@dogbrained

As a Canadian, I have to resist the temptation to add "please".

@Dianora

@sundogplanets

I'm old enough to remember the first satellite. Sputnik, 1957.

I could tune my AM radio to hear it beep as it passed overhead.

We've had so much benefit from them, for communications and sensing.

70 years from proof of concept, through utility, to #enshittification.

@bonaventuresoft

@sundogplanets

I appreciate any Americans that submit a complaint, but who exactly gave an American regulatory body authority over the whole of low Earth orbit and beyond?

Colonial theft.

@PhoenixSerenity

@ricci

It's especially ridiculous coming from a machine representing a corporation.

@alice

@alexwild

It's almost as if countries and nationalism are designed to divide the vast majority with common interests, to make them easier to rule by a global oligarchy.

@PhoenixSerenity

@futurebird

My grannie taught me sewing, knitting and embroidery.

Yet here I am, learning more, 63 years later.

@david_chisnall @Anke @va2lam @bucknam

@futurebird

Does it become "official" when coded in hardware?

I still have the tin, but (k)not the machine, from my dad's automatic knotter.

He was a textile mechanic and this was in common use in the spinning and weaving sheds.

@ptoothfish

Not have I wished my drill would take pictures of everything I do, so the manufacturer could merge my designs with others and sell them through “AI”.

@Szescstopni

@futurebird

I hope they're not gender specific.

@chris

"Protection" as in "Protection racket"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

@AnnaAnthro

@briankrebs

"Exceptionally rare" for how long?

@kataclyst

@VisualStuart

Surely ICE members need an immigration agreement to enter Indigenous territory. The whole USA.

@aredridel

The utility to employers of programmers, yes.

I'm not clear how individual programmers benefit. Obviously not those who are laid off.
Not for those who take pride in their work.

@unlambda @maco @futurebird @david_chisnall

@stilescrisis

If you haven't been coding for a few years, you won't be a skilled programmer. It won't take a lifetime to run out of them.

@unlambda

Once there are few enough expert human programmers left, the price will go up.

And, if I read you correctly, they don't guarantee output accuracy with respect to input tokens but charge extra to try again.

And if they charge per output token, that is incentive to generate filler, certainly not to optimize.

@maco @aredridel @futurebird @david_chisnall

@maco

And if you're paying for it, there is an implied warranty that you'll get what you paid for.

Oh well, disputes w will be settled using lawyers with LLMs.

Which will further normalise the occupation of society by these corporate spokesbots.

@aredridel @futurebird @david_chisnall

@futurebird

Which is how LLMs will "evolve", including soul-destroying work by people in the global south, "training" them.

They will become better corporate spokesbots, flooding our communications systems with marketing-driven slop.

@ben @david_chisnall

@matt

That's hard, and so is figuring out the precursor of both code and test cases: the requirements.

I remember going to the US in the early days of Obamacare, for one State's new system to support it.

We had various experts representing different interests and they disagreed over so many points that I told them I would get them a neutral negotiations facilitator to help them figure things out, because I couldn't help until they were much closer to agreement.

@futurebird @david_chisnall

@raganwald

Having spent thousands of hours working with various involved parties, trying to understand what they did and how IT could help, I came up with Lawton's Law,
> Everybody's job is a lot more complex than you think it is. Including IT folks' jobs.

@futurebird @david_chisnall

@futurebird

Now I'm curious about whether LLMs' code compiles and executes error-free on their first attempt.

(Aside from the question of whether it meets requirements, as originally intended; always the hard part).

@david_chisnall