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Depends on what you mean by "fanboys". No, the hype isn't as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren't going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.

But, I'm still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn't take nearly as long as the work itself.

Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.

I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.

You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:

B: "Go make this thing!"

D: "What thing?"

B: "Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!"

D: "Well, we can't just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?"

B: "I don't know. That's your job to figure out, right?"

That's how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.

marketing has gotten a lot better in the intervening years.

You mean like this?

Remember, IBM is the company that fucked over CentOS when they acquired it, and then tried to block their forked OSs from getting updates.

IBM's acquisitions over the last couple of decades have ended in sadness, so I wouldn't trust that company to take out my trash, much less "secure enterprise open-source software".

And shit like that is why the Fediverse will ultimately fail.

OpenAI already at the stage of begging for a government bailout. So, they are in the process of imploding, and Hegseth will come crawling back to Anthropic, anyway.

People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It's gone down since then, but only because email isn't that important of a communication platform nowadays.

Bad actors attack with the tools they've got. If it's not protected, it's exploitable until it is.

At first, I thought this was the next step after the whole AI minister is preggers with 83 AI babies scam, but realized that was Albania. Still, "non-human corporations" is close enough on the corruption scale.

No mob is good at nuance, which is frustrating. Black and white mentality bullshit.

Its very hard to keep up with what supports what.

They may or may not be the case, but nobody is even trying. Support the base protocol for other platforms and make specific hacks for each one to fix differences. I would at the very least expect read-only support, with some banner that says "this post is from platform X and comments are currently not supported".

I keep hearing excuses like "PeerTube can't link with Lemmy, because then it would have to download the video files", instead of just implementing the obvious solution of NOT downloading the video files and let the parent platform handle it. There's too many purists that try to implement the perfect solution and say it's impossible because it doesn't handle the edge cases.

Even Reddit from years ago spent a lot of effort making sure thumbnails were extracted from many many different platforms, whenever you submitted a post. It didn't matter that there were a lot of different video or news platforms. It worked for almost all of the cases, and if it didn't, it got fixed pretty fast. No shared protocol for that, just hardcoded lists of domains and URLs.

Doesn't matter. Pre-ordering is stupid on any platform.

But, yeah, looks like this isn't a PS exclusive after all, thank god.

The fact that the fediverse is young and evolving is what excites me about it.

ActivityPub has been around for 8 years, and IMO, the Fediverse is not evolving. It is not federating the way ActivityPub was designed for.

I want Mastodon threads in Lemmy. I want PeerTube subscriptions in Lemmy. I want to subscribe to Pixelfed users in Lemmy. I want all of these different ActivityPub communities to talk to each other.

I want to go to my front page and have it be the ultimate front page for me. Why should I be forced to use different pieces of software that pretend to communicate with the same protocol?! Lemmy is supposed to be a news aggregator, so fucking aggregate!