@dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org
Post #753618
2026-03-24 10:06 UTC
Replies (8)
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@flesh@transfem.social 2026-03-24 10:19
@dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org ``` if (gonna_crash) then { dont() } ``` kind of shit
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@cford@toot.thoughtworks.com 2026-03-24 10:30
@dumpsterqueer "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage
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@harmonia_amanda@eldritch.cafe 2026-03-24 11:42
@dumpsterqueer I had to explain that to a friend who is not a tech person at all, who was routinely appending "please give me your sources and do not hallucinate" to his prompts. Marketing has really done a lot of work to confuse people about what these things do and how they work.
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@steadmanticore@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-24 13:01
@dumpsterqueer
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@IngaLovinde@embracing.space 2026-03-24 13:17
@dumpsterqueer but when I asked a feral opossum to refactor my codebase, I did explicitly request it to make no mistakes! (no offense to fedi opossums)
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@simagick@freeradical.zone 2026-03-24 14:23
@dumpsterqueer Because work makes me use LLMs (booo 👎 ), I have developed some prompts that make it less bad. I have had moderate success with configuration prompts that have it warn me if i make request with an elevated risk of incorrect hallucination. I am a bit resentful at the amount of work i have to put into making this alleged tool less unuseful
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@Stephanie@thetransagenda.gay 2026-03-24 15:00
@dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org The worst part is: due to the absolute bizarro nature of these things, it'll probably help too. Not a lot, and it might even make it perform worse in some cases, but still: someone somewhere will notice a 2% decrease in mistakes and feel vindicated.
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@sammy@cherrykitten.gay 2026-03-24 10:09
@dumpsterqueer please generate a perfect codebase with no bugs or security risks, make no mistakes, don't hallucinate and don't waste any electricity. don't use any GPL licensed code. see, i just solved all problems that people list about AI! /s