David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceedi

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and our very good friends and their predecessors have wanted to automate away the human decision bit since forever.

oh nah it's fine, LW is what it's for

with a moment's thought, it should be obvious that they are painfully aware, and with another moment's thought that that's where I found this out.

don’t wanna read this

what a coincidence!

absolutely appalling figuring it out, it really was "it can't be this stupid, I must be understanding it wrong"

then I got to the bash injection

and the proud "Generated by Claude Code"

and welp

TIL that "Aris Thorne" is a character name favoured by ChatGPT - which means its presence is a reliable slop tell, lol

like the dumbass-ray version of Ballard calling multiple characters variants on "Traven"

what to do with this information

SICP, not SCP

IoM cribs from the ENC, here's to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there ...

Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

The English national curriculum exposes every child to programming of some sort. 10 years ago it was 8yo kids learning Scratch, all of them.

I posted about it at the time: it turns out scratch is probably the answer, scratch is probably still the answer

in high school maths and computers they learn python.

my kid has no wish to become a professional dev, but can wield python as is useful to them.

OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.

it's the most aggressively useless way to add copilot to excel

"I love it!!"

there's having a favourite animal, then there's whatever this is

smarmy not as cryptic as he thought right-winger on lobsters who didn't quite hide his power level

I finally found which user we're talking about and I am quietly delighted at that smarmy fucker being directed to the fourth-floor egress.

edit: here's the long form mod last warning. You'll see in that thread my next prediction for ejection via the fourth floor, whose profile shows he's into crypto.

her favourite online handle is "the unit of caring" (or TUOC), which is an Eliezerism for money.

yes, instead they use Scott's and just keep typing forever

btw I read Said's responses to his banning and if that dude ever shows up here he's gone the second he's spotted

oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

that's what we used to say about crypto