Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
@ludicity Very enjoyable read, thank you.
I wish there was some mention of the energy costs / climate impact of the tech tho, which TBH is what worries me the most.
@ludicity this was a fun read. Thank you for articulating many of the thoughts I was struggling to convey. It’s a weird time to see all of this happening
@ludicity I don't know that unhinged rants really help convince anyone who's not already sick and tired of that shit, but as an avid reader of yours, I have to admit it does wonders as a mean of venting frustration by proxy (and it's always good to feel like you're not alone...)
Cheers for that!
@ludicity as someone in cybersecurity, I can say that you are correct that zero trust has meaning, but that meaning is not how people who develop products treat it.
Your podcast's name made me laugh harder than any joke I heard in the last year. My god.
@ludicity Thank you. I am not a software person at all, but this answers all my suspicions about AI, and tells me I was right.
@ludicity "average person speaks 10 phonemes per second" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person speaks 0 phonemes per second. Synergy Greg, who lives on blockchain & speaks over 10,000 phonemes per second, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
@ludicity I appreciate the segment about you visiting a less developed nation and how that made you feel about how funds in tech are distributed.
@ludicity Indeed! “That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable.”
@ludicity Loved your article! You eloquently express many of the feelings I have about the whole LLM hype; I just feel that my managers are going to be less enthousiastic about your... colourful language.
@ludicity I don't even know where to start here. Our org has absolutely power-shovelled well north of $100M into internal AI product development and exactly 0 of them are in any kind of operational state, let alone production.
One team's been working on deploying a single linear regression for about 4 years, and are still trying to morse code "data fucked, product owner quit, bomb our location" back to the parent org.
Also have about a 1:300 DE to DS ratio which tells you all you need to know.
@ludicity thank you for providing a perfect response for every single topic that starts with "how about implementing AI"
@ludicity fantastic. I got sick of the entire money grub direction of the silicon crowd in the 90s and decamped to the Midwest to problem solve clothing. Pretty relaxing. Good luck with the theater adventure! Mmm costumes!
@ludicity "[It] turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable."
BOOM 💥
@ludicity This was hilarious and felt so good to read. Really hoping for another AI winter just so the hype train ends
@ludicity The impression I've gotten of the state of the tech is that it's more like a spinal cord than a brain, but executives think so little of sapience itself that they can't tell the difference... and, since they resent the idea of needing employees, don't want to hear that there is one.
@ludicity Lol dude I love your writing style, have been binge reading your blog since an hour and wow after years it feels coming across an actual human being in tech.
Such a respite from the usual corporate "thought-leadership"
@ludicity O thank you. Alas that the grifters haven't the wherewithal to understand their sin.
@ludicity funnily enough, this came up on my feed shortly after reading your excellent article https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo
@ludicity @felimwhiteley an excellent rant on AI!
@ludicity I have to thank you for an extra hearty laugh here! Your post reminded me of a person in the industry I know (translation) that was hawking a company about blockchain something something translation something a few years ago. So I went and checked their website now. To quote a classic: Lol! Lmao.
(This dude, coz ofc a dude, has obviously been burning through other people's money, willingly given to him, for years now.)
@ludicity omg this is the best thing I've read in forever. Nailed it. Interesting, informative, and fucking hilarious. Reading it out to my husband but laughing so hard I'm crying.
@ludicity What if we call it Web 4.0?
P.S. Do you know why Google’s machine learning algorithm still feed me ads for women’s clothing in a language I don’t speak? Does it know something about me I don’t or is it extraordinarily and expensively stupid?
Some of the many pearls. Read the rest!
It was a pleasure. Thank you.
"Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes"
"I may not know anything about [...], but through the power of talking to each other like adults, we somehow solve problems."
"that's why I study so hard - I [...] must flee to the company of the righteous, who contribute to OSS"
> We have a few key things that a grifter does not have, such as job stability, genuine friendships, and 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘴.
> II. But We Need AI To Remain Comp-
> Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking.
> Whenever there is a ransomware attack, it is revealed like clockwork precision that no one has tested the backups for six months and half the legacy systems cannot be resuscitated.
This isn't fire, this is pyroclastic flow
@ludicity
OMG!OMG! Font big enough I can read without squinting into a head ache.
I ❤️ YOU!!
Please tell others of this magic you have created!
@ludicity I enjoyed this. Every day at work AI is proposed as the solution to a problem that could just be solved if two departments had a meeting once in a while, and this is probably being duplicated all around the business. By the end of the year there'll probably be 20 different departments spending millions to 'train' an LLM for the purpose of 'democratizing' the info on a 12 page intranet site that hasn't been updated in 8 years.
@ludicity hey man just wondering did you really need to insert the "rocketship trajectory" and "recursive self-improvement" and "it will definitely disrupt customer service" bullshit and back it up by referring to your "technical background"? do you really think natural language input is a replacement for todoist just providing a UI or god forbid a tiny deterministic DSL to do the same thing? i thought this post was funny and thoughtful but i felt sick reading that and couldn't continue
@ludicity a lot of what you wrote reminds me of the perpetual older debate (pre-ANN craze) of big data vs good data.
as someone who mostly worked with higher quality good datasets, I felt I was on the right side. I am pretty certain I am wrong and was wrong. In particular in the "political" sense you talked about, obtaining high quality data is mostly seen as a cost whereas big data is seem as acquiring an asset.
@ludicity I enjoyed reading this. I think that Zero Trust architectures are often a good idea for organisations that already have the basics of network security absolutely nailed and still have money to spend on employing IT security experts.
@ludicity refreshing article, takes me back to my corporate days leading digitalization strategy for supply chain operations. C suite always wanted a magical AI story. When I detailed the use case the team had unlocked in one of the regions, and also detailed the effort to reap the benefits, they were rather underwhelmed, despite the fact that the use case paid for itself in terms of the data engineers we needed to hire, and some other tangible benefits. The truth is great AI use cases are narrow, and require a lot of data engineering to get right. There's no magical shortcut that scales across the organization. I'm speaking for about 80% of companies, and I only called them AI because that's what the political jargon was, if you said algorithm or machine learning, most executives weren't interested in hearing it. And this was before LLMs showed up. I do wonder what the political landscape is like in a large organization nowadays
@ludicity What do you think about the points laid out in this comment? https://tildes.net/~comp/1h4d/i_will_fucking_piledrive_you_if_you_mention_ai_again#comment-d0xv (not mine)
@ludicity
🎼🎶I love #LLM
I put another rhyme in the #AI #baby
I Love #LLM
So make like #karaoke and Take On #Me.
@ludicity This is great, and perhaps a good example of the #WriteRisky style espoused by @phillipdewet? Ironically as a way of setting oneself apart as a human writer rather than an LLM android. Can't imagine an LLM getting the tone right whilst threatening violence to mouthy mid level executives. Quick way to getting the plug pulled.
@ludicity Your AI post absolutely nails my experiences and what I've been thinking for some time.
@ludicity I wasn't sure whether to post this or not due to piledriving risk, but unfortunately none of the four models the DuckDuckGo proxies are willing to make concessions about the paper mache, even the less moderated ones.