If it really is a propaganda, infiltration, and pressure tactic then none of those things justify it’s existence. Of course it might not just be that and reality is complicated. Either way promoting interventionism from a country with such a horrific record as the USA is a bad idea.

I could be being daft here but I thought USAID was a propaganda and infiltration tactic. Like a way for the USA to put pressure on other countries.

A techbro? Do you think I work for some big company? I am a PhD student motherfucker.

well that settles it then! you’re apparently such an authority.

I am someone who is paid to research uses and abuses of AI and LLMs in a specific field. So compared to randos on the internet like you, yeah I could be considered an authority. Chances are though you don’t actually care about any of this. You just want an excuse to hate on something you don’t like and don’t understand and blame it for already well established problems. How about instead you actually take some responsibility for the state of your fellow human beings and do something helpful instead of being a Luddite.

I am sure your right. Please tell me where I am wrong. I could always do to learn more about systems engineering.

ATM0?

We call animals he or she all the time. Ships in naval tradition are always called she. So probably it’s best to call grok she.

There is something I never understood about people who talk about scaling. Surely the best way to scale something is simply to have multiple instances with so many users on each one. You can then load balance between them. Why people feel the need to make a single instance scale to the moon I have no idea.

It’s like how you don’t need to worry about MS Word scaling because everyone has a copy on their own machine. You could very much do the same thing for cloud services.

I don’t trust OpenAI and try to avoid using them. That being said they have always been one of the more careful ones regarding safety and alignment.

I also don’t need you or openai to tell me that hallucinations are inevitable. Here have a read of this:

Title: Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models, Author: Xu et al., Date: 2025-02-13, url: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

Regarding resource usage: this is why open weights models like those made by the Chinese labs or mistral in Europe are better. Much more efficient and frankly more innovative than whatever OpenAI is doing.

Ultimately though you can’t just blame LLMs for people committing suicide. It’s a lazy excuse to avoid addressing real problems like how treats neurodivergent people. The same problems that lead to radicalization including incels and neo nazis. These have all been happening before LLM chatbots took off.

I am sure the terminal IDEs are great. I did used to play around with vim myself, and still use it for editing config files. I have had some success with Jet Brains as well. It’s a solid product.

I don’t really have the energy it takes to configure and learn all the stuff that’s needed for a terminal only setup these days. I guess I am just not as discerning as you are. I might try a ready made solution like LazyVim.

The 50s? Did LLMs exist in the 50s?

This is why safety mechanisms are being put in place, and AIs are being programmed that act less like sycophants.

So far there have been about two instances of this happening from two different companies. Already there is a push for better safety by these companies and AIs that act less like sycophants. So this isn’t the huge issue you are making it out to be. Unless you have more reports of this happening?

Ultimately crazy people gonna be crazy. If most humans are as you say then we have a more serious problem than anything an AI has done.

You’re the one who decided to attack me. The one who keeps coming back. So I could ask you the same question.

I was coding before AI. I used to be skeptical too. But sure put words in my mouth. Cunt.

Yeah editors are largely a matter of taste for some people. I won’t say VSCode is perfectly to my taste. The issue is it’s easy to use and works with just about every language, tool, and environment I need it to. Like I would probably prefer Zed or Neovim in some areas. Zed won’t work on one of my machines properly for some unknown reason. Neovim would require too much tweaking and learning before it could be useful. Even then I couldn’t guarantee I would actually be as productive as VSCode since not all the same tools are available. It might not work in every project I end up working on.

Essentially I have given up perfection in pursuit of convenience. If you have the time, patience, and the certainly of what you are working on then other IDEs and tooling can be much more tailored to you.

You know I actually used to think like you once. When I only wanted to be a professional code monkey. I am glad I don’t think like that anymore. There are better things to be than someone who’s job is just to write code. Code is after all a means to an end. Now when I write code it’s with an actual goal in mind.

Writing code is something that’s largely being automated by LLMs and AI. Some will still be needed, the best and the brightest of programmers, but I don’t think that’s you. Any who go learn cyber security or AI or something. You would make more money there anyway. If not your going to have to learn to work with LLMs, and to fix their code. Cause there sure aren’t going to be many programming jobs in the future that don’t involve using them.

Yeah pretty much. Wait until you hear about termux, screen, or byobu.

See you around.

In neovim you can have a terminal inside a buffer. So you can have a terminal and your code open side by side like you would in a modern IDE, or emacs for that matter.

Also good luck being unemployed in a few years!