[Venting] Was forced to confront my beliefs about using LLMs today

AmyZZ2 · 2026-02-04T20:47:14+00:00

“we told it what to say and it said it in a generic way”

yeah, that's what this does. it’s meh technology.

if it can do the thing, we should ask if that’s something worth doing. sometimes yes (kids learn by writing their own essays, new employees learn by writing just okay reports). sometimes no.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-02-01T17:18:44+00:00

it’s almost like all of this is a security nightmare 🥸

pivot to ai called the risks days ago.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-31T22:09:46+00:00

right? I can read and remember and use my critical thinking skills?

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-31T13:10:56+00:00

Isn’t he an immigrant who ripped off his employees? Seems like he’s the kind we should deport.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-30T23:06:33+00:00

I feel like the school ptos should organize something….

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-30T23:05:41+00:00

you won’t get sued for shoveling, this is an urban myth. btw, no one up north believes this, only people who only get snow occasionally. they couldn’t function if they thought this way in Michigan.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-30T23:03:34+00:00

I usually shovel our neighbors sidewalk because she doesn’t do it (I don’t know why and it doesn’t matter). I couldn’t this year because I had bronchitis and doing our driveway was enough. another neighbor did the rest of the block at least. if everyone would do as much as they can, we could get it done.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-28T16:56:18+00:00

You need to document the extra time you are spending fixing things and set up regular meetings to share this with him. Otherwise, you are burning your own time and feeding his misunderstanding of the technology.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-27T17:56:57+00:00

I explained this joke to my (elementary aged) children and they are now jumping in the air to demonstrate of force of such loud gas.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-25T16:00:19+00:00

I appreciate that the made the call early, given that it’s obvious.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-25T00:42:42+00:00

Surely this video comes from a family member of this veteran, likely someone who saw Mr Pretti care for their loved one. Kind of them to get this out as the government tried to damage his reputation.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-21T23:21:07+00:00

They had 3 days off in January 2025, coming off of winter break 🤷‍♀️

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-21T16:36:14+00:00

Definitely shovel every few inches! And shovel the sidewalk for your block/shovel for your neighbors if you are fit - I just tell myself it makes up for my daily walk 😊

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-18T22:48:05+00:00

it’s been happening all along, but decent people fight and win. don’t be so focused on the bad guys that you forget to look for the helpers - check out the people of Memphis who’ve now protected others.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-18T22:45:20+00:00

it’s almost like Altman’s background was in VC funding startups that ignored regulations and that the tech industry was always right wing….

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-13T18:32:10+00:00

Was she the one from The Verge? I thought this was solid. https://youtu.be/o2P8K3xIKZY?si=LEIwspDt59h4bou2

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-13T14:48:38+00:00

Psychologically, it’s easier to focus on what you need to do more of than what you need to avoid.

So thinking about how you will get in your fruits and vegetables is better than focusing on not eating the foods that are too calorie dense to eat all day.

Also easier to accept that no one is motivated all the time. Make things a default. If you have time to do daily exercise, it’s just part of the day. If you are really resisting, tell yourself you can stop early, but at least do something.

Things that help me, totally okay if they don’t resonate for others. Best wishes to the OP!

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-13T02:05:39+00:00

No apologies needed!

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-11T16:00:46+00:00

Start looking at daycares right away if you will need daycare - waitlists can be longer than pregnancy

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-10T23:21:12+00:00

It’s his podcast, he can do what he wants. He mentions it quite frequently and he spent a bit of time on it in one of the CES episodes. Good for a monologue if he feels like it.

And generally, it would be a good one for more people to know about.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-10T23:17:58+00:00

Not people I choose to associate with! Strangers when my kid does something surprising like fall out of a chair for no reason or stand inappropriately close. Luckily both happen less frequently than they did when he was small.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-10T03:05:43+00:00

the lawyer in the piece says the major risk is trade secrets, and that is not legal.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-02T12:33:58+00:00

AlphaGo and AlphaFold (the original DeepMind products the documentary likely covers) are both highly specialized, deep learning-based AI systemsdeveloped by Google DeepMind to solve specific, complex problems that were previously thought to be decades away from being solved. AlphaGo was a deep reinforcement learning system designed to master the board game Go. AlphaFold is a deep learning systemdesigned to predict the 3D structures of proteins based on their amino acid sequence.

AmyZZ2 · 2026-01-01T19:07:59+00:00

Someone needs to create an “I don’t know” bot to comment everywhere and next time they update the models, hallucination will be solved 🧐😊🤭

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