I was just posting elsewhere that I could probably settle for street sweeping.

Thirty years creative work experience, eight years academic — fuck it. If people want “AI” generated bullshit, I’m not bothered putting anymore original work out there.

Well, there goes my academic career.

Yeah, I also put more faith in those 200 work hours than in the original, generated code which the guy completely rewrote before submission.

consulting an LLM like a book

Saw a news item the other day, reporting that a significant number of university students now use “AI” bots instead of course literature. One student replied, “Nah, I opened a book like once. Anyway, the literature can be just as flawed as AI because there’s new research being made all the time”…

There is a significant overestimation of the factuality of “AI” responses at play there. And a lack of understanding of the entire chain of fact checking, verification, and review that goes into making a book, particularly for education.

I know that is slightly OT, but I think the comparison is fair.

It’s on my mobile keyboard as an alt option for the hyphen. And yes, I use keyboard shortcuts on my computer. Worked as a layouter for print in years. You learn to appreciate a good em dash.

being competent at writing now makes me get accusations of using [“AI”]

Long time em dash user over here, feeling your pain 😞

Big caveat there that “AI” still makes stuff up out of the blue, despite being ostensibly trained on “all of human knowledge”. And this guy seems to have used its generated code accordingly to better apply his PHP skills to C++.

You can probably tell I disagree strongly with “AI” being called “just a tool” 😛

I understand the scepticism, it’s easy to be wary of assisted coding as a gut reaction these days. However, the programmer replied to his own merge request:

I put roughly 200 hours into this (largely due to not being familiar with the codebase and technologies involved beforehand)

…and I find it hard to believe a vibe coder would bother prompting his magic eightball for that long? Maybe that’s my personal prejudice against that particular set of (often wannabe) programmers showing.

There’s also an “AI” disclosure in the original merge request that says:

• None of the submitted code is AI generated. I wrote all of it myself (largely by copying existing code).

• I used OpenAI Codex in the following ways:

  • I used it to generate a quick prototype to give me an idea of where to start. The prototype was MUCH more limited and I rewrote it from scratch (i.e. none of the code submitted here is from there).
  • I used it to help me with debugging/understanding some of the stuff new to me (e.g. how does a value get to QML, wayland protocols, understanding crashes, …).
  • I used it to review the code before submitting it (in addition to manually reviewing it myself). It caught a few minor issues.
  • I used it to write a “touchpad simulator” patch that I used for testing touchpad gestures (not submitted).

YMMV on what side of vibe coding that usage falls.

Well, thank Space Abraham Lincoln and the Hand of Apollo they aren’t going to go forward with the SNW timeline. They haven’t done anything interesting with the Pike crew, can’t see how they’ll fare better with mysteriously fit Kirk in the chair.

I will miss the SFA seasons that will never happen, though, but look forward to the second season. There was so much to build on from the first one, but instead those gorgeous sets are demolished.

If you want to do it, just go ahead. It’s literally how fan fiction works. Fandom communities aren’t clearance offices that can deny or grant you a license to write what you want 👍

User contributed ratings are a popularity contest, not a democracy, that’s why. And those get wildly inflated by fans who seem to rate their own brand loyalty rather than what they actually watched 🤷

Your experience and enjoyment of a show or episode shouldn’t depend on (or be lessened by) a biased consensus stat on a website somewhere.

Odo was a lover, not a fighter. Just check out those bedroom eyes!

Crime 101 author Don Wislow hit back at Weir on X, writing, “Congrats on the success of Project Hail Mary and The Martian. I’m a real fan. But when you have your moment don’t use it to crap on other writers’ work. For the record, Alex Kurtzman is a visionary writer, creator, producer and you owe him an apology… writer to writer.”

Ugh. I didn’t watch The Martian because of Matt Damon and his face, but I’m going to continue not watching it because of Weir.

Is it okay, in the context and company of a Trek community, and on the sole basis of that quote, to say that he sounds like a bit of a petty entitled prick?

I’ve never read or watched any of his stuff that I know of, but come on. Somebody rejected a pitch you did, so now you’re going to gloat over the franchise’s misfortune the second you have a mic stuffed in your face?

The second season has finished shooting, yes. And IIRC the cancellation announcement says the show will end after s2. But if Paramount want to really dig their heels in on hurting its audience, they could still stop post-production and write off the season like Warner did with that Batwoman show…

It’s not that you’re “all” wrong, it’s that you insist nobody else is right to like something you decided you didn’t without watching it.

There were people who followed the show and liked it. The number of signers to the petition vastly outnumber the downvotes to my posts sharing it here. You can deal with that gracefully, or continue as you started 🤷

You could be right. But then, why can’t we have both?

Same. But it’s tucked away at the end.

I saw the news from Brian Tatosky’s mastodon account, and my immediate reaction was “time for another letter writing campaign?”.

Well, I’ll be damned. The hate campaigners seem to have won, despite solid signs that the show was actually doing quite well with the target group — internationally, if less so in the US?

This is very sad news, the show seemed to go from strength to strength in its first season.