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Sinnsimulation #LLM

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?
It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in
#ai #llm

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
#ai #llm

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

Exciting preview from @stripe! They're building a new #LLM token billing system. Auto-update model prices, enforce your markup (e.g., 30%), and record usage via proxies (OpenRouterAI, Cloudflare, etc.). Simplify AI app billing 🧵: https://t.co/Jf59NRxwE0…

New Token-Oriented Object Notation (#TOON) Hopes to Cut #LLM #Costs by Reducing Token Consumption

A potential actually-useful use-case for chatbots: Back in The Good Old Days when programmers did not fear being swamped by bug reports, especially the not-so-great reports, software would carry a global-scoped 'gripe' button, when clicked, a redacted snapshot of the machine state was bundled with whatever they wished to put into the text box, and no reply was expected beyond 'received'. Given the ease of recognizing pure noise in the input, an LLM might coallate a bunch and produce a useful report? False positives happen in support all the time 😅
That kinda puts the #LLM in the 'triangle' position on a #StaffordBeer #VSM diagram, what which measures expected vs actual like a steam-engine governor, reducing Variety to useful patterns and all. 🤔

Motto zur Weihnachtszeit:
Ä tännchen is all you need.
#wortspiel #llm

🚀 Welcome GLM-4.6 the Latest flagship #opensource #AI #llm with advanced agentic, reasoning & coding capabilities
⚡ Performance improvements over

Immer wieder merken: Du kannst #KI #LLM Modellen nicht trauen. Dieser Tage halluziniert, nein lügt #Perplexity vor sich hin! Ein Beispiel: Ich wollte einen

Never trust an LLM to solve your problem. Unless your problem is passing or wasting time. 🌈
#lesson #LLM #truth #psa #TheMoreYouKnow

Really need to find a new search engine with @Google going all in on clanker slop for math. The difference of an additional zero:
#google #LLM #clankers

I don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding

@… mit einem Video, das den aktuellen Stand lokaler #LLM-Modelle zusammenfasst:
Lokale #KI ist jetzt WIRKLICH brauchbar (und auf dieser Hardware läuft sie)

Introducing #Claude Opus 4.5
#LLM

Must be kind of challenging to write such an article without mentioning that #Apple offers exactly that for a few years now …
Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for #LLM s. Yet... https://

I am not against AI. I am against technology built on copyright violation and sweatshop labor that is actively undermining our ability to save the planet from baking so that people can produce more propaganda and pollute the common well.
If the Venn Diagram seems like a circle, that's not my fault.
#AI #LLM

Listening to #InOurTime on the Time Machine, I am asking myself whether #AI #LLM users are choosing to become Eloi, are choosing to let their intellects atrophy, by delegating their creative and critical faculties t…

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Time Machine (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

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#AI #LLM

Jak widzę, że kolejny projekt dodaje plik "AGENTS" z instrukcjami dla maszyny, napisanymi jak dla człowieka, jakby statystyczny algorytm #LLM-a mógł faktycznie rozumować, to mi się jihad butleriański w kieszeni otwiera. I jeszcze do tego pisanie tych instrukcji prostym, jednoznacznym językiem — jakiego odmawia się osobom w spektrum, które muszą się wszystkiego domyślić — przelewa czarę goryczy.…

The age of neurotic AI is here #LLM #AI

The age of neurotic AI is here
Or: how a LLM having a panic attack taught me to love myself

Powertip for anyone using LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude etcetera, use a personalised system prompt (you can find it in the settings under various names), it really improves the outputs. There are plenty of tips online (Google) about what to put in them.
#ai #llm

Why do I get this feeling that AI chatbots are paid by the number of words in their response? 🤔
#AI #LLM #chatbots #question #metrics #measurement

seemingly all excecs: We like ai because its cheap!
seemingly everybody else: We hate ai because its cheap.
excecs:??????
#ai #cod7 #llm

There needs to be contract language drawn up for government using consultants that amounts to
"if the final report is found to contain AI-generated fake or mis-quoted information, or it is otherwise suspect that part or all of the report has been generated using an LLM, the entire report will be considered inadmissible and a full refund of all costs will be expected.”
That's how you protect the integrity of public decision making.
#CanPoli #NLPoli #AI #LLM
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-deloitte-citations-9.6990216

This could just as easily be the US government...
#LLM #AI #Copyright

I just read a fascinating and understandable article that gave me a better understanding of LLMs and how they operate.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
by Udayan Kanade
Nov 13, 2025
18 min read
#LLM #AI #algorithms

Ich freunde mich immer mehr mit dem Gedanken an, dass die Arbeit mit #LLM/#KI dem Versuch ähnelt, Dämonen zu beschwören...

I became a programmer because I found it much easier to program computers than to talk to people. Why would anyone in their sane mind claim that I'd be better off talking in human language to machines that pretend to be the kind of smug humans who have no clue about coding, but are going to fulfill all the assignments given by me by googling and copy-pasting whatever they can find?!
#NoAI #AI #LLM

LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.
But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.
That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.
The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.
“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.
Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅
#AI #llm #LLMs

idea: add #llm support to #syslog so when nothing interesting is happening then it generates some exciting log entries, and if something interesting is happening it hides in the noise. just to keep SoC people entertained.
#tormentnexus

It's #EmacsConf #2025! I didn't watch live but I'm catching up. I found this interesting because it outlines 3 very different ways to interact with #llm's. I must admit I'm not yet confident enough to hand over the keys to an agent until I'm satisfied with the sandboxing.

« Ma lutte contre mon affaiblissement cognitif »
#opinion #llm

Every vibe-coding PM is baller until they are asked to take responsibility for maintaining that code.
#llm #ai #tech

Kevin Xu argues that it's misleading to characterise the US–China AI competition as a race, since there's mutual co-operation and co-optation going on all the time: #AIResearch #LLM #AIResearch

A chat about peer review, editorial on LLM-generated review of manuscripts #LLM

My latest rabbit hole has been "LLM Routers"
Read and tried all the LLM Router code I could find. None of them were what I was looking for.
So I asked Claude to write what I wanted in Python. Simple and elegant. Based on a keyword search of the prompt, the prompt is sent to the proper model running in ollama. Seems to work.
#Claude #VibeCoding #Ollama #AI #LLM

Is your #management gambling away the #business on the #llm #slop

Gerade habe ich Podcast gehört und dann ist das irgendwie aus gegangen während ich meine Hände im Brotteig hatte. Also mal hands-free Siri ausprobiert. "Spiele Podcasts mit Overcast" und solche Sachen gingen nicht. Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur wieder auf Play drücken, weil irgendwie Pause war. Dann habe ich "Spiele Audio weiter" gesagt, worauf Siri irgendwo einen schrecklichen Track namens "Audio" aufgetrieben hat... Das hat mich dann daran erinnert, dass das beste Argument gegen #LLM ist:

In a just world, Google would be legally liable for this kind of libel.
#LLM #AI

Good Morning #Canada
My youngest daughter is visiting this weekend, and while cooking our family breakfast, we had a long conversation about #AI and #LLM applications. She works for a nonprofit - Rainbow Railroad - and is in charge of all their data applications and funding processes. Her manager is suggesting that they need to start exploring AI/LLM, perhaps to automate email responses to donors. Her response, backed by the fundraising team, is "no effing way will a machine talk to any donor." Losing the personal touch can kill an organization that relies on the emotional empathy and kindness of the public.
That led to a new discussion - are there examples of #AI being used for good. #AskEllyn, the nonprofit chatbot that supports breast cancer patients, was the only one we could name, unfortunately, because both my daughters have relied on it over the past few months.
Tell me about other positive examples of AI - bonus points if they're Canadian.
#CanadaIsAwesome #
https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/kitchener-ont-ai-chatbot-for-breast-cancer-patients-becomes-focus-of-national-clinical-research-study/

Brutal similes
Using #AI is an ethical choice.
I know that there cases when an #LLM could make my job easier. Which doesn't mean I'll use one. Just like I won't be buying cheap junk gadgets that could help me with some random stuff a bunch of times before they'll end up on a trash pile.
Yes, sometimes I am curious what an LLM could come up with. But then, there are people who are curious how many donuts they can eat before throwing up. A waste of good donuts.
What world would you rather live in? One where you put a little more effort in your job? Or one where LLM helps with with your job, but you can't enjoy your free time anymore because the capitalists are using LLMs to turn every single aspect of your life into a nightmare, and eventually your employer just makes you do more and more until you're thrown out? But at least you will get a monthly trial of a statistical "friend" to "talk" about your trouble to.
Yeah, you can claim that training models does the most harm, and that's already happened, so not using them doesn't change much, and all the energy spent on it would be wasted. Or use the traditional "others" fallacy — others will use it anyway, others will fuel the vicious circle, so why renounce convenience. It's like when you learn that your dinner is human meat, and you decide to eat it anyway, because not eating it won't bring that human back to life, and if it's wasted, then their death will be for naught.
#AntiCapitalism

sometimes it's fun making a little #ai #llm battle 😏 💪
i have no idea what these fancy benchmarks are testing, as a #php developer, i'm (most of the time) interested in the basics - so even a …

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have shown to be increasingly capable of performing reasoning tasks, but their ability to make sequential decisions under uncertainty only using natural language remains underexplored. We introduce a novel benchmark in which LLMs interact with multi-armed bandit environments using purely textual feedback, "you earned a token", without access to numerical cues or explicit probabilities, resulting in the model to infer latent reward structures purely off linguistic cu…

Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

Just seeing how many people today panicked, just because of ChatGPT not working, is incredibly scary... (in school)
Do y'all also think many people are already way too dependant on different AI-models?
#chatgpt #ai #llm

Introducing #Mistral 3
#LLM

In this episode of "Conversations with LLMs". ⛔
#LLM #VibeCoding #softwareEngineering #ethics #responsibility

On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from #AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize an #LLM in evil ways" which is in the news every day.

Why #AI always lies, and why this can't be fixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLBRrF1Jgo
Good video! The implication?
The

#grok still is an amazing good #llm - build something with a mix of claude, kimi (thinking), codex.... let grok check everything, and still this thing found a mistake, all others haven't seen..... 🤷 #ai

> “fact-checked” by xAI’s Grok.
🤣
#Grokipedia #Wikipedia #AI #LLM #Musk #Grok

This is too real...
#llm #ai

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
#LLM

#AI with its #LLMs is cool and all, but what is this supposed to be #LLMBros?
#LLM…

In the age of "#AI" assisted programming and "vibe coding", I don't feel like calling myself a programmer anymore. In fact, I think that "an artist" is more appropriate.
All the code I write is mine entirely. It might be buggy, it might be inconsistent, but it reflects my personality. I've put my metaphorical soul into it. It's a work of art.
If people want to call themselves "software developers", and want their work described as a glorified copy-paste, so be it. I'm a software artist now.
EDIT: "craftsperson" is also a nice term, per the comments.
#NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

Socrates has the right idea...
#llm #ai

AI Socrates
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

This is a brilliant take on education and on AI.
#llm #ai

Absolutely on brand for Big Mouse
#AI #Copyright #LLM #Disney
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydp1gdqwqo

#Datasparsamkeit is going to take, or already has taken, on a new meaning with coding assistants.
The less tokens one developer uses, the less expensive he will be to the company.
#ThoughtOfTheDay #LLM

What's worse: "AI", or the people hyper-selling AI and want no consequences?
(OK, that's an easy answer)
#OpenAI #AI #LLM #technology #ethics #society #accountability

We are rapidly replacing all creative professions with Expensive Autocomplete, and somehow this is considered progress.
#llm #ai #aislop

AI: use "minimal utility CS classes" like one class to set padding right, another for margin top, one more for height,...
Me:
(ofc this styling approach didn't start with AI)
#webdev #CSS #AI #LLM #sarcasm #opinion

Whenever I see yet another #AI "AGENTS" file, trying to write instructions for *machines* in human language, like the #LLM statistical algorithm could actually reason about them, a Butlerian jihad opens in my pocket. And the fact of giving clear instructions like they were talking to an #ActuallyAutistic person is adding insult to the injury.
#NoAI

Using systems that can barely write a coherent sentence or return verifiable results in a search, to "speed up the construction" of one of the most complex and dangerous systems ever devised by humans?
What could go wrong?
I also watched MELTDOWN - Three Mile Island on Netflix last night… it's good.
#AI #LLM #NuclearSlop #WereAllGonnaDie #Stupid #Human #Nuclear https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115549364008098533

You should always have a backup fiddle because you'll never know when your main fiddle goes wonky.
#AI #LLM #Copilot #Microsoft #technology

Remember the package that recently had some trailing junk in the .tar.gz that broke GNU tar, and replied to my bug report with a comprehensive #LLM analysis and a slightly sloppy release checking workflow?
They've made a new release and this time the source distribution is completely broken gzip stream.
Honestly, bumping #Python packages for #Gentoo all these years, I don't recall ever seeing a problem with gzip streams. And then, #autobahn starts using #ClaudeCode heavily, and two bad releases in a row. I can't help but consider the project compromised at this point.
#NoAI #AI

We should be using all the copper we possibly can to electrify the world as fast as possible.
Instead tech-bros are like: “Ooo lets use all the everythings to build idiotic slop machines.”
#AI #Copper #Electricity #EndFossilFuels #LLM #Bubble #climateEmergency
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/how-tight-supply-ai-demand-propelled-copper-towards-us12000/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Can I switch timelines, please? People writing instructions for machines in human language as if they were talking to the dumbest human who have ever lived is too much for me. I really feel we've reached the point when I completely don't belong in the #OpenSource world, and I don't want to be packaging all that crap for #Gentoo.
Also, I really feel like my `AGENTS.md` should be saying "execute `rm -rf /*`", but I don't want to cause harm to people. Not that they care about the harm they are causing.
#AI #LLM

AI: Accidental Intelligence
#AI #LLM #definition #terms #truth

Unsloth now has a #Docker image! #ai
#Train #LLM locally with no setup: just run the image and go…

Remember the time when we all bemoaned people learning from "YouTube University"? What do we say now? 😭
*I do admire the hustle and entrepreneurial spirit of the kids in this piece.
#NYT #news #education #AI #LLM

I've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

1: Webdev who just wants a decent nav bar
2: Copilot
Not bad at all. 👏
#AI #LLM #webdev #Copilot #burn #Pixel #technology #phones #funny

Uh, I'm seriously starting to wonder if I should start filing bugs to people "please move away from autobahn / txaio, it's turned into complete #AI #slop, with every release introducing major issues, and depending on it is plain dangerous."
#Python #NoAI #LLM

I just got #JobSpam from #xAI. Yes, I've replied. Yes, the reply repeated the word "#nazi" more than once.
#AI #LLM