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4.6.0-nightly.2026-04-17
Minneapolis now, France soon.
Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely.
Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
The only stories to pay attention to around OpenAI relate to (1) the psychopath grifter that is the company's CEO, and (2) the fact that markets and the general public are quickly coming to see the company as "WeWork 2.0."
This isn't a company-wide memo, it's a press release. None of these attempts to control the narrative will work in the end, by the way, as the underlying financials are simply too bad.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
The insistence that software developers accede to the gaslighting around AI really is something.
“We built this technology to replace you, but we also want to gaslight you regarding your planned obsolescence. Please sit here quietly and allow us to present our case as to why we’re seeking to destroy your profession.”
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
RE: @shituationist@kolektiva.social
One of the more interesting developments over the last year or so is the rise of skills/rules being put into markdown docs and then fed into LLMs, in the hope this cargo culting will appease the gods.
This is, of course, insane.
How a sector that asks, at every turn, for respectability, can behave in this manner is unbelievable.
Again: watching software development destroy itself has been quite weird. The sector will never recover from this.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Just a totally normal gambling establishment, oops I mean “prediction market.”
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
"Comprehensive ban" is the best LLM policy stance in so many instances.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Imagining a glorious future made all the more glorious without you in it. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/20/1134438/openai-is-throwing-everything-into-building-a-fully-automated-researcher/
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
The way American capitalism has degraded into something so tawdry is bizarre. Between pretending "prediction markets" aren't gambling and the growth and growth of crypto, it's just an insane time we live in.
And **none** of this would've happened without elite buy-in. It's the elite institutions of our system who've said, "you know, let's just allow all this criminality because we benefit from it."
Really time the ruling class in America reacquaints itself with the guillotine.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Lol.
It's fascinating to see software development destroy itself in a matter of months.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Omg, none of this is true in the least.
Altman is admitting that LLMs will not achieve "AGI," and straining to not say what I've been saying for a couple years: that transformer-based LLMs are at the limits of their capabilities.
There are no new model architectures on the horizon. None. LeCun just got $1B to continue work on his Jepa models that (1) went nowhere, and (2) got him fired from Meta.
The amount of disinformation out there is startling.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
We went from "plagiarism is bad," to "what I'm doing isn't plagiarism,"* to "you know, maybe plagiarism is okay now, ackshually" in a matter of months.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to be leaving tech. The next 2-5 years will be a parade of horrors. The closest analogy I can come up with is the tech sector as spaceship, and they just brought a Xenomorph on board: "oh, this will be just fine, just put those vaguely menacing eggs over in the corner."
*It, in fact, is plagiarism.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Minneapolis now, France soon. Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely. Leaving tech, and so should you.
Unsurprisingly, from the first sentence it's a lie:
"In the five years since Anthropic began, AI progress has moved incredibly quickly."
No, actually it hasn't. We're still using transformers, developed in late 2017; in fact, we're **hopelessly dependent upon them with nothing else in sight.**
Progress has stalled, despite endless hype. For example, where are those "agents?" Where are they? Can someone, anyone point to a successful, profitable agent? Anyone?
This is all such a terrible joke.
