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@gray17@mastodon.social
2026-07-18 15:48:13

gen-AI outputs tend to be locally plausible but globally incoherent, because there's no intention, no viewpoint that motivates the assembly of the parts.
with a little practice, people can get pretty good at sensing "the vibes are wrong", and from there pick out specific details that are suggestive of gen-AI. note that this process goes from global to local, but the explanations tend to be just the local, because it's hard to explain "the vibes are wrong"

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-05-07 12:00:18

Hmmm... How likely are platform specific memory safety issues in ngscopeclient/libscopehal? I'm thinking "not very" since almost all of the OS-specific stuff code is in third party portability libraries.
I ask because right now we do all of our CI builds as optimized release builds with the intention of creating nightly builds other people can download and play with.
But I want to do ASAN debug builds to catch memory safety issues during tests (there was at least on…