I did see a job post for a role that was just reviewing AI code. This is all terrible

Interesting. Thanks for the link. I realize I didn’t really define “smart”, so I’m not sure education is a good proxy for it, but this does make my hypothesis look more doubtful

To an extent. but think about how like some people are super eager to get in on the latest in joke and drive it into the ground. You see it on forums sometimes where someone will come up with a bit, and then some people just want to keep repeating it forever. They’re the kind of person who relentlessly said “I’m on a boat” in 2010.

Hypothesis: Stupider people with weaker senses of self are more likely to use chatgpt. That kind of person is also more likely to adopt the language of others. There are many such people.

Thus, the language used on average changes.

I expect smarter people with stronger identities won’t have much change.

Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.

I’d rather just text my friends

I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn’t even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It’s kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like “drinking”

That came up on some searches. Doesn’t seem to have a live disk option, though? Maybe I failed my investigation roll though

I should switch this new desktop back to linux. Need to figure out what’s the best distribution. Used mint on the old desktop, but on this one for some reason hdmi, ethernet, and wifi didn’t work out of the box and I gave up after a couple hours.

edit: It’d be used for gaming and also some software development (mostly python and js, and docker)

Code reviews are important. Unfortunately, no-test-text guy convinced his whole team that he was right, and I wasn’t able to block it. I’d scheduled a meeting to try to get the wider org to adopt a more sensible standard, but then there was a mass layoff 🤷

The other guy with the bad messages is at a tiny startup where they’ve laid off almost everyone, and the other 2 guys don’t want to make waves. The CEO is big on “just ship it” (and also “why are there bugs in production? this is unacceptable!!”)

Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. I think speed and accuracy of reading is also pretty low (I read like 80 wpm and 80% accuracy somewhere, but i couldn’t immediately find a good source for that).

If you’re on a text forum like this you’re probably well above the average person, and your experiences are not universal.

That said, I don’t have any data on hand about readability so you could be right. I’m sure people have studied it.

I think it’s partly because many people are only semi literate, and breaking the text up helps people read it. A larger block of text is "intimidating’

I’ve worked with a few people who are just incomprehensible. One refuses to write commit messages of any detail. Just “work in progress”. Cast him into the pit.

There was another guy that refused to name his tests. His code was like

describe(''. () => {
  it('', () => {
     expect(someFunc()).toEqual(0);
  }
 it('', () => {
    expect(someFunc(1)).toEqual(0);
  }
 it('', () => {
   expect(someFunc("").toEqual(1);
 }
}

He was like, “Test names are like comments and they turn into lies! So I’m not going to do it.”

I was like, a. what the fuck. b. do you also not name your files? projects? children?

He was working at a very big company last I heard.

edit: If you’re unfamiliar, the convention is to put a human readable description where those empty strings are. This is used in the test output. If one fails, it’ll typically tell include the name in the output.

Friends are almost all on signal. Parents are bad at technology and can barely figure out sms.

Funny how folks are different. I always enjoyed reading stuff and making up the ways it can mean stuff. Like, it’s easy to read Dracula and think about feminism and women’s place in the world. (a foreign entity shows up and now women are abandoning their motherly duties, wandering the streets at night? That won’t do. Get some men to hold her down and penetrate her with this big wood. Hmm.)

I often find the opposite mode, the absolute refusal to think about the story beyond “some things that happened”, tiresome. Like, “Ok I get that the story is about how they have to remove, possibly with violence, the competent women ruler and put the child boy on the throne because the rules say that only a man can rule, but why do you have to make this political? it’s just a fun story.”

Step 1: Acknowledge the problem.

Just getting the bulk of people to acknowledge, out loud, that the current capitalist structures are creating many unacceptably bad outcomes would be a start. People often leap to “well anarchy is bad too!” without spending enough time on how big the current state is.

Yes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don’t want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I’m on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it’ll remind me in a couple hours.

Sometimes for really important stuff I’ll set a timer myself, but that’s more steps than if the OS just had a “remind me later” built in.

I found a setting that alleged to enable snoozing, but it doesn’t seem to work. This is an older android phone though.

It would be helpful if my phone had a built in snooze function. Sometimes I get a text and I want to snooze it for an hour. Just dismiss the notification and remind me later.

mostly I avoid a lot of the big drains (social media, other than lemmy) and tell people I’ll get back to them within 24 hours.

I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I’ll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that’s not guaranteed.

AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that’s probably true of most big org’s leadership.