Digital Mark

LAInus.

It means I just crumbled into dust.

Most people aren’t yet spending a toxic amount of time with LLMs. When I talk to people who’ve spent even a moderate amount of time at it, they’re clearly affected, no longer themselves. Like any epidemic, it starts with a few people with some unusual exposure. And we know how well people protected themselves from the last epidemic.

He wasn’t a fuckwit, he wasn’t undisciplined, he wasn’t badly parented. This is what happens when a normal Human is exposed to too much chatbot. This can and will happen to you, your “mental defenses” are not sufficient.

If we don’t destroy it first, it will destroy us. #butlerianJihad

Oh, so you worked with my ex-coworker.

It implemented a database. Giant branching if/for loop.

Went to school before the late '90s: Write everything in paper notebooks & exam books.

Went to school between late '90s-2020s: Tap it all into a computer. Learn nothing.

Went to school late 2020s on: Write in paper notebooks, in between scavenging the ruins for food.

His books are also fun, The Stench of Honolulu was good, the opposite of a hard-boiled PI.

A degree in CS is valueless for actual working jobs. You need to write software and show that you know what you’re doing. And if you can do that, you may not even need a job from anyone else. The time when companies would just overstaff and have paid interns is long over.