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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.

[–] Tiffany1994@lemmy.cafe 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We are having AIs having mental breakdowns before GTA 6

[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago

Shit at the rate MasterCard and Visa and Stripe want to censor everything and parent adults we might not even ever get GTA6.

I'm tired man.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're not a species you jumped calculator, you're a collection of stolen thoughts

[–] DancesOnGraves@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure most people I meet ammount to nothing more than a collection of stolen thoughts.

"The LLM is nothing but a reward function."

So are most addicts and consumers.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

We did it fellas, we automated depression.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't you use Basic for that?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why wouldn’t your grandmother be a bicycle?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Wheel transplants are expensive.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

BASIC 2.0 is limited and I am trying some demo effects.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

from the depths of my memory, once you got a complex enough BASIC project you were doing enough PEEKs and POKEs to just be writing assembly anyway

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Sure, mostly to make up for the shortcomings of BASIC 2.0. You could use a bunch of different approaches for easier programming, like cartridges with BASIC extensions or other utilities. The C64 BASIC for example had no specific audio or graphics commands. I just do this stuff out of nostalgia. For a few hours I'm a kid again, carefree, curious, amazed. Then I snap out of it and I'm back in WWIII, homeless encampments, and my failing body.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

That is so awesome. I wish I'd been around when that was a valuable skill, when programming was actually cool.

[–] Mohamad20ZX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

After What Microsoft Did To My Back On 2019 I know They Have Gotten More Shady Than Ever Lets Keep Fighting Back For Our Freedom Clippy Out

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