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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.

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  • ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those "open source" projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.

    Here's a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI

    I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they'll be making a mistake

    dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool

    so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn't all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.

    around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it's about AI becoming superhuman

    the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great

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  • this is not debate club, per the sidebar

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • this user has been removed for commenting without reading the article

    being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • and n=16 handily beats the usual promptfondler n=1

  • ‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

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  • youtube comment:

    Zeppelins are here to stay! After all, we still have the technology for rigid airship full of hydrogen cells, you can't unring this bell!

    (I have pretty good YT commenters actually. Because I moderate all comments, because this is fuckin AI.)

  • ‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

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  • the dream of robot slaves is too powerful to suppress permanently, but it'll be one heck of an AI winter

  • Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

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  • it's near as joyous as the tesla subs

  • did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?

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  • if you want to do stream of consciousness creative writing, we have the MoreWrite community for stuff you want opinions on and the WriteFreely at https://gibberish.awful.systems/ - if that second one sounds useful, PM @self for an account

  • did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?

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  • discuss.

    per the sidebar: This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. You're welcome.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • In past tech bubbles, it was basically the VCs, the media hypesters and the liars in the companies. So the right people.

  • Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

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  • don't forget to press the button lots! bet they're using it as a metric!

    "yeah tried it real hard like you said boss. all its ideas were bad and i rejected them, but it'll get there! stand strong! diamond hands!"

  • Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

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  • you're not even scamming them! you're merely the tax collector for BRUTE MATERIAL REALITY

  • Venture capital is lending money against video cards

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  • basically. Nvidia sometimes has off years, where a processor generation doesn't work out. Unfortunately, this one's coincided with a stupid bubble. So they're shoving out number cruncher cards which are at the limits of what you can do with stacking up the previous generation of chips, and the cards are crappy and have a likely lifetime in months - because they correctly estimate their market doesn't care.

  • Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

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  • we hope you find a more suitable Lemmy community to post to.

  • Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

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  • when I put a pull request in my vein and I tell you things aren't quite the same when I'm rushing on my run and I feel just like Altman's son

  • Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

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  • * adderall

  • The rise of Whatever

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