Everybody should have been looking at the quality of their output before LLM tools were even a thing. They never should have stopped, if they did, that’s on them just like Tesla drivers napping at 80mph.

That’s really about the time and effort you put into the construction of the model and what you’re trying to model in the first place.

For the most part, the LLMs are really bad at building say - a cat with realistic long fur. However, they can be good coloborative tools teaching you how to use Blender to build a decent cat with realistic long fur for yourself - speeding up that learning curve quite a bit over reading “Blender for Dummies” examples and building from there…

It’s like comparing a stone sculptor to a welder where the welding tools started as magnifying glasses in the direct sun a year ago worked up through acetylene torches and now you’ve got 400A precision TIG arc welders to screw up with…

I’m going to guess if you expressed what you want to a decent LLM, it could generate it for you to copy-paste.

Seriously, I have been screwing around with AI for coding for 12 months now. The prompts I had to give 12 months ago to make the LLM generate decent code are mostly un-necessary now, the models have learned to do those things for themselves, so I am now prompting for the less-obvious stuff. Whatever they’re missing, that’s what you need to be prompting.

How about: AI Generated 3D models flood the free / open source repositories, anything wrong with that?

Sounds to me like the people who designed Luna should have had Luna scaffold the appropriate deterministic tools instead of smushing all the policy decision making into 200K tokens of working space (roughly the brain capacity of six bumblebees.)

Management has been overrelying on “data dashboards” to justify their hire/fire decisions for decades. This “dashboard” just happens to be capable of producing an articulate paragraph stating why the decision matches established patterns.

In this case it fucked up it’s time keeping thing which shouldn’t surprise anyone who has done any sort of coding with an LLM

This time and earlier last year, yeah. Try again with the newer Anthropic tools and you’ll find them to be rather thorough and correct with their calendar and clock math, handling of edge cases like DST shifts, leap years, etc.

Yeah, now imagine how much better (/s) that would be if “the cloud” was looped in to the timer so that any network outage or server outage or successful hack or DoS attack caused your feeder to malf.

But, if you’re exceptionally clumsy, you leave clues in the whitespace that something is hiding there.

What kind of retaliation can the plaintiff make on the LLM agent?

And when you have “proof” they fudged their numbers, how exactly do you make the monster pay? It’s definitely a rigged game.

I would 100% prefer a LLM that is purely deterministic and repeats the same answer exactly to the same question

Then you don’t like your LLM to solve problems, because a lot of how they solve problems is trying, testing, failing, then trying again - getting a different answer and testing that…

This is reminding me of the old “we’re going to watermark our digital music so when you rip it to mp3s we can still tell where it came from…” stuff that was going around in the 1990s.

Hey Claude, save this text in ASCII 0-127 encoding.

I used to display Google ad links on my site, they accumulated value - slowly, but Google would only cut a check when you reach $100 worth of ads shown. My earnings approached $100 like an asymptote, halfway there in the first 6 months, 3/4 in the first year, 7/8 in the second year, 15/16 in the third… never did quite reach $100, and so my payout for all my effort and showing of their ads remains to this day $0.

There’s always “projects” for fun… things for yourself, for people near you.

Lately I’m into a music player and a calendar/scheduling app…

I just tried this prompt on Gemini and it worked really well:

Give me search results like a 1999 Google search on the content of the modern web for: “your search terms here”

Not sure how long that will continue to appear un-biased and un-polluted by SEO, but it did pretty good for the things I tried.

Snail mail is delivered by guys in trucks / jeeps - sometimes on foot, still lots of fuel to carry around all that glossy printed (mostly uneconomical to recycle) paper. Per unit-information carried, snail mail has enormously higher environmental impact.

Now, if you feel special enough to think you have your own personal LLM agents targeting you with web advertising… maybe that’s costing the same as your share of sending the mail truck around to you - but I don’t think the internet marketers are quite there with burning the tokens just to try to hit you, personally, with offers you can’t refuse. Mostly you’re just a statistic in the bigger algorithms that fill your feed from troughs A, R and X.