antinutrient [they/them]

Web design peaked in 1999. It went downhill from Geocities.

LLMs are good at translating documents between languages, its statistics based approach works really well for that.

To me the least important part about LLM code is the ability to maintain it. I don’t give a fuck about the code at my job or my job or my employer. Fuck them. They’re not going to keep me employed for decades, why should I make sure to create code that can be maintained for that time when it won’t be me doing it. I hope my company goes out of business.

wait is sucking balls good or bad

Something I like to tell people is that we’ve been reading AI generated news articles as far back as 2013. I used to work for a company that was a publications services company that produced content and media mostly for textbooks but we had our fingers in a lot of things. One of the big initiatives there was implementing something called Wordsmith which would take structured data like a financial reports, stock tickers, sports scores, and weather reports and turn it into a narrative article that we sold/licensed to places like yahoo news. Sometimes humans had to step in to correct some schema analysis but it mostly just worked in a pipeline and generated text automatically. Looking back and researching the company recently they were actually on the forefront of what ChatGPT got credit for in 2022 and I’m sure a lot of my work at that company went to training the current models.