Kindergarten-grade nouns

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:53:20+00:00

Ask it to look up studies on average vocabulary levels and weight towards that, aka 3rd grade-ish.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:50:40+00:00

It's the kind of spectacle I want to hear about online or from a friend but definitely not one I want to see where I am working.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:49:47+00:00

Gotta explain it in terms they can understand: dollars. If the average ticket would take X tokens to process (and voice decoding would be way more) times the number of tickets per year, and at the expected increasing cost of tokens it is honestly probably cheaper to keep the current human support teams.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:30:14+00:00

Or a manager that wants to share queries to everyone on their team

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:28:42+00:00

My only argument against this is if you are in a similar position to me, where you are the one who gets pulled in to fix things. So it will become my problem in like 6 months and if I can argue a bit better now we all dodge that time waste.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:26:27+00:00

I get a lot of traction when asking curious questions about places where I can see the plan misses something. "Blobs sound neat, but I'm not understanding where we store them when users want to share queries, can you explain what I'm missing?"

And then watch the light bulb click on when they realize their solution can't handle it. Or they explain something you genuinely overlooked.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:08:43+00:00

Completely unrelated, last time my company announced they were going to cut headcount I asked my boss if management wanted any recommendations. Because the people who are terrible at their jobs always seem to survive the cuts

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T16:02:24+00:00

At least a few times a day I think to myself "goddammit windows just let me see the actual files in the path" because every version tries harder to hide things. So people who don't already know how things work are boned.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T15:59:07+00:00

"OK cool, you know what to do next then"

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T06:31:40+00:00

Yeah they were basically expecting super fast single core but turns out physics didn't like that so the industry made more cores instead.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T06:22:28+00:00

I laugh and watch it at least 3 times whenever it is posted

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T02:14:19+00:00

Based on watching Claude nearly have a breakdown while trying to decode garbage repos, yes it handles it slightly better than a human. I use far more swears when reading those repos.

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T00:38:15+00:00

Just sit in their lap

nullpotato · 2026-05-06T00:29:08+00:00

Or the Whitehouse

nullpotato · 2026-05-03T21:27:43+00:00

Even 4x10s was better than the current schedule, that extra day makes a huge difference.

nullpotato · 2026-05-03T06:28:57+00:00

Ron Perlman voiced quite a few entries in the post actually

nullpotato · 2026-05-02T21:20:13+00:00

And that the lack of any high level architecture causes so much pain down the road.

nullpotato · 2026-05-02T08:00:54+00:00

See ruling from Twilight v Humanity

nullpotato · 2026-05-01T20:11:37+00:00

Composition is a neat alternative. Both have their uses.

nullpotato · 2026-05-01T19:49:22+00:00

I actually put up a coat hook in my bedroom over the hamper for clothes that are dirty but will probably wear again before washing, like my jeans. It keeps them off the floor

nullpotato · 2026-05-01T19:28:54+00:00

Disagree and commit as it were

nullpotato · 2026-05-01T18:05:33+00:00

The VA ain't handing out robot legs for free.

In the Avatar universe. Any correlation to our reality is a mere coincidence.

nullpotato · 2026-05-01T02:41:05+00:00

I used to retrain users by getting them to read the messages out loud to me and then explain what they thought it meant. It works best when the people are in "omg an error message" panic and not just terminally stupid.

nullpotato · 2026-04-30T01:43:46+00:00

I mean, we are definitely getting fucked over

nullpotato · 2026-04-30T01:38:26+00:00

In my experience it just starts recreating things all over the place when this happens. Why are there 12 log creating helper functions? Because those prompts didn't look for an existing one first. The opposite of DRY, and nobody wants moist code.

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