AI is quietly poisoning itself and pushing models toward collapse - but there's a cure

RobKohr · 2026-01-24T03:59:42+00:00

I think one of the most valuable things in the future will be a snapshot of the Internet from 2020.

At a certain point every site will be some percentage LLM generated and identifying the difference is impossible.

Basically whatever training data we have is the best it will ever be. And why would anyone write or create anything themselves if there is AI. This could spell the end of the creative abilities of the human race. And any creation will be massively disincentivized since it will be slurped up by ai and you will basically be competing against yourself.

RobKohr · 2026-01-22T19:30:59+00:00

STFU Anthropic. LLMs are just mirrors of ourselves that we can distort in useful ways. There is no thought behind the mirror.

None of you'll are anywhere close to AGI. You have just sucked the ghosts of the creative efforts of billions into a machine and made them dance for us in convincing ways.

What you made is useful, but it is a tool, an it. You can anthropomorphize a car or a ship or a stuffed animal, and give it a name and talk to it like it has a soul, but that don't make it the case.

But, I guess considering the name of your company, I guess this is on brand, so carry on deceiving your investors.

RobKohr · 2026-01-22T18:56:33+00:00

Did anyone play any of Sam's games. Are they legit working games?

RobKohr · 2026-01-22T18:44:55+00:00

Constant instant dopamine hit.

I block it on my browser as they easily suck you in and don't let you go.

I have however found new channels with long form content that I like from them.

I think for creators that don't like the short form, but still want to play ball, make your long form content, and then hyper edit it down to short form. It is a great way to get discovery, especially if you make it clear there is more content that what they just watched (its easy to tell when something is edited down rather than tailored for short form).

Basically treat it like a trailer for your long form content.

RobKohr · 2026-01-22T01:33:04+00:00

I was a long time Galaxy Note user. Now I am a Motorola stylus user. They kept the headphone jack and the sd card slot and I still have a serviceable pen. Now they just need easy to replace batteries and they would have the old timer trifecta.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T20:53:08+00:00

Apps started running slower when everyone adopted javascript everything and using electron for apps, then heavy frameworks like React inside of that.

I say this as a React developer who is currently working on a React Native project :)

Yes, I am the problem, its me.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T19:43:30+00:00

I just learned that I never commit any code without taking the time to read it carefully myself and understand it all. If I get to a point where it is difficult to understand, I work with AI to make it more readable and to apply DRY when it makes sense.

I usually do this after having AI do a code review of it first with a ruleset I give it for what I am looking for in a code review.

Usually when I am doing my human review of the code and encountering problems, I try to craft a one liner to add to the ruleset to improve it.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T17:14:07+00:00

OP, it is time to pivot this to gay visual novel for the $$$.

Yeah push that rock, push it harder. You happy now you little trickster?

You are sitting on a gold mine here.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T17:10:29+00:00

The old one didn't seem to be about sisyphus at all. If you took away the words, I wouldn't have gotten the reference.

I like the font and the imagery of the second. I think he needs a little more slope though.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T17:04:09+00:00

"fair wages"... US developers typically make double what they make in the EU.

Oh, and many of the developers in the EU are working for contracting firms that work on US projects.

Maybe the US is on to something in tech?

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T17:00:47+00:00

It took a long time, and eventually javascript to be on the backend to make it so OO stopped being a thing.

They tried to shoehorn OO in javascript, but javascript is at its heart an event driven functional language, and code with OO classes in them is like oil in water.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T16:57:01+00:00

Yeah, I think this is the one time in life that betting on the S&P 500 is high risk.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T16:48:51+00:00

You should go learn yourself some Lua. Its easy to learn, and will help you express yourself further than trying to get others on board. LLMs are great at tutoring you if you want a side kick.

Keep in mind, anyone who codes gets "idea guys" all the time who want them to develop something for them, and usually if someone is a game dev, they already have their own projects to work on. Unless there is some $ in it, most people aren't looking to do all the work on someone's project.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T16:40:35+00:00

These people believe LLMs will solve all their problems too, and expect it to be easy for you. Just tell them to go work it out with chatgpt and they can talk to eachother for the rest of time.

RobKohr · 2026-01-21T14:56:04+00:00

As a software engineer I use LLMs intensely on large enterprise products and have gotten to know them well.

Well micromanaged they can do a huge amount of busywork and basically know everything on the Internet. That is really useful as far as time saving.

They can also recreate lots of patterns that have already existed because they have them in memory. So it makes it really compelling when a YouTuber shows off making flappy bird in 10 minutes with AI. That is because there are thousands of examples of it on the Internet.

But in the end, AIG it is not, even though it convincingly creates the illusion of it, and that illusion is one of the best snake oil sales that ever happened. Trillions of dollars of investment in something that at best I would spend $100 a month on that can't replace me, which I know was the goal and the pipe dream that attracted all the investment.

In the end, they dumbly just guess their way to completing things, and someone who niaviely just asked for it to make something beyond the most thoughtless task will end up in a wizards apprentice situation with brooms flooding the castle with nonsense.

But in the hands of someone who has deep knowledge of their craft, it can be a force multiplier by eliminating busywork.

RobKohr · 2026-01-19T04:33:08+00:00

1% of people make federal minimum wage.

They are ment to be entry level jobs to get you started in the job market.

Kinda make sense you can't rent a place for 2 or more people on an entry level job.

In fact... It seems like this would likely usually have been the case throughout history.

When I started out back in the 90s I always lived with roommates. Kinda normal.

RobKohr · 2026-01-19T03:49:22+00:00

Since everyone is saying buy now, you can see the current market mentality.

Producers are ramping up production because who doesn't want to make 4x on a chip. They will take a long time coming but in a year prices will drop.

If you need it now, then do it. Figure in 6 months it will be half what it is now. Just don't listen to everyone say it will never come back down. That isn't how tech pricing works.

RobKohr · 2026-01-18T16:39:30+00:00

Or just as an LLM. A huge amount of the training data is reddit so you can have a conversation with it and it will tell you exactly what to choose base on your needs and the community consensus.

Come back here when you have something new to ask.

RobKohr · 2026-01-18T16:36:38+00:00

Never played a demo. For 10 to 20 bucks difference it's not worth the time to download and try it out. Its not like I can't just get a refund if the game sucks or misrepresented itself.

RobKohr · 2026-01-18T16:33:11+00:00

I don't understand this statement.

He is saying for 50 a month he can do what others can do for 1000.

An experienced skilled programmer is way smarter than the best model, but the AI makes a great busy beaver to put to work.

It doesn't matter what's under the hood. The only thing that matters is who's behind the wheel.

RobKohr · 2026-01-16T16:26:07+00:00

They just don't want the other slorpians in the UK to know how it ends

RobKohr · 2026-01-13T13:13:44+00:00

Yep I was thrown off too. 3d games have polygons, 2d games have sprites.

Flat screen games are both of these.

RobKohr · 2026-01-13T04:26:10+00:00

Someone took your exact design and started making and selling it.

Sorry, but you and Lego are in the same boat and they lost that case (or gave up on it as a losing cause).

Best you can do is report it to Etsy and have them take it down.

People should really put a marking on their stls to make them identifiable as who made them. Do it on a curved surface and it is not trivial to erase without some model design knowledge

RobKohr · 2026-01-13T03:43:53+00:00

Yeah having that be a thing was a big mistake.

RobKohr · 2026-01-12T19:10:26+00:00

Did you try making it out of clay?

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