David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English7·8 小时前and n=16 handily beats the usual promptfondler n=1
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?English27·1 天前youtube comment:
Zeppelins are here to stay! After all, we still have the technology for rigid airship full of hydrogen cells, you can’t unring this bell!
(I have pretty good YT commenters actually. Because I moderate all comments, because this is fuckin AI.)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?English17·1 天前the dream of robot slaves is too powerful to suppress permanently, but it’ll be one heck of an AI winter
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPto MoreWrite@awful.systems•draft Pivot: "AI is here to stay"English6·2 天前It’s a tricky one, because a lot of ML these days is transformer-based, because transformers are unreasonably effective, and many things a transformer can do well, an LLM can do okay at. (e.g. translation, transcription, OCR …)
A lot of people are super convinced by an impressive demo. We have computers you can just talk to now! That’s legit amazing, actually! The whole field of NLP is 80% solved! The other 20% is where it’s a lying fuckin idiot and that’s probably not fixable …
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPto MoreWrite@awful.systems•draft Pivot: "AI is here to stay"English5·2 天前ooh good, i’ll add that generative AI will likely become as radioactive to the public as crypto is.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outragedEnglish13·2 天前it’s near as joyous as the tesla subs
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?English11·2 天前if you want to do stream of consciousness creative writing, we have the MoreWrite community for stuff you want opinions on and the WriteFreely at https://gibberish.awful.systems/ - if that second one sounds useful, PM @self for an account
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?English12·2 天前discuss.
per the sidebar: This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English8·2 天前it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. You’re welcome.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4·2 天前In past tech bubbles, it was basically the VCs, the media hypesters and the liars in the companies. So the right people.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outragedEnglish19·2 天前don’t forget to press the button lots! bet they’re using it as a metric!
“yeah tried it real hard like you said boss. all its ideas were bad and i rejected them, but it’ll get there! stand strong! diamond hands!”
he appears to have started like this - i hear he was like this at uni too
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crewEnglish18·3 天前you’re not even scamming them! you’re merely the tax collector for BRUTE MATERIAL REALITY
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Venture capital is lending money against video cardsEnglish7·4 天前basically. Nvidia sometimes has off years, where a processor generation doesn’t work out. Unfortunately, this one’s coincided with a stupid bubble. So they’re shoving out number cruncher cards which are at the limits of what you can do with stacking up the previous generation of chips, and the cards are crappy and have a likely lifetime in months - because they correctly estimate their market doesn’t care.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for itEnglish6·5 天前we hope you find a more suitable Lemmy community to post to.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for itEnglish12·7 天前when I put a pull request in my vein and I tell you things aren’t quite the same when I’m rushing on my run and I feel just like Altman’s son
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for itEnglish141·7 天前* adderall
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025English4·8 天前I dunno, Diz and I both pissed them off a whole lot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at workEnglish10·11 天前WE HAD THAT PRECISE FUCKING GUY
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