AI coding in a nutshell. It makes the easy stuff easier and the hard stuff harder by leading you down thirty incorrect paths before you toss it and figure it out yourself.

I think there might be a lot of value in describing it to an AI, though. It takes a fair bit of clarity of thought to get something resembling what you actually want. You could use a junior or rubber duck instead, but the rubber duck doesn’t make stupid assumptions to demonstrate gaps in your thought process, and a junior takes too long and gets demoralized when you have to constantly revise their instructions and iterate over their work.

Like the output might be garbage, but it might really help you write those stories.

They already edited out the one nipple shot I’m aware of in the palace. Doubt they are bringing it back.

NSFW i guess: https://youtu.be/J11J2kMtZDo?si=fUUuIOZ8vnwFqvZb

I’m very familiar with RLM. It’s a good critique. I still think it’s fairly accurate, but played way up for comedic value and virality . They are entertaining movies that fill in lore without fucking everything else up.

The best of the sequels can’t even be in the same continuity because of the change to hyperspace. The new canon was fucked up 15 minutes into the first god damned movie. Now I can enjoy the first two for what they are, but they aren’t part of any actual story, and the movie that ties them together is a garbage movie even if it weren’t Star Wars.

I mean maybe the future will prove me wrong, but I’d bet good money no one will give a positive fuck in 10 years.

I’m not. I remember being disappointed that RotJ was another freaking Death Star.

Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in my life. I really want to be excited about this. Really badly. But I’m just not. The title is awful, the last movie is awful. I’m not going to stop loving the Star Wars that exists, and every once in a while they have a happy surprise like Andor, but my excitement for new stuff is dead.

The people making Star Wars movies today don’t understand the things that make it unique from everything else, so they make it garbage.

No. The last movie ruined the entire trilogy. And I liked TLJ, but there was no overarching story to the trilogy and the whole thing was completely pointless, but mainly the last movie was so so fucking awful.

There is no fucking way anyone is going to appreciate them in 10 years. Sometimes movies just suck.

This helps with writing unit tests as well.

Baldur’s Gate broke me on live service games. If I can’t play offline, I don’t need the game. I’m paying something like $80 per year for Diablo 4 (because PS plus required) and I often take months or years off from playing Diablo games. What a waste of money…

It’s an art, not a science. Which is where I think a lot of people misunderstand software development.

All I could think of.

I’ve tried multiple times to go IP6 only. I mostly thought, despite my reasonable understanding of IP4, that I was the problem in trying to set it up. I found my dns host was being forgotten multiple times a day, set to something invalid, then it would time out and revert back to the working one. I couldn’t figure out how to connect two computers together for Minecraft.

Now I hear it was just garbage consumer hardware and software? Fuck me. So much wasted time and effort to say nothing of believing I had turned into a tech idiot.

That was a problem solved seventy years ago. If there’s no one around, just go. No one cares.

Longcar is looooooooonnnnnng.

I watched it over a couple days. I thought it was petty interesting.

I don’t have the experience to refute that. But I see the same things from developers all the time swearing AI saves them hours, but that’s a domain I know well and AI does certain very limited things quite well. It can spit out boilerplate stuff pretty quick and often with few enough errors that I can fix them faster than I could’ve written everything by hand. But it very much relies on me knowing what I’m doing and immediately recognizing the garbage for what it is.

It does make me a little bit faster at the stuff I’m already good at, at the cost of leading me down some wild rabbit holes on things I don’t know so well. It’s not nothing, but it’s not what I would call professional-grade.

The more you use generative AI, the less amazing it is. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy it, but it really can only impress you when it’s talking about a subject you know nothing of. The pictures are terrible, though way better than I could do. The coding is terrible, although it’s amazingly fast for similar quality to a junior developer. The prose seems amazing at first, but as you use it over and over you realize it’s quite bland and it’s continually sort of reverting to a default voice even if it can write really good short passages (specific to ChatGPT-like instruct models here, not seen that with other models).

I’ve been playing with generative AI for about 5 years, and it has certainly gotten much better in some ways, but it’s still just a neat toy in search of a problem it can solve. There’s a lot of money going into it in the hope it will improve to the point where it can solve some of the things we really want it to, but I’m not sure it ever reliably will. Maybe some other AI technology, but not LLM.

It could be elected President with chops like that.

That was really weird for me, too. Then they did it so they could use the cliche “suspect looking sus” trope. And then they undid that 20 seconds later. It’s a minor gripe but I did notice that was all really confusing and nonsensical for no good reason. Star Wars has been doing a lot of that lately. Ahsoka was full of scenes that just didn’t need to be there or made no sense.

Ahsoka was more egregious in my opinion. It really aggravated me in the first half season. This particular one was small enough that I can just let it go and not worry about it.