On a personal sidenote

do you keep count/track? the moleskine must be getting full!

rip [SA]HatfulOfHollow

I also did some digging, and this appears to be a profile matching that poster (username, displayed email)

note not only the massive uptick in recent commit counts on the github, but also the complete lack of any related domain experience in what they’re posting to the git list about

much as the rules here, the only answer is to keep laughing these fucking people out of the room

mmm, word suggestion for this kind: hypeslopper?

Example use: “from a hypeslopper such as this”

found new potential eye muscle strain material

“we must fuck around with the essential basic components a significant part of modern software exists on, because AI and agents and MCP”

(e: first saw here)

also great: the promptfondlers unrapidly rediscovering why source control management exists and is desired

Also, the cat doesn’t appear to be polydactyl

truth in advertising: they’re hinting what the music will sound like

thescream.tiff

I would’ve stan’d syslog-ng but they’ve also been pulling some fuckery with docs again lately that’s making me anxious, so I’m very :|||||

nasb, new torres piece out, promising title and opening

(I’ll have to read it after done with my present other currency-related diversions. old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud.gif)

mozilla has for years had a habit of tailchasing some utterly fucking weird shit instead of focusing on their core business, and this feels very much like part of that. but fucking still

prompt injection phish by email

so glad these things have a solid security model and this totally won’t result in a scrambled half-assed fix

and upon hearing the lesson, the journeyman went to the pub

goodhart’s law’s zombie era

it’s lesswrong, the list is lengthy and tedious

really, really thoroughly baptise. not just drops but fistfuls of water. the more water the more holy. the servers will love being really holy!

I’ve been making casual observation how a number of the adhd people I know to have addiction tendencies tend to get real into prompts, but hadn’t observed the lootbox thing

that’s going into the ponder bucket.

the astute reader may note a certain part of my comment addressed a particular aspect of this

this brooks no argument and it’s clear we should immediately throw all available resources at ai so as to get infinite improvement!!~

(I even heard some UN policy wonk spout the AGI line recently 🙄)

as one of the people representing the “hero group” (for lack of a better term) your comment references: eh. I didn’t start out with all this knowledge and experience. it built up over time.

it’s more about the mode of thinking and how to engage with a problem, than it is about specific “highly skilled” stuff. the skill and experience help/contribute, they refine, they assist in filtering

the reason I make this comment is because I think it’s valuable that anyone who can do the job well gets to do the thing, and that it’s never good to gatekeep people out. let’s not unnecessarily contribute to imposter syndrome