BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agoStubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square101linkfedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 hours agoAI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 hours agoLLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast)plus-squarewww.spreaker.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoCursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outragedplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day ago‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 hours agoThe idea guy will become the most important role in the coming aeon of AIplus-squarenews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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epigone@awful.systems · edit-22 days agodid Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?plus-squareawful.systemsimagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down16
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoCalling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 6 days agoThe Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Publicplus-squarewww.honest-broker.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-27 days agoOnly 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square103linkfedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoVenture capital is lending money against video cardsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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maol@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days ago"Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out"plus-squarewww.thejournal.ieexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoPublishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviewsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoGoogle Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 8 days agoThe rise of Whateverplus-squareeev.eeexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoMicrosoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’tplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoHow to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questionsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days ago$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbotplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days ago‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at workplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square90linkfedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agoStubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square148linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
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