David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happenedEnglish7·1 day agolook, i didn’t say liar,
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English4·1 day agoTransformers do way better transcription, buuuuuut yeah you gotta check it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers downEnglish13·5 days agoeven the Nazis can’t stand these fucks
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish16·7 days agobecause they cribbed their ideas from deathnote, and they’re stupid
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish11·9 days agooh yeah that was obvious when you see who they are and what they do. also, one of the large opensource projects was the lesswrong site lololol
i’m surprised it’s as well constructed a study as it is even given that
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4·12 days agowonder if that’s why they tried and failed to change it to “squiggle maximizing”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6·12 days agothe comments are wild “yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern”
it should be, but he’s been actively promoting the stuff
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish5·12 days agoall the stock sites are. use case: an image that’s almost perfect but you wanna tweak it
LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4·12 days agoyou should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about “Hooked”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6·12 days agothe psychology of loot boxes?
yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900
the book is “Hooked” and it’s Don’t Build The Torment Nexus I’m Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish6·12 days agoAI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish18·12 days agothis sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i’ve heard about it widely
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish9·13 days agoI dabble in conversational AI for work
yeah this may be the wrong sub for you
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish17·13 days agothese are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish25·13 days agoahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those “open source” projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.
Here’s a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI
I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they’ll be making a mistake
dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool
so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn’t all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.
around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it’s about AI becoming superhuman
the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish7·13 days agothis is not debate club, per the sidebar
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish17·13 days agothis user has been removed for commenting without reading the article
being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English10·13 days agoand n=16 handily beats the usual promptfondler n=1
Convenience is king, and never mind accuracy.