"LLMs work (somewhat) for coding computer programs. As everyone knows this is the highest form of human endeavor—unsurpassed by any other lesser activity such as project management, design, art or writing. Therefore LLMs will excel in every other field."
I really believe this is the crux understanding why so many programmers (including good programmers) fall for it in a way that can only be described as a cult, were any criticism is not only not allowed but reflexively is seen as either laughable or belligerent.
Anyway, LLMs are good* at writing code because writing code is easy and highly repetitive and doesn't actually take a lot of skill; unless it's novel ways to write code which LLMs cannot do.
Taking this as a sign LLMs can do other "lesser" activities is saying a lot about the hubris of programmers and not a lot of the capabilities of LLMs.
*for some definitions of "good"
People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste an…
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Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-07/…
Another related study I just saw on here as well:
https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown/115268906723748097
The theme of "response is casually connected to the input via a recall/prediction mechanism that bears no resemblance to most colloquial definitions of reasoning" is strong.
@… @… Ah but the problem is each word individually isn’t enough, looking up the definitions of mountain and top may not lead you to the same conclusion as the general consensus definition for “mountain top”, meaning we’ll also need to link to every …
The Swedish energy regulator has approved standardised definitions for flexibility products. This makes it easier for suppliers and aggregators to optimise customer devices for local grid needs. The more flexibility offered through these market mechanisms, the lower the costs for all energy system users.
I’d like to think that I have a really good grasp of English, but I still have to look up the definitions of ‘alternate’ vs. ‘alternative’ to know which one to correctly use.
#languages #linguistics #EnglishLanguage
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116035760465643672
"Different definitions of opt-in" is very "she means yes if she says no"-coded
GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.
Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a max…
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What LLMs and the Turing test¹ tell us: most of us not only are² stochastic parrots³ but are also fine with that – otherwise we would not happily use LLMs to produce all the output we communicate to others.
One could frame this as “insult to humanity” but I prefer to call it telling.
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¹the Turing test does _not_ measure “intelligence”. I recommend to read the original paper:
I may still feel like crap and not have gotten enough sleep due to coughing, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna relax and play some quality* games this weekend. The MiSTer is running perfectly and the PVM is still working like a champ.
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GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.
Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a max…
I see that the European Commission is adopting that well-tested method for "simplification", called "let's rewrite all basic definitions in the law from scratch and throw 10 years of court rulings out of the window, so we can start anew!".
https://…
Also, you can tell semiconductor people are a bit off WRT their definitions of "normal, safe chemistry".
I recently finished pilot testing of a safer alternative to an existing process that uses HF.
As in, HF is *the safer alternative chemistry*.
Requests are being spread on fediverse to use hashtags not inline but at the end, because screen readers. I am aiming for accessibility.
At the same time, I like using hypertext in full and not as a digital copy of printed materials, and highly value terms being links when first used, not with the main expectation that they are followed, but for clarification (eg. of definitions) and semantic linking.
Can and should I indicate such "soft" (non-intrusive) links in HTML?
Gradualist descriptionalist set theory
David Simmons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27077 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.27077
arXiv:2603.27077v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a formal language GDST (gradualist descriptionalist set theory) with a family of interpretations indexed by ordinals, as well as a sublanguage NMID (the language of not necessarily monotonic inductive definitions), and show that the assertion that all propositions in NMID have well-defined truth values is equivalent to the existence for each $k \in \mathbb N$ of a sequence of ordinals $\eta_0 < . . . < \eta_k$ such that for each $i < k$, $\eta_i$ is $\eta_{i 1}$-reflecting, a notion we introduce which implies being $\Pi_n$-reflecting for all $n \in \mathbb N$ (and in particular being admissible and recursively Mahlo).
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