Ben Ramsey

@antonio106 @BenjaminHan @paninid Wow! So, as a teacher, you’re basically forcing your students to give up certain rights to their work. That doesn’t sit well with me at all.

@BenjaminHan @paninid Similarly, my wife was finishing her degree a few years back (before LLMs were used for this stuff), and all her work was scanned by a plagiarism detector. It seemed more harmful than helpful.

@wagesj45 @carnage4life I’m sure the courts will be sure to consider your strong view when making their decisions. 🙃

@wagesj45 @carnage4life It’s not yet settled whether training a model on copyrighted data is fair use.

@carnage4life So their argument is effectively “it’s not a crime if everyone is doing it?”

@dan @rmd1023 At least not on your work computer.

@benjamineskola @jalefkowit I had no idea she played!

@jalefkowit Another interesting tidbit about Vin Diesel is that he wrote the forward to the Thirty Years of Adventure book about the history of D&D (on its 30th anniversary). He’s a big geek, apparently.

@JessTheUnstill It’s sometimes all I can do to just take my meds.

@jscalzi All true. No notes.

@elazar @jrf_nl Same

@jrf_nl @elazar Yeah, and this is what I worry about: death of communities and loss of skilled programmers.

@elazar @jrf_nl That, and I’ve had some generally good experiences with it, but also some horrendously bad experiences. When it’s good, it’s good, and it’s good more often than not (nowadays). Still, we are not helping ourselves or the next generation by rushing headlong into it, not to mention the unethical practices of the companies behind these models.

@elazar @jrf_nl It also has to be part of an enforced hook because, if you leave it up to the AI to remember to always run them before committing, there will be many times they’ll just “forget” and commit straight away. When called out, it’s an “Oh, yeah! I was supposed to do that!” moment.

They cannot be relied on to be deterministic. They’re still just advanced auto-complete.

@elazar @jrf_nl The best way to enforce things, even according to Claude’s docs, is to use static analysis and coding standards tools as part of pre-commit hooks. This will restrict the AI from making the commit until the issues are fixed. It sucks, though, because it’s a waste of tokens for it to churn like that.

@jrf_nl @elazar The fact that AI can’t learn is one of the worst parts about using it. There are certain things that are so prevalent in the training data that any amount of “memory” files stressing the importance of doing things a certain way will not overcome the tendency to follow what it was trained on.

One of those things is using commas instead of concatenation operators in PHP echo statements.

@TheBreadmonkey @blogdiva Drink-based. It’s already right there in the name!

@cdevroe @zw He doesn’t appear to be active here.

I have more ideas, though. I’d love for this app to be a full-featured journaling tool, especially since the “log how you’re feeling” mindfulness prompts and other Apple apps tie into it so well, but it has odd limitations that keep me from being able to really express myself in a journal.

I’ve been trying out Apple Journal. It’s okay, but why can’t you insert links? That seems like basic functionality that a journal should have today. I can paste a URL, and it shows up as a different color in “view mode,” but it’s not clickable. WTF?

@kboyd I just realized you might be talking about the live action show, though. I still haven’t seen it, but it’s at least binge-able.