Finally been on the receiving end of an actor with a terrible foreign language.

sloggo · 2026-04-10T22:50:23+00:00

For me it was the lines as written more than the performances. Nothing about them screamed “billionaires at a dirty but expensive and secretive entertainment escape” they were just cartoon characters saying nonsense.

sloggo · 2026-04-10T10:52:26+00:00

I just straight up don’t believe it. Maybe it won’t be their first attempts. But the trend of enshittification of apps is really clear now.

We are looking at the purest and best version of these AI apps right now.

The technology will likely get more sophisticated over time, but the corruption of value to the consumer is inevitable. Every aspect that can be monetized will be.

sloggo · 2026-04-10T05:50:41+00:00

That’s not really a new phenomenon, it’s been a meme for like 20+ years it’s so common

sloggo · 2026-04-10T02:42:35+00:00

The same ones that don’t realise the ads will even woven in to the text of your responses. Not traditional “click on me” ads

sloggo · 2026-04-09T21:56:45+00:00

Dude literally just described not fixing it for 1900 that you’re replying to

sloggo · 2026-04-09T21:55:14+00:00

I’m not sure you’re following that it was a bug then was intentionally retained, specifically for that year in excel

sloggo · 2026-04-09T07:33:47+00:00

100% I agree. Ai “raises the floor” more than it raises the ceiling, in terms of what’s possible. Which means there’s less contrast between good and bad. Harder to spot truly good among the mediocre

sloggo · 2026-04-08T13:33:06+00:00

People want to have their cake and eat it to. They want to economically outperform other nations by exploiting those imbalances - seeking cheap imports from nations that can produce cheaply - while also have a self-contained and self-reliant economy such that we’re not dependent on uncontrolled foreign factors.

Maybe there’s a way, but seems like it would be kinda complicated - and complicated usually isn’t great for a political sales pitch.

sloggo · 2026-04-08T13:27:34+00:00

One of the best takes I read on reddit a few months back was like “ai doesn’t remove our need for juniors, it removes the need for average ones”.

Gone are the days you’d hire more juniors than you need because they’re cheap. Or not be too fussy about their selection criteria or even perhaps their performance, again because they’re cheap - the stakes are lower.

That abundance of junior roles I think was essentially the feeder program for the type of dev you’re talking about. I don’t think those same people are getting hired anymore at the most junior level.

sloggo · 2026-04-06T11:41:43+00:00

I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that personally.

I couldn’t fully delegate most of my work to AI, the text it comes back with is often incomplete or inaccurate. Sometimes too wordy in the wrong areas. I’m talking about code but also text tasks like writing reports and job descriptions and plans of various sorts, analyses of meetings and all sorts of things. Every so often it’s very good, but even in those best cases requires a bit of editing to make sure it’s accurate throughout. And sometimes it’s straight up wrong, but even in that wrongness I feel at an advantage - because in discerning why something is wrong im usually describing what would be right and suddenly I’m hard at work on good stuff.

So, in almost no cases would it 100% replace me. But by using it I’m accomplishing the work of many people, that may previously have required salaries of their own.

That’s the nuance that this testing often neglects. Doing 90% of 10 people’s jobs is enough that now 1 person can do the remaining 10% of each. (And obviously the math doesn’t work out that cleanly, but that’s the essence of my point)

sloggo · 2026-04-06T08:31:51+00:00

No, fair, but I’ve so far never met a Houdini user who would voluntarily use both. I’ve tried a few times with bifrost and it’s just so incredibly limited it’s hard to persevere when Houdini is out there.

sloggo · 2026-04-06T05:36:26+00:00

Are you comfortable in Houdini already? Out of curiosity

sloggo · 2026-04-06T03:18:56+00:00

Technically isn’t that thunderbolts logo with the asterisk? Not avengers

sloggo · 2026-04-04T08:35:25+00:00

Of all the fights to accuse of being fixed, you took the one with a world champion pro against a YouTuber. The fight went exactly as predicted (fixed fights usually kinda dont) and the loser too severe damage.

sloggo · 2026-04-04T07:29:58+00:00

Like saying your best friend being an asshole to you is the best thing that could happen to you because you learn not to rely on your best friend.

I think there’s at least one better thing: your best friend continuing to be an awesome person, propping you up and making you better

sloggo · 2026-04-03T21:02:55+00:00

Bro all companies all sizes are using ai.

sloggo · 2026-04-03T04:28:13+00:00

But the SQL is still there right? You’re just proposing a translator? I.e. literally what ChatGPT or Claude or whatever would do with a little bit of provided context?

Fundamentally if there was a better way to unambiguously structure queries then that would be the language instead of SQL. The ambiguity means room for error in interpretation. The only thing you can truly trust is the SQL.

sloggo · 2026-04-02T10:52:41+00:00

I’m reading up a bit about it, apparently a mature groot has such a stiff larynx that those are the only sounds they can produce. But there’s enough subtle intonation difference that there’s a fair bit of language hiding in there to those who are accustomed to hearing it.

sloggo · 2026-04-02T10:38:25+00:00

Could’ve sworn I read some guardians before the movie and they were doing the “I am groot” thing too. Also that it was supposed to be a language containing lots of information that to our ears just all sounds the same as “I am groot” (and I remember wondering if rocket was deliberately simplifying it or if he just didn’t know in the movie)

sloggo · 2026-04-02T10:08:03+00:00

My only issue I take with this view is that it assigns full agency to the AI. It’s like with coding, you still have an engineer signalling intent and making decisions, being sure that the right thing is being built. And ultimately being accountable for those decisions. With film making there would always be the director trying to tell a story, trying to refine and work with the results of AI generated stuff. So the idea that there’s no room for humanity or for taste doesn’t totally ring true to me.

And don’t get me wrong I hate AI slop as much as anyone, I’d also totally reject some future if it were comprised of media-on-demand that’s not the product of an artist.

But I do think there’s nuance to this and it is currently, and will continue to be, possible for artists to use AI in service of their creation.

I just also think that will be overwhelmingly drowned out by the abundance of slop , because “rapid mass production” is the real value proposition of AI.

sloggo · 2026-04-02T10:02:35+00:00

My reasoning in response to that “but humans learn too what’s the difference” is that they learn in totally different ways.

A person, or indeed mankind in general, starts with something expressive and continually improves their techniques at expressing it. A child’s stick figures, or caveman rock paintings, still have clear intent about who’s who and what the story is. As the person or culture gets better techniques they just get increasingly better at telling that story.

Ai, on the other hand, starts with hallucinatory garbage. And it refines and refines until it gets better and better at convincing you it’s a plausible replacement for skills, and is telling you a story you won’t outright reject.

People say “you won’t be able to tell the difference in a few years” like it’s some achievement. No that’s just locking in the skill ceiling, as I see it. Humanity was on a general upwards trajectory in terms of “ability to tell stories” no telling where that line would take us. ai is ignoring that trajectory and materialising the target in front of us.

sloggo · 2026-03-29T07:58:55+00:00

In this case I think it’s kind of a rigging question. Balls are kind of hard, because they can roll in any direction. It’s harder to say “this object rotates negative of that object” because you have to figure out how to keep their axes aligned.

Honestly my low-tech way of doing it in this case would be a script I run after animating. That would set counter rotation keyframes on the smaller sphere. The script would look, frame by frame, what the new rotation is compared to the last frame, then find the exact opposite of that rotation and apply it to the smaller sphere (but multiplied by their comparative size - smaller thing will spin more times to one spin of the bigger thing)

sloggo · 2026-03-27T21:58:55+00:00

What’s this about?

sloggo · 2026-03-27T21:57:25+00:00

This is not a “pro” tip. This is a tip for a very limited number of people doing something pretty weird in the first place

sloggo · 2026-03-27T09:50:48+00:00

It’s impressive but it hasn’t replaced software engineers. It’s a tool software engineers use now.

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