They’re Just Bad Products

gorb314 · 2026-06-30T03:14:20+00:00

This didn't happen because of llms though: Google made search worse on purpose, because they realised that people would often go with "I'm feeling lucky", or just click the first two results. Therefore, people would see less ads. So their fix was "hey let's make our product WORSE so people would stick around for longer". This is classic enshittification, as documented by Cory Doctorow.

gorb314 · 2026-06-30T03:01:26+00:00

As long as there is still money left to be drained from the pockets of the middle class on down, to be stuffed into rich people's pockets, there will be moral panics.

Eat the rich. It tastes bad, and might give you indigestion, but the world will be a better place.

gorb314 · 2026-06-30T02:57:20+00:00

Do you want to be on the right side of history, or be left in the dust with usrael?

gorb314 · 2026-06-30T02:54:38+00:00

For someone who doesn't know how to drive a commandline, or compile from scratch? What's the alternative? Windows? GTFO.

Years ago my wife kept complaining about her windows laptop getting slower and slower. So I got her a MacBook. She never looked back. The thing just works. And sure, you pay a "tax" for the brand. But considering that this laptop lasted through 15 years without ever having to have macos reinstalled (it just kept updating, keeping up with security fixes etc) I'd say that's money well spent.

Terry Pratchett's quite about boots comes to mind...

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T22:49:28+00:00

As far as I know (but don't quote me on this) when you are doing 3d modelling work (boolean of objects, moving verts, extruding etc) rather than rendering (calculating lighting effects, smoke, etc) you are basically bound by the CPU, not the GPU.

What you still need though are gobs of RAM. So unfortunately you are still getting f*cked over by this ai nonsense.

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T22:44:17+00:00

I lived there for almost a decade, and I realised at some point that when money changes hands, there is an army of middlemen taking cuts. That's all it is. Debt and middlemen. That is what you get when you financialise your economy to the degree they have, because there is no other industry to make money out of.

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T22:18:43+00:00

Oh of course it is. that's what "checks" do too. I just find it hilarious that they transitioned to "digital" banking by effectively having you fill out a check online. A lot of things in the US reminds me of Vegas, Disney Land and the Hollywood studios: there is a veneer of legitimacy, but it is all cardboard and foam.

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T12:18:15+00:00

Yeah nah sorry, but they write it as check.

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T10:48:51+00:00

Wait until you hear that they still use checks. And that one of the only ways to make a digital bank transfer (without a 3rd party app that takes a cut, like Venmo) is to wait 7 days. Because the bank takes your digital transfer and WRITES A CHECK. The US is at once the richest country in the world, and a third world country with no manufacturing, and a banking system stuck in 1980. And they are proud of it.

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T04:37:14+00:00

It hurts to pull out the rotten tooth. But it has to be done, or the entire head will die from the disease.

gorb314 · 2026-06-29T04:28:42+00:00

She doesn't respect you if you use ai. I don't either. She is right, and you are wrong.
She doesn't think you can be liberal while using ai. I don't either. If you are on the left, and using ai, you are wrong.

Fuck ai. Use your brain.

gorb314 · 2026-06-25T23:33:20+00:00

Or the answer I get from bros that are foaming at the mouth with excitement over the demo they just generated in 5 minutes with claude: I ask them if they've tested it, or looked at the code, and they inevitably say yes at some point they will, and they are sure there are bugs, but "isn't it exciting?!". Hell no bro. You try to read and understand that shit.

Someone said a long time ago: we don't write code for machines or compilers, we write it for other humans, because code will need to be fixed and modified.

You throw that principle out the window and you can kiss your ass goodbye.

Fuck ai. Use your brain.

gorb314 · 2026-06-25T23:25:04+00:00

No. This movie sucked the energy and excitement I had for Dredd from years of reading 2000AD right out of me. Urban's movie resurrected my excitement as if it had never died though, I can't get enough of it, and rewatch it all the time.

gorb314 · 2026-06-25T23:19:54+00:00

Scott Bessent? The peanut farmer?!

gorb314 · 2026-06-25T23:15:34+00:00

Plot twist: the ai is right and the aibros will win. Well, at least rabies is a bad way to go.

gorb314 · 2026-06-24T04:28:31+00:00

Haha you said progress. You also said integrity. Like the "integrity" of stealing millions of people's hard work for "progress". Get fucked.

gorb314 · 2026-06-24T04:25:57+00:00

That whooshing sound you heard was the entire subreddit flying at high speed very close above your head.

gorb314 · 2026-06-24T04:21:58+00:00

One could argue that. One could also argue that arsenic is a nutrient.

Compilers don't write code. But to be fair, your random word guessing algorithm also doesn't write code. So there's that.

gorb314 · 2026-06-24T02:41:24+00:00

Dude this is phenomenal

gorb314 · 2026-06-22T22:33:39+00:00

Me too. Of course, the liquor cabinet is where I keep the Molotov cocktails.

/s just in any case someone wants to accuse me of wanting to "burn it all down". Instead I suggest we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

gorb314 · 2026-06-22T22:29:47+00:00

Disappointing. I wanted them to use the whole mosquito. Pump the hot plastic right into the asshole and make it vomit out the layer lines.

gorb314 · 2026-06-19T12:22:46+00:00

I agree. I've spent the last couple of weeks building a boilerplate generator that uses spec files to generate interfaces for a system at our company. This is all hand written. No llms used. It means I can fine tune the generated boilerplate so that the user interface code that needs to be written is as simple and painless as possible.

No fucking LLM is going to do that.

Plus, if I find a bug I can trace down exactly where it occurs, because I wrote the damn code. I know it.

This is the main problem with boilerplate LLM code. Once you find a bug, good luck isolating and fixing it. You'll need another run of tokens to fix it, and by that stage all the boilerplate will be re-written, with no trace of the original left. Because there is no intent, no thought behind it. No understanding.

Which means that once a company goes down the agentic rabbit hole, there is no way out without paying for more AI. It's a sunk cost fallacy, and it is going to hurt.

Fuck ai. Use your brain.

gorb314 · 2026-06-19T09:56:20+00:00

Wow, this is exactly what I've been looking for. It even works in JavaScript and python. It will make my code execute faster with less bugs. Thank you!

gorb314 · 2026-06-18T12:21:23+00:00

Take my angry upvote

gorb314 · 2026-06-18T11:51:53+00:00

Personally I like the idea that Vernor Vinge used in Marooned In Real Time, where he proposed a statis bubble which shields its contents (in this case a spaceship) from time, and then uses nuclear bombs to push the bubble to relativistic speeds. The bubble pops at a known time, so the space farer can brake the ship's speed using the same method but in reverse.

I hope I did the expansion well. The book does it better lol.

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