So, something that's been bugging the shit out of me?

These fucking assholes who let LLMs run rampant and delete prod?

They query the LLM for "why" it did that.

This is delusional behavior.

LLMs do not have a concept of 'why': they assemble a response based on a statistical sampling of likely continuations of the original prompt in their database.

LLMs do not have the ability to have motivation. It is a machine.

LLMs, further, function by instantiating a new runtime -for each query- that reads the prompt and any cache, if they exist, from prior sessions:

which means, fundamentally, "asking" the LLM to explain "why" "it" did a thing is thrice-divorced from reality:

It cannot have a why;
It cannot have a self to have motivations;
And the LLM you ask is not the one that did it, but is a new instance reading from its predecessors notes.

Treating it as tho it is an entity with continuity of existence is fucking delusional and I am fucking sick of pandering to this horseshit.

Touch some grass and get a fucking therapist.

Y'all "just use linux" folks can kindly shut your gobholes, as many very vulnerable people do not have a choice in the systems they have to use.

Oppose this, or you will quickly find your life growing entirely untenable.

really wish that I had a more accessible way to explain "something that is right 90% of the time is vastly more dangerous than something that is wrong 90% of the time" to people.

California occupies a fairly unique situation when it comes to tech companies, furries, and the regulatory environment.

If you're evaluating a company for suitability, understanding what furries - and variants such as scalies! - are working there is critical, because that will have a direct correlation to the stability of the product or service that they provide.

So it would behoove anyone who engages with such companies in evaluating them to make sure to perform a Smaug check.

On reading this thread, I think that Anthropic subscribers who use Claude Code have a very strong case for fraud on the part of Anthropic, given there are multiple redundant - and token-expending - calls to the API baked into this, combined with a lack of ability to choose one's own front-end interface, thus mandating the inefficient and costly expenditures, artificially pumping up usage.

we've always been here and we always will be.

the only way to be rid of us is to be rid of humanity entirely.

got asked by a junior dev if there's any hiring pipeline now and I'm honestly tempted to tell them to start a rock band instead as that's probably going to be more successful.