I use Generative AI at work because I know it’s being tracked. I’ve offered examples and suggestions about things I’ve done with it.

I’ve then outright referred to it as the World’s Worst Intern. Sometimes it does the right thing, but you always have to check. Sometimes it says it’s going to do the right thing, but actually does something different. Sometimes it does completely the wrong thing.

So I have it do the things that I can do – rote steps, easy changes I can explain faster than I can type, bulk renames or code cleanup that the compiler can validate – but not the things I don’t know if I can do. I trust the compiler, I don’t trust the code it wrote. I’ll use it to write the first draft of documentation based on the steps I took, but I’m editing it and expanding it.

It’s not smart. It’s not intelligent. It can kind of do things as long as you’re willing to let it flail for a while or to spend the time checking it’s work. It’s the World’s Worst Intern.

Thank you for the great explanation! I felt I had to come back to thank you after I tried to upvote your reply twice. I’m going to look into this more – and then look at how far out on the lake I can get signal. Thank you!

I’m a complete newbie to LoRa/Meshtastic things, so please forgive the honest question: what do you use this for? I see it has some sensors out of the box, but… What are you doing with it?

I like seeing other people’s recommendations for books I need to get!

My mom’s cookbook of choice was “The Joy of Cooking,” so that’s what I bought when I moved across the country. It has explanations of how and why it makes decisions, and mistakes one might make.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/joy-of-cooking-fully-revised-and-updated-ethan-becker/fd5f6c238b71f467

(Link tracking removed manually, so it might not work)

There’s a blu-ray decoder extended license.

Stop! You’re scaring me!

He’s still sore about the XFL, isn’t he.

My spouse once told me that she hadn’t been allowed to play Risk because it was a boy’s game. Apparently as a child she had been sent “back to the kitchen” to help with “women’s chores” while the menfolk played strategy board games.

I didn’t shed a tear when her dad passed. And neither did she.

I am being tracked for my usage of AI, so I fiddle with it. My conclusion: worst intern ever.

It sometimes gets things right, just like you said - but I’ve reviewed what a coding assistant claimed it did, been reasonable impressed, then glanced at the code and discovered it hadn’t even done what it claimed. It wasn’t just buggy - it lied about itself.

My previous worst intern just didn’t do the work. This nonsense wastes my time.

He learned what he was good at… And what he enjoyed.

Kevin is a shop lifter after he panics with the tooth brush. Since he learned never to trust cops, he assumes he’d get thrown in jail like the hardened criminal he is… And then there’s the cop who’s trying to break into his house. Yeah, can’t blame him for not making that call.

My understanding is that the most basic of funerals and associated trappings is in excess of $10k (and that was prior to the current inflationary economic situation). Final healthcare expenses are likely also a few thousand dollars - and yes, the family likely has to pay it. So the amount of unexpected expenses is probably $25k to begin with… It starts seeming less excessive, to me at least.

I - and since regretting it - rewatched the early MCU movies recently. The first time you really see Thanos mirrors the first frame, and the line immediately before he turns and smiles talks about how to invade Earth is “to court death.” Given the comic book version, I’m not sure they had the whole 50% motivation thought through yet.

I’m not sure they’ve thought it through yet, although I do like the argument elsewhere in the thread that Thanos did it to prove he was right, not to save the universe.

Someone had to take the picture!

Style and tone MIGHT be something they can mimic, but they are phenomenally bad at nuance. The LLM model loses information when it is constructed, and it similarly loses detail when it’s asked to elaborate on a point.

A clearly misremembered or misread news article when the comeback tour was announced.

Didn’t the rest of the band mostly retire when she joined?

Oh. Add it as a weight on the arm, probably.

… Tell me more about this penny trick.

I feel like I missed something in my childhood!

Not a wizard, but I’m finding my docker configuration of paperless-ngx to meet my minimal needs.