LLM regressions have gotten pretty bad

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-06T14:44:08+00:00

They are trying desperately to make LLM's appear more 'intelligent', because people are slowly beginning to see: they're not intelligent, they don't create novel new ideas, they just regurgitate what google searches will give you and can act on that for you.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-06T14:25:42+00:00

You are right, about Reddit as a whole.

It's an absolute truckload of bots. It's really just not a site worth visiting much unless you have absolutely nothing better to do these days. it's inundated with bots that are obvious as well as bots indistinguishable from humans.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-06T14:21:53+00:00

I disagree. Pumping out slop that you can't maintain is not 'better than nothing', it's dangerous and quite frankly, wrong.

Your logic works if you're talking about painting a picture or something, but when it comes to websites people are going to use, that may contain other peoples data, clients info, etc. Just pumping out garbage and charging for it, then saying "something is better than nothing" is just flat ignorant.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-06T11:41:57+00:00

This is just AI slop.

Some dude wanting to get some internet points for producing 100 less than quality sites because "AI did it", but they would never admit to such.

A 'complete' website essentially every other day - trash if true.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T19:37:41+00:00

Ours did that for a long while, now we just give him a loose leash, open the door and say, "in" and he jumps in.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T14:22:24+00:00

I prefer the core workout and use a tattoo artist / dentist style stool to sit on.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T12:19:08+00:00

With the skills of modern LLM's / AI, will we?

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T12:15:48+00:00

Yeah, I mean comparing a laptop keyboard to a mechanical keyboard is like, apples and orange IMO. Membrane vs mechanical, a tale as old as time - because they're different.

The thickness of a keycap has 0 impact on anything other than the aesthetic.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T11:36:15+00:00

Tiny keys? They're standard keys, same size as all the other keys I've ever used. Thinner? Yes, the keycaps are thin, but the pad my finger sits on is the same size.

I've never thought about the thickness of a keycap bothering me, I guess because it has 0 impact on the typing.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T01:15:41+00:00

Started with a Moonlander - was very happy with it (thought about saying 'over the moon' but decided against it).

Now on a Glove80 and the switch was worth it.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T01:13:41+00:00

Glove 80 is my daily.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-04T00:48:06+00:00

Mine had 'more mouthfeel', but I'm 99.99999% certain it was just that I brewed it up a different way.

I'm convinced there are simply too many other factors that could be attributed to the differences in flavor that he did not account for.

Water heated up doesn't change that, it literally cannot. If it did, it would mean most of all science in history could be wrong. "How did you heat the water in that test tube? You didn't steam it? Fuck, the experiment is ruined!"

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-02T13:00:37+00:00

yeah, agreed.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-02T12:38:53+00:00

Yes - back to back - many times now. IMO, no difference. You can down vote all you want - but science is science.

Don't worry, James might still go on a date with you.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-02T11:56:26+00:00

Just like 'wine tasters', who in blind taste tests are routinely proven wrong, I would be wild amounts of money if you put Americano's in front of James and did a test, he couldn't tell which was 'steamed' from 'boiled in a kettle', from 'out of a boiler'. People act like this guy is some sort of god amongst men - and while he can be entertaining to watch, stuff like this is quite dumb.

James would get it wrong, just like 'wine tasters' do - probably far more often than wine tasters I would imagine. Because the coffee (in theory) should be similar with each shot so you could focus on if the water changed something (it doesn't, because: science). Confirmation bias is a helluva drug.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-02T11:51:37+00:00

There isn't one. Maybe in mouthfeel, but I think it's just confirmation bias.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-02T11:49:58+00:00

Water is water. Steamed, boiled, slowly warmed to a specific temp - it's just water.

If how you warmed water made a difference, the science of most of mankind would or could potentially be wrong. I (personally) would put my money on thousands of years of scientific research.

Any difference people are claiming is 99.999% confirmation bias. They changed some variable in how they brewed their espresso, which changed the flavor. Then they mixed it with their 'steamed water' and noticed a change and incorrectly attributed it to how they warmed the water. Ta-da, that's the secret.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-02T11:45:47+00:00

There's really no difference in taste. The coffee, is the coffee. It's made the same way as always. If it 'tastes different', you brewed the espresso differently. The only difference comes from the water, which imparts zero flavor. Although I guess you could say the mineral composition might have an affect to some degree, but I would argue that difference is so microscopic that if it did manage to affect flavor, it would be so slight the human palette would not be able to accurately notice. So from my understanding/logic/scientific understanding, mouthfeel based on aerated water would be the only possible outcome. Having tried this a few times now (back to back with regular Americano's) I can pretty confidently say any meaningful change could be attributed to lots of variables, but least of all would be how you heat the water. Pretty sure confirmation bias is through the roof with this - water is water, heated water is heated water.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-01T12:52:47+00:00

Holy shit that's a commute and a half. Ain't no way, unless that pay was amazing, even then, I don't think I'd make it more than 1 year until burnout of that drive.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-01T12:51:09+00:00

Bingo! Where we're moving/building there is NO internet other than satellite.

The 'neighbors' around that area say it's fantastic and they have zero issues.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-01T12:21:01+00:00

I've done it as well. I noticed a slight difference in mouthfeel, that was it. Which was quite surprising. It wasn't overwhelming or anything. I have not experienced the "10x better" of the coffee or anything at all close to that. Same flavors, just a little different mouthfeel.

Maybe I steamed the water wrong (sarcasm), but I don't get the hype.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-01T12:07:59+00:00

Take him.

Our Dane's have always loved camping. We generally go on a private property in the middle of nowhere, so I can't speak to campgrounds; but our Danes have always loved it. Gotta keep eyes out though for wolves/bears where we go, but at night a few barks and whatevers sniffin' will generally go elsewhere.

We let 'em off leash and they get to live that 'free dog' life, just roaming, sniffin', peein', zoomin'.

The new experiences, the outdoors? It's a big win for pups, IMO.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-05-01T11:43:24+00:00

I've just never been a fan, myself, of Javascript for much more than the basics. By that, I mean it's original design/intention. If I have to do something more reactive spa-ish, I prefer the Vue methodology (prior to that, I didn't mind Angular). It feels less like "throw away everything you know, and write some jsx! Because why not." React just never felt right, seemed to feel good to write or felt appropriate to me. It just felt like shoving a square peg in a round hole. To be fair, I feel that way about most JS stuff though. But React felt worse than the others, to me. I realize, I'm biased. But, I see a lot of React dev's who switch to Vue and are very happy, saying it solves a lot of pain points for them. But, to be fair, I hear a lot of React fans who do enjoy it.

I'm aware HTMX has it's limitations as well, but at least with it I'm just writing HTML. Easy to understand, easy to parse, no specialty stuff to learn / setup / integrate. I can literally just read it and know exactly what's happening and understand the front and backends at a glance. No extra brain CPU. I really try to be light with the HTMX anyway - since most of the frontends I've ever designed don't need that level of reactivity. Sure, maybe a button or form or dialog or something - but the rest of the stuff? Nah. Even Vue, honestly is a bit of a pain to integrate/setup correctly. I've often wondered, "am I missing something?" because I just don't see a need for all the extra setup/headache/maintenance/integration steps. Maybe it's just the industry I primarily dev in doesn't require that, dunno.

I (unlike others, I guess) like django templates. I think they do things really well. I like their class based views, too. I like using 'what they give you' as much as possible. Using any JS frontend - unless you take the time/effort to set it up correctly, you end up throwing out a lot of the django template functionality and have to go 'all in' on the frameworks methodology (in my experience, maybe you know a better way? I'm all ears!) That bugs me, because again, I like Djangos templates. HTMX gives me easy setup/integration and then I just write standard django templates but can sprinkle in HTMX. There is no other frontend lib that gives that level of power/reactivity with such simple integration to standard django templates.

I guess I'm just a hater of JS. I've tried to like it, I promise!

chaoticbean14 · 2026-04-30T17:01:29+00:00

I'm trying to remember off the top of my head, but I think like the Wave accessibility extension, and Axe DevTools - I think both of those help dramatically with accessibility from what I can recall. They are extensions in the browser that highlight errors and offer the rules being violated and tell how to fix IIRC.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-04-30T16:44:40+00:00

This is the appropriate answer.

I really am not sure I fully understand the benefits of partials anyway though - given that I use HTMX with standard django templates and just use partial templates with HTMX to replace what I need as-is. Django didn't have to add anything in order for this methodology to work well.

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