AI is a D1 glazer
2026-01-20 18:38:20.120799+01 by
Dan Lyke
2 comments
Dave Rupert
@davatron5000@mastodon.social
My son’s friend thinks it’s cool I work at MSFT and was asking me a lot about
AI. I explained “Your generation has a unique challenge that my generation didn’t have to
deal with: Figuring out if the computer is lying to you…”
Dave Rupert
@davatron5000@mastodon.social
I explained a recent experiment that showed how if you give an LLM something
you wrote and say “review this paper I wrote” it comes back with mostly positive feedback.
If you say “review this paper I received/found”, it’s much more critical.
Dave Rupert
@davatron5000@mastodon.social
And my son’s friend’s response was:
“AI is a D1 glazer, bro.”
And I think that’s very funny.
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#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-21 15:49:43.407702+01 by:
markd
> unique challenge that my generation didn’t have to deal with: Figuring out if the computer is lying to you…
I blame Xcode as a counter-example. It's been lying to me for YEARS. "oh no your IBOutlet/Actions aren't
connected!! oh wait if you visit your xib file I'll fill them in correctly" "oh, you have an error HERE" (actually,
thanks to Swift and Swift UI, the actual error is a dozen lines away". "You have uncommited changes here
here and here because I'm too dumb to realize you used git outside of Xcode. oh wait if you visit another file
and come back, I'll show things correctly". Or the three different git staging behaviors when dealing with the
asset catalog.
Granted, that's just because Xcode is a shitshow rather than an intrinsic property of the technology.
#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-21 18:29:30.835784+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Argh. Somehow I lost my utf8 fixes, probably when I had to restore from backups... Sorry
about that...
And, yes, XCode, and... I have literal for loops around MacOS layout code because if I do
it several times it eventually accepts my layout, but sometimes the first or second time
through it doesn't.
The fact that the constraints are bi-directional and non-deterministic is seriously fucked
up, and I hope someone is doing some introspection over that decision.
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