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Rob profile picture
Recently someone said to me;

"You were right about [subject]. I asked [LLM-AI] and it agreed with you."

and holy shit I have never felt so angry and offended by such a short sentence.

I know I was correct, because I sat and thought about it and I'm very good at this whole "programming" lark... and I can't express how little a shit I give that the random plagiarism machine agrees with me...

Fuck me... this is my future isn't it? 😑
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aeva · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqcademc6c0e4tqm5nj9yalatjnj9y20agt5k8fnnwc7l7yklwmlaq9upn4m I really wish the bubble would pop already and for all the AI bullshit to evaporate in an instant with it. I'm not optimistic about it though.
Rob profile picture
When I started making music some years ago now I wouldn't refer to myself as a "musician" or an "artist" - I was just a dude with a computer making sounds. I felt like I hadn't "earned" it, which in retrospect was silly, but such is being human I guess.

Contrast that to now, with people playing mad libs with a computer and unironically calling themselves "a writer".

Of all the people who have imposter syndrome, it seems unfair those who are literally imposters don't suffer from it...
Doug Binks · 25w
This take on LLMs that "Torvalds and the maintainers are acknowledging reality: developers are going to use AI tools to code faster, and trying to ban them is like trying to ban a specific brand of ke...
Rob profile picture
@nprofile1q... I read the news about this with an air of "oh look, another 'LLM AI is evitable so lets give in' policy 'choice'.."

I guess unlike Crypto, NFTs and the 'metaverse' the Bros finally got the messaging right on this one to get everyone to buy in.
Doug Binks · 27w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqahl2l3540dxx4ey82gswhvqx6dve4a68uzfzstk0ghnjekyz744sv6nkpn Both cooling and cosmic radiation are already issues similar satellites such as starli...
Rob profile picture
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Cooling is, yeah, Scott Manley has a video on it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1e80 ) which is pretty informative.

Radiation is also not a huge issue - these things are planned for low earth orbit, so plenty of shielding from the earth's magnetic field. Same domain as the ISS in that regard.

(None of this is me saying its a good idea, if nothing else all those satellites would wreck the night sky for astronomy, more so than is already being done 😞 )
Aras Pranckevičius · 32w
:unity: #unity render pipelines strategy for 2026: https://discussions.unity.com/t/render-pipelines-strategy-for-2026/1710004 -- basically what could have been inferred from activity: - URP is the one...
Rob profile picture
@nprofile1q... I remember, pre-pandemic, when there was a discussion about Sustained Engineering taking ownership of BiRP as part of the sunsetting of it (aka, Ya Boi here being in charge of changes/fixes landing).

Since then I changed roles twice, got yeet'd, took 2 years off, and.. it carries on as before...

[insert Fry from Futurama shocked gif here]
Rob profile picture
On reflection Late Gen-X/Early Millennials have had such a weird experience;
- Born at the right time to age into computers in the home
- learnt how they worked because you had to know things like file systems etc
- Got to experience the internet in its more wild and free state

and now get to watch as the internet locks down, as devices lock down, and the 'home computer' goes away replaced by "Devices", with cost increases due to AI really killing it off.

Such a weird 40/50 years 🤔