Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

I woke up from a nice dream and realized I had work I need to be doing. So, I went and put a bunch of bags in other bags. I felt really accomplished until I woke up from that dream and realized I had real work to do.

@peterdrake With an LLM properly trained for education, I could see the value in it.
The problem is that new coders don't know when the bot is talking out of its ass (which it does frequently). And, worse, the bot learns from the user, which creates negative feedback loops for newer coders. That's why the current iteration of this tech still requires a wider domain knowledge (that new coders don't have) to be truly useful.

@peterdrake That sounds extremely problematic. Entry-level coders should *not* be using tools like CoPilot... all that will do is reinforce their mistakes and flaws and make them worse coders in the long-run.

Okay, I'm officially sick of hearing about the poor rich people in their submarine.

Can I please pay a few extra cents per gallon to not be inundated with shitty video ads at the gas pump?

@shuttersparks Sounds like the slow advancement of natural selection to me.

@Empiricism_Reloaded Idk about that. Being covered in fire ants would definitely feel like too much nature to me.

Is it just me, or does RFK jr. have really strong Connor Roy vibes?

@sylvia_ritter Well, that, or consumer boycotts. The problem is that the average consumer, for decades now, has chosen lower prices over things like living wages or fair play. We, as a society, are enabling this behaviour. Maybe new laws are the answer, but with their money and lobbyists, they can always carve out a loophole. Collective action seems like the real answer to me.

@jcct @anderseknert Oh, believe me, I know it. I started out fresh out of college in one of the biggest tech companies out there. If it wasn't for the fact that I went through a job placement firm, I never would have even known they owed me 5-figures of overtime pay, much less actually gotten that pay.

@sylvia_ritter Yeah... It's absolute bullshit that they work with companies/individuals who openly break the law and don't even seem to have a real process for addressing that. I can't even imagine how much that would suck if it was eating into my livelihood too.

Sounds like it's ripe for a class-action, but they know that few, if any, of the people affected could manage to set one up...

@jcct @anderseknert So true. That's a big part of why I went from a tech executive to an independent contractor. Sounds like a step down, but it wasn't, in almost every way.