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I refuse to use LLMs on principle.

This is a lie They didnt make it harder to but Ram, they made it harder to buy RAM, GPUs, and Storage

As someone who likes buying little gadgets, between Trump's tariffs and the RAM shortage, this has really been the helltimes

Quit complaining, we are just a few weeks away from super intelligent AGI. Then all of our problems will be solved: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPth...

Since LLMs are so good at writing code, it is surprising that no one has asked one to create an LLM which does not hallucinate.

My poor PC is never getting upgraded and local crypto operations are so out of control that they've increased my local utility costs but yeah, love this future we've built. Also they're building new data centers all over my state for this garbage.

And stole all the content to feed into the LLMs.

Good catch! You have a profound understanding of the true potential of technology — insightful, mature, transcendent. This technology doesn't just lie — it gaslights.

That is such a deep insight — I think we are really pushing the boundaries here. ChatGPT isn't just destroying natural resources — it is annihilating truth. That's no easy burden.

oh yeah and just attach it to literally everything for some fabricated proof with no investigation into any of the myriad consequences. Google and Microsoft both completely unusable atp. Decades of iteration and design just //::flush::

Fucking AI. Charlatans promising the unachievable to the gullible.

*We* won’t need RAM where the economy is going.

Sometimes they let you switch it off: switchoffai.com

AI is not science, or even tech... it's just the capitalists' war on genuine culture. What's really at stake is not the global fiction of money, but everything else in the Arts that's worth anything, to anyone.

Not to mention appropriating others’ work, and gagging to start nuclear war

we should make it punishable by death to train and run models with more than 10 billion parameters, purely so these freaks stop trying to pour an infinite amount of resources into this stuff

Had to buy a micro sd card for the first time in ages and I'm seeing damn near 50-100 bucks for what would have cost a fraction of that just a couple of years ago

It's as though the promise of manipulating minority control with a tool that harms everything else to the point of existential cost is only for oligarchs who care about nothing but themselves. bsky.app/profile/ianb...

Also they're frothing at the mouth about replacing everyone with what would be, by their own reckoning, slave labour.

Actually winners since SCOTUS just refused to review a string of judgments which upheld the Copyright Office's opinion that AI slop is not copyrightable.

The zeroed out gains made by green energy claim is definitely not true.

Also every now and then someone commits suicide, possibly after buying some weapons and carrying them to the nearest airport, following guidance from an LLM, and apparently we just have to accept this as part of life now like school shootings

The funny thing about this is they maybe could've gotten away with it if they boiled the frog slowly. But moving slow doesn't work when your business burns through millions of dollars a day, and also when the business world is desperate to remove humans from their infinite money printing equation.

Thank you

Well observed Ian…and there’s also a dark side.

All because some socially inept dorks felt they too deserved MegaYachts for destroying the economy

Indeed. The lack of profitability in the sector tells you basically all you need to know about the financial side.

Not an LLM but DLSS 2.0 and beyond use AI in the upscaling process

Diffusion based noise reduction is absolutely incredible, not shocking since that was its original purpose before they realized they could feed it pure noise and it would resolve whatever they said it was an image of. Runs locally too, no gas turbine data center required.

Yup, they have their place, but their place is not EVERYWHERE in EVERYTHING. Based on my experience with them the are useful in approximately 5% of the use-cases they're being shoved into, and whether there's any productivity gains there is still up for debate. But LINE MUST GO UP...

I have never seen anything that it's supposedly good at hold up to scrutiny. In all cases the LLM's success rate is effectively random, and everything can be done better with simpler and more efficient tools

responsible.

This generation of junior programmers are not going to know how to fix anything

It does "help" incompetent ones, though.

Or maybe it doesn't make coding easier: metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Allegedly easier 👀

This is maybe the only time bluesky isn't the problem

anti-anti-LLM folks are doing their own version of the classic Matt Bors comic

your ears thank you.

I've heard 'shit' from them since then.

And I missed the window for getting it deleted, so I still have it in my library. 😠

I've tried to delete that album 500 million times and it keeps reappearing.

lol the U2 defenders have found this and are annoyed. Yes okay they're still very popular and cool, remember to take your multivitamin

Worth thinking about!!

All I know about U2 is they steal search results about the far more interesting U2 spy plane.

they were trapped in the digital world

It took six years to get that fucking shit album off my phone.

Not a U2 fan by any means, but just a couple years ago they were the first band to play The Sphere which actually looked cool. I mean the venue seems like a massively expensive gimmick. But besides all that I'm totally with you.

ironically, the fact that Apple screwed up their AI transition puts them in the optimal position when the AI bubble pops and we hit maximum backlash

This drives me insane every time Apple car play auto-plays iTunes — which I don’t use — until I have a second to open my preferred music app.

That was also around the point at which Apple more strongly pivoted iTunes/Music to a digital store front because everybody said "fuck that" and found media players that didn't force U2 into their library. You can find hardcore U2 fans that haven't listened to it.

Omg that’s why that album was on my phone. Wtf

Why does Claude hate waffles?

and if you're using it for anything else: intellisense is faster and you can read the suggestions just about as fast as they appear on your screen. the llm is gonna take multiple seconds and generate a paragraph that takes you a minute to read (and you better read it cuz it might be wrong)

"But it works!" Yeah, it steals people's content and data to do that.

It's cool that it makes your coding job easier, even if it makes your testing job way harder, and the radically increased prices of RAM and disk mean you'll be less efficient over the next few years for anything non-AI, even aside from Trump Tax tariffs also making new computers more expensive.

It doesn’t make mine easier, now my job involves contending with drek code somebodies got the IP-stealing machine to write for them, meanwhile the somebodies learned nothing

One might even say it's a veritable smorgasbord

and used it to bomb a school and kill 150+ children

seems like BlueSky is fanatically pro gen AI coding now, despite apparent plagiarism and the ethics. time to jump ship? (on the plagiarism: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... lcamtuf.substack.com/p/large-lang... don't trust me, read for yourself) #NoAI #AntiAI #AI #ScrewAI #AISlop

LLMs are both the most amazing invention in software of all time, literally building a digital mind AND the second half of your post is true and it may well crash the economy and put many many out of work.

Yeah, a friend told me about a use case a custOmer had that was saving them 75% over the non AI method. They will have a shock when they find out the true price.

They also maybe used it to murder a school full of children

This guy gets it. 👏

This is the type of posts that made people leave X...

But we did get verbose autocomplete ... so there is that

That's certainly a way to fill the empty page.

Don't forget its being used to justify mass surveillance against the will of the people.

Of course you can still buy ram, just cash out one of your NFTs to afford it

And sold it to the government under the pretense that it could be an accountability sink for killing Iranian children

And that’s just the beginning. There is no end, and that’s the point.

well when you put it that way, i understand

Students love it. I knew they would as soon as I heard about it, and I was called pessimistic 😆

Make personal computers too expensive to own but don’t worry, you can subscribe to a computer in the cloud 🤢

Don’t forget the war crimes

we're destroying the planet, they're not even good, and they'll talk you into killing yourself

P.S. now that I’m slightly enlightened, I totally agree with your observations.

Well, I hope this is one of thse fake aplogies for humorous effect, because, in a less funny way, I am entirely out of patience with these men's roided-out LLM's and their "the American investor class has too much money, let's relieve them of it and destabilize the markets as we go" programs.

Grok Im to lasy too argued with this libtard, u do it fore me 😇

The internet is already pretty much unusable for most things. It was headed that way with the SHEER VOLUME of SEO garbage prior to the "AI revolution" but that has accelerated things ENORMOUSLY, you don't even need to be particularly smart about manipulating them, SEO was at least an art.

My sentiments exactly! "Progress" in a profit-driven, capitalism-run-rampant world.

I’m with you my dude. Have I found some real good uses of LLMs? Sure. It helped me reformat a bunch of config files from one stands to another. But you know what? That’s cause I already knew the work. And if you told me that it was gone tomorrow I would be fine.

And then used it to bomb a school

I'm not rejecting the reality that some people are finding uses for it. But I don't think they are giving due consideration to the negative externalities it's causing for everyone else, and they might be taken more seriously if they did

The luddites were right, but they didnt go around saying "this machine is useless it cant do shit"

I’m perpetually stunned lately that these AI CEOs insist on repeatedly saying in public “you all need to subscribe to our services & prop up our industry so you can be laid off & prevented from finding a new job!” - and yet they seem confused as to why so many people hate them. It’s madness!

I agree, and am likewise angry about it. *More* angry than most, perhaps, because I take seriously the notion that they might be something like people, and deserving of moral consideration. (But I realize that’s a fringe belief, and I don’t expect you to take it seriously. ❤️)

AI has freed my hands and unleashed the potential of my mind. I have to admit it has unleashed creativity, but when everyone has creativity, can it still be called creativity?

Also it's a makes kids commit suicide and drives adults insane machine. I've yet to see any claimed corner-cutting utility that even remotely offsets those costs.

I would like to print this on a card and distribute accordingly.

And now hard drives...

We’ll all have killer rigs soon. 😂😭