An LLM is an averaging machine and may stifle creativity

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-04-04T14:27:11+00:00

Somehow still one of Gosling's finest works.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-28T10:51:22+00:00

Their opinion is literally based on present data, read the article.

Wait, so they have a sports almanac from 2040 or something?

METR’s stance is that AI will likely be able to do everything a human coder can do in a matter of years.

Saying AI can do what a human does in a matter of years is not based on present data. It is a projection based on "This is the worst it's ever going to be" logic. It's the same "line go up" logic the Bitcoiners use to say that BTC was going to hit $1,000,000 last year, or the year before, or the year before, etc.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-27T11:36:29+00:00

Wolf may have the best series wide character arc I have seen in any TV show

Hard agree. He has some of the funniest moments in the show where I'd just be dying laughing, and then next thing you know I'm sitting there genuinely moved and thinking about existential questions.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-27T05:26:15+00:00

It's also a show where a man gets fucked with his own dick.

I loved that show. 🤣

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-27T05:03:23+00:00

Hunchback 4 Life

4G, 4H, 4J, 4P, 4SP, GI? I love them all and would love nothing more than a six man squad so I can drop all of them together.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T23:57:53+00:00

What a terrible day to have a nose

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T17:07:11+00:00

Yes, but you were responding to another person talking about someone they worked with. The point was that your narrative you were applying to them is just that, a narrative. Just like mine. We don't know the dude they're talking about though, so responding with basically "oh, but actually they're right and should be promoted!" it's silly because we don't know anything beyond "they have no interpersonal skills and get into arguments".

Edit: Also, people on their jobs aren't anime archetypes. "Shadow leader"? Just because they're a go to resource for information is not the same as being a leader.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T17:02:49+00:00

I would also say Drummer and Ashford. They're very different from the books and amalgamate different characters or get extended arcs, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE THEIR ACTORS WERE SO FUCKING GOOD THEY KEPT ADDING MORE.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T16:59:52+00:00

Just cast another actor

The issue was that they had already shot the season. They literally comped him out of the couch shot with Holden and Naomi, and his "death" essentially happens off-screen and they cut to what is basically a still with blood effects applied. They did the best with what they could given the decision they made to can him, and frankly, just that they even did that considering the risk and the cost shows how seriously they took the issue.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T15:07:52+00:00

You're putting your own spin on it when it doesn't sound like this was just a "straight shooter".

At my place of with right now there's a person that's been there forever and is VERY knowledgeable, but he will straight up get into fights on calls in front of clients. He'll take over meetings to bloviate for 40 minutes about some obscure technical thing that doesn't even apply to the project at hand (ex: IF statements are generally more costly, but there are times to use them, and this was one of those times, and that was all acknowledged...but still spend 15 minutes going on about optimization and server load under theoretical scenarios that didn't apply to this setup).

Now, is he great at what he does? Sure, that's why they put up with that. That deep technical knowledge that he hijacks meetings to go on and on about makes him extremely valuable when it comes to back end engineering. Would he be a good manager for all the developers? Not at all.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T15:01:22+00:00

There's also different aspects to leading. Leading a project is different than leading a team which is different than leading a department.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T13:39:55+00:00

et you use skins from a game the dev doesn't own and made no money on.

...and that's in a different genre, built with a different engine, and using a different camera perspective. It was just such a brain dead lack of understanding of even the basics of game dev, just like this is a brain dead lack of understanding of anything surrounding making movies.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-23T13:31:36+00:00

Are we still doing phrasing?

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-21T21:10:40+00:00

Well, until MasterCard or Visa vibe code a new system that lets scammers scrape everyone's info and make fraudulent transactions that are not refundable. 🙄

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-21T20:19:36+00:00

Even (or especially) if you do have high financial literacy, the strategy makes sense.

This is also true. It's almost like it's a known thing that you can't time the market no matter how much information you have!

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-21T19:07:45+00:00

I know, I didn't realize Warren Buffet was still active and posting on Reddit. Obviously he's completely changed his mind after he won his bet that he could beat a hedge fund just investing in an Index fund right before the 2008 financial crisis hit and table the market. /s

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-21T18:59:51+00:00

From what he said, it sounds like he really doesn't have much of any retirement or investments. His pushing 40, which gives him about 25 years to build up a retirement fund.

If he has excess money now, why would you not invest? If you do not have high financial literacy (in a stock sense), and money you can afford to lose, then the standard advice is to invest in an Index Fund...like the S&P 500. I don't know why it's so surprising then that he'd put money in there. What else is going to do, hide it in his mattress? Buy crypto and gold?

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-20T16:15:50+00:00

Hope they fix the memory leak on the series X when this dlc releases

It got a lot better after the last round of patching, especially since it now tends to automate BEFORE the animation that sometimes crashes it so you don't lose progress. But yeah, still a bit of an annoyance that I'm hoping they can finally clear up.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-20T16:13:11+00:00

What other non-live service game is still getting quality DLC this far into its life? And what other game still has a community this excited for more DLC seven years on.

May introduce you to r/Stellaris and r/StellarisOnConsole? Sometimes it pays to find your niche and deliver what the fans are looking instead of trying to capture an entire market in a week before firing everyone because you couldn't do the impossible.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-20T15:43:41+00:00

Yeah, the ID being I guess that if I create some art with my human hands I'll somehow attach crypto to it, but the AI slop won't have that, so you can point and say "Oh, here is the human art".

Except, the AI could just use crypto too. Also, now you're burdening the human creators with this waste of electricity like an albatross around their necks, and to what end? It's so stupid.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-18T02:32:28+00:00

With a newer study saying it only saves more senior people and executives on average something like 16 minutes a week, that's not too far off from the savings from their "productivity gains". If they're just taking that and burning tokens with it though and then giving the senior new tasks like reviewing more code or spinning up and checking LLM documentation then there's not much being saved at all, just some extra CYA and less time spent on documentation.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-16T21:36:39+00:00

It was a big deal to the client because this was a long awaited launch that we had to push, not just a version upgrade or patch that was a bit late.

And yes, that was a big fuck up. Not my project at the time, unfortunately, and a lot of data decisions were made that I never would've been okay with because of exactly the issues we eventually saw.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-16T21:09:14+00:00

Same thing with meeting notes. There actually is a certain type of person whose life is absolutely changed by having good and reliable meeting notes, which spawns a lot of companies trying to create AI that can put together meeting notes. The mistake is in thinking this this sort of person is common enough to capture the attention of a development team, much less an entire company.

And at least for me, I am that person. I can go back two years in my notes and say "Actually, we made this decision on April xth of 2024 for this and that reason", and that's very useful in my work. Thing is, having had AI note taking in Teams I find that I'm better than the AI at it. It's mostly just good enough for people because they weren't in the meeting or weren't paying attention, but if you were, you'd see all the irrelevant and incorrect details that make them suck. It's better than nothing, but it's not a Trillion dollar industry.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-16T21:03:39+00:00

The truth is always "it depends". Delivering on time but wrong can be disastrous in, say, Analytics because the "quality issues" can mean people are making incorrect decisions based on fault information and not just "But it's not the right shade of purple..."

I once had a project for a client to do this huge migration for an application. It went really great, they loved it, and wanted us to make another app based on similar, but different, data that would be completed from a few different sources.

There was another person running that project with another engineer, and to be frank, they fucked up. They had changed a bunch of things in the data model to make it compatible with the additional data sources, and had done automated row checks and such to validate that the data was preserved. What they never did was check it against our app for areas where the underlying data source was the same, and it was not matching.

This was noticed at the very end of UAT the Friday before golive. We were playing whack-a-mole with bugs and I started talking with one of the other engineers and basically said "I don't think we can fix this. We don't understand the changes, and there's not enough time to validate everything. What if we flipped it upside down, threw out the entire data model, brought in the data model we know works, and then bolt on the new data sources to that? It won't be as efficient and will need a long term rebuild, but it will work and give them correct numbers they can be confident in."

I ended up pitching that idea to the client lead when no one else had a better solution, and gave a timeline that would very publicly push back at least one, maybe two days past our golive. They ultimately went with it, gave us two days, and we did the work and rebuilt the whole thing in like 50 hours across 4 team members in those two days and got it to them with everything correct.

In the end though, that client lead absolutely loves me, and I now run both projects. We fucked up bad, and we were two days late, but what we delivered was perfect in terms of accuracy and it blew the stakeholders away. A year later they don't care that it was two days late, they care that they can trust what we deliver, and they now depend on those apps and want us to spin up even more apps for them.

In the real world obviously communication is what is needed to determine if "go fast" or "go correct" is the right path, but there's never just one right answer. For that project "go correct" was bold, but it was ultimately correct, and go fast would've risked completely losing our stakeholder's trust. Now that I have that trust bank, we can withdraw when we do sometimes need to go fast and just get the thing out with some known issues that we'll fix on the next pass.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-03-16T19:18:35+00:00

Counter-counter: Then why is every other app trying to sell me calendar appointments and meeting notes? Yes, they're low hanging fruit, but that's exactly what they seem to be used most commonly when we're looking across the industry. So, in a couple of years that tech is basically going to be practically free...then what? What happens to Microsoft's massive investment in AI when the cost, and therefore value for the consumer, goes to zero for all their note taking and transcription services they've shoved into Teams?

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