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TW😶NKS
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. White text on black
AI Design Logic
Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.
Guy: Get me a cheese pizza
Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.
Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.
Guy: Wow, look what I made!
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Rich people think this way for everything
That’s why they don’t see any problem with replacing workers with AI. They think AI will do X better than humans do just like machines could build X better than humans could at the beginning of the industrial revolution.
But the cost benefit analysis often proves to be quite the opposite in the long-term, despite deceptive short-term gains. But a short-term gains seem to be all that businesses seem to care about.
They like AI because it doesn’t provide feedback about their ideas being less than perfect.
You’re absolutely right!
And here’s the thing
You’re not crazy!
You can just tell AI to provide feedback and not be a kiss ass… Hell most of the good models well"good" models do provide feedback by default. The whole AI is a kiss ass thing is almost entirely a byproduct of free cheap low-end models or outdated ones.
So this particular criticism hasn’t really been valid for a hot second anymore. Honestly, 99% of everything everyone thinks AI is in this entire thread is either flat out wrong at this point as things have already changed. Or they’re conflating the business problems with the actual tool.
Mean hell Claude will straight up. Tell you you’re dumb. You’ll do so professionally and in corpo speak and it’s awful. But it will tell you you’re dumb.
It will also totally throw shade at you while taking the blame for your f****** which is pretty funny.
Mean to be fair, most people who hate AI aren’t going to go spend a bunch of money to actually learn what good models do and how good models actually operate. They’re just going to look at the s*** on their phone that’s free. That sucks and go it all sucks.
Mean to be fair. Those models do suck. The company’s running them suck. Those companies did a bunch of illegal s*** and are ruining the environment and that sucks.
There’s a lot to hate about AI.
But the actual tool in and of itself isn’t actually that bad and it doesn’t need to be bad. The open models trained on data that’s actually freely given in license appropriately while not as good as those big giant multi-trillion dollar ones.
Aren’t ruining the environment, aren’t displacing people out of a job, aren’t full of stolen information, and can still genuinely be useful for small tasks.
A tool is a tool and it’s only as bad or good as we make it.
AI sucks bcz it hallucinates (a fundamental flaw of all LLMs), increase electricity costs, water usage, and their overall environmental footprint. Pick your favorite bcz there’s a lot of reasons to hate AI other than, the “free models aren’t good”.
on a slight tangent: that’s why I tend to prefer Claude (when I have to use AI), because it does actually provide push-back and doesn’t get all kiss-ass with me like ChatGPT
here’s hoping that the Qwen model I locally run won’t be a sycophant. I hauen’t used it much to tell.
It’s how our finance systems evolved to be, no one got time to wait for long term gains anymore. It’s all about playing the hot potato.
That’s one of the core injustices of capitalism.
Rich person says “Build a thing”
Workers design, research, and build the thing.
Rich person keeps the profits.
Reminds me of when I heard someone talk about a recent experience when they “built houses”. I thought that sounded unlikely, as I could not picture this person wearing a toolbelt and hardhat and actually swinging a hammer. I asked for clarification, and they explained how they managed a construction company or something, and that in English, saying “I build houses” covers the management side as well, not just the people actually doing the building.
It’s not that hard to say they’re a manager, they just wanted to feel included
As someone who has actually physically built houses (i.e. nailing walls together, putting up the siding, hanging and mudding sheetrock, installing doors and windows etc.) this mindset pisses me off more than anything. “Management” does stuff like buying already-built houses, trucking them to our site and placing them on foundations, discovering the houses were built in the 1960s with 2x3s instead of 2x4s and thus needed to be torn down to the floors because they’re no longer up to code, necessitating us rebuilding the houses entirely from the floors up, and then discovering the houses were placed two feet too close to the property line so we have to literally chop two feet off of them and rebuild the walls.
True fucking story. And I forgot to mention that the floors were 3/4 rotten so we had to rebuild most of them, too.
the amount of resources that must have gone into that whole process, and the fact that they [management] were apparently fine with is appalling to me. wouldn’t they at least have financial incentives to do it right the first time?
Well, the organization was kind of like Habitat for Humanity, just smaller. They mainly existed on charity donations. Looking back on it (forty years later), I suspect that the guy running it was embezzling a lot of the money.
yea, the corruption would explain it then. That would have probably led to corrupt/incompetent management
2x3s instead of 2x4s
How about building houses the right way like in the EU: Out of cellular concrete
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“The Life and Times of Thomas Edison”
…or swallows the loss.
The laid off workers also suffer the loss, typically.
Furthermore, I don’t think “he gambled” compellingly makes this system fair or good.
The laid off workers also suffer the loss
Or benefits when they got employed. Point is, that you aren’t rising much with just working. You earn your wage whether the owner did right or wrong decision. Unlike them you don’t have to bear the risk of losing your savings
The owner also gets a wage and benefits while the process is running.
And much of the time, they’re spending VC money. Minimal personal risk.
And even so, that doesn’t justify the owner keeping almost all of the proceeds. I don’t care if they put their life savings into it. Labor built it.
Wage paid out of your own money to youself isn’t a benefit.
VC funding.
Also why are you so invested in defending capitalists?
And because of that, unfortnately, a lot of regular people also think the entire point of technology and wealth is to never have to do anything substantive.
you know, i’ve tried to defend some usage in the past, explaining my processes and the many steps of manual refinement, masking, and layerwork i put in to things, how i only run local models with open weights, how all my power comes from hydro etc etc
but as the tools keep evolving i’ve realised nobody else seems to actually care about the process. the pro-people just want as much slop as possible. someone likened it to a slot machine, where you keep pulling just because. that’s where we are now.
I fully get where you’re coming from. I fully believe that you can’t vibe code correctly unless you already know how to code correctly. I’m against the shifting paradigm of “who cares what the code looks like aa long as it works properly and the LLM can read it quickly” bullshit that’s coming out of it. I want to read the code and understand it too. I want it to be object oriented and not just dumb ad hoc methods everywhere that’s 1,000 lines when it could’ve been 100 lines.
Now anecdotally, as someone who uses it for my main work and side project, I am still getting a lot of use out of it. I’m learning new things at a faster rate than I would have before. For my side project, I am trying to optimize gear sets for a game and there’s hundreds of millions of different configurations. The LLM I’m using knows about my code and the project and what I need and is able to suggest other algorithms, like I was able to learn about Dinkelbach’s algorithm. I have it write up design docs with formulas and pseudocode implementation and I review that and it takes my comments into account. I treat it like a junior developer and ask for questions to make sure I understand what it’s doing. I think a lot of people aren’t treating it like a junior developer or intern and that’s where problems come from.
Now, I wouldn’t be using it if it wasn’t free with my company, as this is more of “learning/research” for my job.
And for my job, we have semantic memory and a ton of MCP servers setup that guide it through the right code and can do internal documentation search so it’s way more powerful than just using base Claude Code or whatever. It has helped me stay more on track with my projects as an ADHD person (even though I’m medicated) by documenting what it does after it does it in a shared doc rather than me forgetting to do that because I run a command and log off for the day or something.
I do hate the water usage and energy usage though…
Same, but you forgot, the massive stealing of intellectual property that no government fights against because they are scared to be left behind by big tech, the impact on learning (especially students), and the impact on little hands that had to moderate the NSFL content.
As a min maxer in a lot of games, I used to make spreadsheets in little tiny janky python programs do all sorts of crazy s*** to optimize stuff.
Would spend hours on it! A little local model has basically reduced my effort. 10. Fold and saved me hours upon hours of work.
Probably the single best thing is I can just yell at it to tell me what’s on the f****** to-do list and it will just tell me. And it helps my ADHD ass actually decide on what to start working on for the day and actually get something done instead of doing 20 things at once.
Fantastic little tool.
Now I have more time to play my games and I have something to yell at me so I don’t get distracted
i refuse to use ml models for code. the copyright issues alone should be enough to keep them away from every public code base until the matter is settled. but also because local tooling is, frankly, shit. i have a bit of hope for text diffusion models, but i have a hard time seeing the situation improving because everyote is full in on cloud models now.
Imagine if you put that much time into a useful skill.
i do. i experiment with transformer and diffusion models like a few hours a month, tops. the result isn’t interesting enough. the process of bending and breaking the models is the fun part.
Sounds like it’s a very rewarding hobby lol.
yeah, it’s a great way to see the limitations of these systems. just like ctf and ioccc.
I was being sarcastic, man. That sounds like a tremendous waste of time.
i will always take the time to explain things i find interesting to people. the benefit here is that i can now much more efficiently break large models as well when i come across them. helps me add anti-ai clauses to websites, cv’s, and repos i publish.
Don’t bother explaining to them. Their name is a misnomer, and they’re an acerbic moron.
Thanks for taking one for the team then, I guess!
Obviously never used AI. How it really goes is that you ask for a cheese pizza and after you spend hours and a bunch of money on tokens, you get an onion and peanut butter pizza with no cheese and you go, “Fuck it. Close enough.”
You forgot the part where they steal the pizzas from other parlors to sell them as thier own.
All that while using enough resources to create tons of pizzas
You forgot the part where AI suggests food-grade glue as sticking ingredient.
Hey, now that’s just the multi-trillion dollar companies trying to save a buck!
Some people have some level of ethics! Their product just unfortunately is the one that will give you a peanut butter and squash pizza when you ask for a Hawaiian…
Well the multi-trillion dollar company. When you ask for Hawaiian pizza it just gives you pepperoni and smacks you and tells you you violated its rules and ethics.
Cheese Pizza
Then FBI strums in
the best part is that the waiter stole it from another restaurant
Mmmmm mmmmm steamed hams
*from the dumpsters of several other restaurants
This, but you don’t get a pizza, you get a wheel of iron, colored in brown with glue on top of it.
But the pizza was stolen from the store down the street
Family recipe
“Give me a cheese pizza in the style of a famous italian restaurant pizza kitchen. Use lots of cheese, tomato sauce, and bread. Cook it in an oven at a very high temperature. The cheese should be hot to the touch. The crust should be thin when the cooking is complete and have a few tiny black spots on it to show that it is crispy. Put the pizza on a metal tray and deliver it to my table within the next thirty minutes. Make no mistakes.”
You forgot to specify Italian DOP cheese, now you have a pizza oozing with shitty Kraft/Lactalis pseudo-cheese.
This is why no one wants to go to Altoona.
Also you’ll get framed for murder there
Receives pizza
“Why is it covered with pineapple?!?”
AI would bring you a big cheese wheel with salami on it, and temu Ratatouille in the background, in the wrong scale. Because that shit is DUMB!
Somebody on the other app said that Cheese Pizza stands for CP and the AI thing becomes even more accurate
Yeah I was surprised no other comments here picked that up, I thought that had to be on purpose.
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The sad part it did try… and wasted electricity and water
I definitely get the sentiment. But in my opinion it’s closer to somebody going to the pizza shop, ordering and picking up a pizza and bringing it home to fam and saying “hey I got us a pizza”
“That’s a good looking pizza, look at that cheese”
“… Thanks! White glue is commonly used in the industry to get a picture perfect cheese pull”
That’s if you use AI at work. But instead of the fam, it’s your boss.
I sometimes have LLMs make and spin up single us UIs for things. It’s not uncommon for me to prompt “make it pretty” or " can you make it" pop " more" which makes me laugh quite a bit.
I prefer the term ‘built’ when I share my vibe coded slop, thanks
*sarcasm
I mean I get the point, but people will actually say “I made pizza for dinner” when they just heated up a frozen pizza which is the same.
Do they? Because when this come up what I usually hear is more apologetic - something along the lines of “oh, I didn’t actually make it”. They certainly won’t try to defend it when pushed.
In my 35 years of life I’ve never once heard anyone not say yeah. I made a pizza when they just heated one up in the oven.
The very act of heating it up in the oven is the cooking of the pizza. As far as I’ve been able to tell from everyone I’ve ever interacted with in my life.
Heating things up in the oven is generally speaking, considered cooking.
Even more egregious never heard anyone say anything other than I made x when all they did was put something in the microwave.
Hell if I’m just boiling some hot dogs and throwing them in the bun I’m going to say I made some hot dogs. I didn’t raise the pig slaughter them stuff the sausage. But I sure the f*** cooked them. I made those hot dogs.
That’s because of our colloquial use of “made” in this context. Certainly “making” dinner is a different use of “made” than the one in this comic strip where all he did is “ask”, right?
I take pride in my cooking
I would say “I reheated a pizza” if I lowered myself to doing that
When I say that I make something, I made it from scratch
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe
Don’t be obtuse
And AI would hand you a salad calling it a pizza.
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