Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Ran across a pretty solid sneer: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too.
Found a particularly notable paragraph near the end, focusing on the people focusing on āprompt engineeringā:
You want my take, Iād personally go further and say the people who canāt perform tasks without AI will wind up borderline-unemployable once this bubble bursts - theyāre gonna need a highly expensive chatbot to do anything at all, theyāre gonna be less productive than AI-abstaining workers whilst falsely believing theyāre more productive, theyāre gonna be hated by their coworkers for using AI, and theyāre gonna flounder if forced to come up with a novel/creative idea.
All in all, any promptfondlers still existing after the bubble will likely be fired swiftly and struggle to find new work, as they end up becoming significant drags to any companyās bottom line.
Promptfondling really does feel like the dumbest possible middle ground. If youāre willing to spend the time and energy learning how to define things with the kind of language and detail that allows a computer to effectively work on them, we already have tools for that: theyāre called programming languages. Past a certain point trying to optimize your ānatural languageā prompts to improve your odds from the LLM gacha youāre doing the digital equivalent sot trying to speak a foreign language by repeating yourself louder and slower.