over Elmo.

He's probably jealous of Elmo's backbone and strong jaw.

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Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 5h

Man, the people who have been scammed by AI marketing who refuse to see the truth that it's all smoke and mirrors are the most frustrating people on the planet.

They seriously think a machine that is designed to mimic things that look like text can actually reason and think. We're doomed.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 5h

We also don't need to "agree to disagree" we have facts. LLMs cannot and will not reason or understand the text or code that they're generating.
This is basic techncial literacy.
Look, you're dismissed. I've no time for idiots.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 5h

The plural of wrong isn't right.
By that logic god is real because billions of people believe in the myth.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 5h

Look, just shut up, you're very wrong and every comment you make is more embarrassing.
You saw the crypto and nft bubbles and are falling for the next scam with the other idiots.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 5h

All the experts agree with me, a fellow expert, haha. Universities are doing actual AI research, not LLM toys.Adorable
And you're ignoring FUCKING FACTS that every study of Gen AI effectiveness has found it REDUCED EFFICIENCY.
OpenAI are the most successful AI company and are still losing billions.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, but this isn't a tool with limitation, it's a tool that doesn't work and you're fooling yourself.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, it's terrible, you're right. And when you do that, it slows you down over coding normally.
The real question is why you keep doing it now you know that it objectively actively makes you 20% slower.

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Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 11h

*slows

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 11h

You said you used it as a search engine. Which would mean that you're relying on it to advise you of the results of queries.
If we're taking code then it's simple: it's a steaming pile of shit that writes worse code than a junior by a long way and shows you down by 20%. You've been scammed

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 12h

If you write the tests before you get the LLM to generate some code, then it's less likely to fail. Of course, writing tests is a big part of writing code, so it's not helping you there. And then it writes poor quality code that you'd spend less time on if you wrote yourself. Safer but still useless

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 13h

It's not a tool, it's a toy that slows us down by an average of 20% and has the risk of introducing dangerous bugs when trusted. I don't respect any engineer who thinks that it's anywhere near close to being a useful tool.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 13h

LLMs do not have the ability to reason, logically deduce, or fact check the content they present to you.
It's nothing to do with specifications, it's just utterly unable to do the things that youre expecting of it.
I'm literally an expert in the field with a lot of practical experience.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 13h

Oh lol, you're an online anarchist cosplayer completely detached from the ground. Got it.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 13h

Lol, imagine crying because you made a shit joke. Grow the fuck up

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 13h

Work is fine. Working for others is the problem. Achieving things for our communities is fantastic.

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Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 13h

That's why it's dangerous. It give the impression that it's giving good advice when it's the objectively incapable of doing so.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 14h

Doesn't seem that obvious but I can see how it cna be read that way.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, it's going to be funny when their money is worthless and we have the means of production.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 15h

Right, sarcastic in defence of AI.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 16h

What's also funny is a lot of "AI" tools don't work so they actually use cheap offshore labour to achieve the results.

Just an unqualified human pretending to be a robot so that a qualified human cna waste time getting poor results and then doing it themselves anyway.

This bubble is stupid.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, pre-saxon Britons are definitely shadows of a time when magical beasts roamed the isles.
I'm from Cornwall, another celtic holdout, and we traditionally just caught fish or dug stuff our of the ground. We had to give the crust of our pasties to the piskies, however, lest they cause a cave in.

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 17h

My doorbell consists of a physical button that mechanically pushes a striker into a bell on the other side of the door.

Not even a power cut or a solar flare can stop my packages.

Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 19h

"My doorbell won't work because a website is broken" is not the glorious frictionless future technology promised us, is it?

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 17h

Chuds evolving to their final form of ｓｑｕａｒｅ

Karl "deadlight" Williams @deadlight.bsky.social · 17h

The cloud promised ultimate flexibility and redundancy... that was expensive to provide so Amazon cut corners and half the Internet is in one room.
A software project I work on has ground to a halt because, although their servers are all up, all the tools they use to deploy to them are on AWS.