Is… is it not standard to say “Three Letter Acronym (TLA)” the first time? What kind of monster?

Burn a what now?

That’s the other reason it’s a great analogy, Chef Mike is pretty central in a lot of kitchens.

This is a good analogy because microwaves are useful tools and are frequently found in restaurant kitchens. They obviously don’t replace the whole kitchen, but they absolutely provide value so long as you don’t overuse them.

At home, I generally heat leftovers most of the way in the microwave and then finish them in the air fryer or in a pan. It’s much faster than any other method and the quality is fine, just remember to stir periodically and use the right power level to ensure even heating.

I think LLMs can likewise be productively used as part of a process to get most of the way there, granted you finish it up manually. The problem comes when you try to make it the entire value stream. That’s like nuking something for 5 minutes and eating it immediately; you’ll have hot and cold spots and no texture.

What a time to be alive

Seemed more like the problem was the gaslighting than the documentation.

I think there’s a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn’t really incorrect, it’s just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.

You’re the one who asked to open a gate to the fifth dimension, you can’t then get upset that you broke 3+1 dimensional physics

Every system has limitations and flaws. The trick is tailoring your system elements to serve your use case.

Reminds me of a joke:

The faculty of the engineering department at a university are gifted a free vacation retreat. Once everyone is in their seats on the plane, the captain announces that the very plane they’re sitting in was designed and built by their own students.

Chaos breaks out as the passengers scramble for the exits, until only one professor remains, calmly and confidently poised in his seat.

Naturally, he is asked why he didn’t panic like his colleagues. With a knowing smile he replies “I know the abilities of my students, I’ve seen what they’re capable of accomplishing when they apply themselves. I can assure you this piece of shit will never start.”

Latin has more rules, but they’re more utilitarian than fancy. Latin rules are there to make sure you understand exactly what is being said. French rules are there to make everything elegant and confusing, like high fashion.

I just have some high school Latin from long ago, but if you parse “fancy” as “ornamental at the expense of utility”, then I think it’s a fair description.

That sort of limited trading does happen for some very niche products that don’t have a lot of potential buyers and sellers.

It’s actually way more common than you’d think. Trading is frequently internalized in order to maximize arbitration profits.

I think brainstorming is specifically a group activity. When you do it alone, it’s just called “thinking”. The point of brainstorming is to bring in ideas you thought of individually to co-mingle with the ideas other people thought of individually.

Double it

Is it? He looks very different

Typically, ‘complex’ refers to fundamental properties and ‘complicated’ refers to distracting details. It is indeed very complicated (loopholes and such), just not terribly complex.

AIs were elected to public office 18 years before the first one gets citizenship

Don’t forget the sigils. If you don’t align the right rocks with the right sigils then it won’t work