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  1. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    G’day Skippy, G’day Skippy, G’day Skippy.
     
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  2. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    You've seen vibe coding, now let me introduce vibe working!

    This is not a joke. This is an official announcement from Microsoft.

    [​IMG]

    You too could be slightly more than 50% accurate in Excel, thanks to the power of burning down the world's forests and boiling the seas to power one of the growing number of Bullshit-as-a-Service engines!

    <sigh>
     
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  3. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly said that he believes AI could be in a bubble...
     
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  4. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Gee, d'you think(?)

    My favourite bit of bubblenomics: Nvidia's giving OpenAI a billion dollars... so that OpenAI can buy a billion dollar's worth of GPUs from Nvidia. Oracle's involved somewhere in the middle, too, 'cos of course it chuffin' is.
     
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  5. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Err... no: do it yourself.

    If you don't care enough to analyse the data yourself, or pay people to do it for you, you have no right to make decisions about your business based on data analysis.

    [​IMG]
     
    Byron C, 29 Sep 2025
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  6. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Kevin Beaumont, security blogger, had a play with it on the socials: it does exactly what you'd expect, which is deliver an answer-shaped object. It happily generated spreadsheets and presentations filled with absolutely fictitious data.

    "Don't be daft," the pro-AI crowd will cry, "you only use it to make a template!" Yeah... At least one of Microsoft's official examples from that there post talks about the LLM doing "quality checks" so your workslop is ready to submit as-is(!)
     
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  7. bawjaws

    bawjaws Multimodder

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    One of my favourite AI-related quotes is from Martin Fowler (the Refactoring guy, not the guy off Eastenders):

     
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  8. Gareth Halfacree

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    No, no, that can't be right. I have it on good authority from those currently blowing vast quantities of hot air into the AI bubble that LLMs are capable of "thinking" and "reasoning" and definitely aren't just spicy autocomplete which, when asked to think and reason, will output a statistically-selected stream of tokens which looks like the response you'd get from something you'd asked to think and reason.
     
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  9. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    I can’t emphasise that enough. “Hallucinations” are not errors, or aberrations; they are the model doing exactly what it is supposed to.

    And the more that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic do to try and steer their models, including introducing “reasoning” models, the more that paying customers will be penalised, because those features burn even more tokens.
     
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  10. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    This post has fallen victim to Imgur's unnannounced "What's a UK?" decision. :(
     
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  11. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    We are already discussing that here. I think @Zoon has the right idea: I might start self-hosting Slink.

    My account remains accessible via a VPN, and I discovered this morning that there is an API available for imgur, so I should still be able to grab all my images from there. Slink also has an (undocumented) API, so I can write a Python program to strip all my images, upload to Slink, and build a mapping/lookup of old imgur URLs to new Slink URLs.

    Replacing imgur URLs with Slink URLs in my posts here will be a lot trickier though; I’d need a level of access that just doesn’t exist without an API or direct access to the database.
     
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  12. Zoon

    Zoon Hunting Wabbits since the 80s

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    Yeah only way to fix that as it stands is to fix em as you find em.

    I mean sure you could if you had database access dump all post bodies owned by a specific user with ‘imgur’ in the body and prepare a script that would bulk find and replace but that’d be as much of a ballache as fixing the few you need.

    Even if you don’t bother to selfhost the image running your own Bit.ly or similar and at least controlling where the URI goes will help prevent situations like this occurring again.
     
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  13. Gareth Halfacree

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    ...am I the only one who just dumps JPG files in a /pictures/ directory on a web server?
     
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  14. Zoon

    Zoon Hunting Wabbits since the 80s

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    You strip the metadata though, right? Cos some unscrupulous sort might get your real name!
     
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  15. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    You say that… but I’m already going to build a Python application that uses the imgur API to grab all my uploaded images (so long as imgur doesn’t start blocking VPN access), uploads them to a Slink instance, and generates a mapping between “old imgur urls & variations” and “new slink urls & variations”…

    The stuff I’m working on for this whole “load games with NFC cards” project has probably scraped a lot more images in recent weeks than I’ve ever uploaded to imgur…!

    Updating 11,400-ish database records is trivial in comparison, I could do it in my sleep :hehe:.
     
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  16. Zoon

    Zoon Hunting Wabbits since the 80s

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    I mean if you were DevDoge it would be trivial as **** with a little backy backup before fiddling! But for YOU Byron C to be given access it would be a pain!
     
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  17. TheBlackSwordsMan

    TheBlackSwordsMan Over the Hills and Far Away

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    [​IMG]
     
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  18. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    GenX don't appear on the picture because we've already fixed the computer :lol:
     
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  19. Nexxo

    Nexxo Rotate Your Owl For Science

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    Gen X:
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  20. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    You guys know millennials are in their 40s now, right? We grew up with this stuff; we’re the last generation whose formative years were spent without a permanent internet connection and the constant psychological barrage from smartphones, yet are still young enough to see the idealistic dream of “the information age” fall to hyper-capitalist **** around us in real time :grin:
     
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