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Deep dive into complex chemistry may be the most important thing in this thread. The bullshitters need more pushback like this, even though the effort involved means it can’t happen nearly as often as the bullshit. Thank you.

As the old saying goes, hope in one hand, Lisp in the other.

If you try it, I personally hope you’ve got a damned good garbage collector…

How would you audit a computer? Would they add USB-C ports to the cans?

User requests something that accommodates their actual use-case. Altman responds by dismissing it as “toys,” in that same cultivated faux-casual lowercase smarm that constitutes the bulk of his public identity. This man is not fit to be an executive.

I used to be a serious systems programmer like you once, then I took a prompt injection in the knee

They are practically handing you free leverage

I feel like it’s too much to hope that even the HN crowd have figured out Balaji S. is a more prolific bullshit machine than any LLM…

This is going to drag out for years, as such things do… and I would not at all be surprised if, a couple years in, Nvidia turns around and starts a PR blitz along the lines of, “tee-hee, that genAI bubble wasn’t nearly as big as we thought it would be! Look what happened to our revenue and stock price! Monopolists, lil ol’ us?!”

In other words, good on the prosecutors, but I feel like they’re only doing this now because of the mainstream hype that AI is inevitable and will conquer all industries.

300 lines of LLM-laundered Python in a trenchcoat

I store my unable right next to my unicycle :)