Yeah, every time I see someone say go to Mars as an answer to the earth getting ruined, have to keep in mind that Mars is pre ruined, and whatever calamity that ruins earth will be easier to survive than colonizing Mars

But like the whole ‘vibe coding’ message is the LLM knows all this stuff so you don’t have to.

This isn’t some “LLM can do some code completion/suggestions” it’s “LLM is so magical you can be an idiot with no skills/training and still produce full stack solutions”.

judgement

Yeah, it admitted to an error in judgement because the prompter clearly declared it so.

Generally LLMs will make whatever statement about what has happened that you want it to say. If you told it it went fantastic, it would agree. If you told it that it went terribly, it will parrot that sentiment back.

Which what seems to make it so dangerous for some people’s mental health, a text generator that wants to agree with whatever you are saying, but doing so without verbatim copying so it gives an illusion of another thought process agreeing with them. Meanwhile, concurrent with your chat is another person starting from the exact same model getting a dialog that violently disagrees with the first person. It’s an echo chamber.

Did not voting for Trump mean a vote for Harris?

It would mean you wouldn’t have minded a Harris victory. The comment even explicitly said “half a vote” to reflect this.

This commentary is frequently also accompanied with blaming Harris voters for things that Trump is doing…

Are you saying they are complex?

There may have been an imbalance, but seems the nature of the relationship was pretty mutual, not coerced.

I think in this specific scenario, the guy has been flamed pretty hard

FYI, they were both married people with their respective marriages.

One percent of their employees were in the picture (the couple and one additional woman were all from the company).

But I suspect the chances that anyone that would recognize them to be in the audience and paying attention to the kiss cam is still low.

Even If they had been caught, wouldn’t have gone viral. So maybe their affair is caught, but no one knows or cares outside their personal circle.

Have seen emails at work that were AI generated, but they made no disclaimer. Then someone points out how wildly incorrect it was and they just say “oh whoops, not my fault, I just ask ed an LLM”. They set things up to take credit if people liked it, and used the LLMs are just stupid as an excuse when it doesn’t fly.

I like using Keepassxc with a file that is on a storage provider. Keeping the task of storing my file and decrypting it completely and utterly distinct. Don’t have to audit that the total solution is keeping things separate like they claim when there’s no risky interop in the first place.

Comment resonates with my experience.

Software project at work recently:

We are going to launch a new offering to improve experience for customers.

Ok, how?

We are going to switch it to cloud model and charge annually instead of perpetual.

Ok, that’s for us, what about customer?

We are going to analyze their accounts and present them with suggestions on other of our products and addons they haven’t bought yet.

Where is the customer improvement?

We are going to discontinue supporting third party products and focus exclusively on customers that buy only from us.

Ok, but we have support for third party products we don’t even compete with?

We are going to exclude those too, to focus on the market that is important.

Ok, but at least you’re going to provide equivalent capability as the product you are replacing?

We are going to streamline the experience by offering only the core capabilities and discontinue extraneous features.

Ok, but you think this will expand revenue, so you will afford to explain the service and support team and free up more time for developers to get requirements?

We are in fact going to lay off and offshore all of it, including most of the customer contacts that barely kept the preceding product alive…

Now after a while of this mess they also had like 96% availability with almost all of it unplanned outages, but that’s not too bad because they have only like 6 or 7 customers anyways. There’s emails running around asking why the product has failed, and the answer seems to be we need to kill more of our successful products to try to push customers into this mess.

Ironically cash strapped startups might not care like a big multinational would.

Travel expenses in a bearaucracy can get weird and people who don’t care about the business case are in charge of travel expenses, and they only get recognition by cutting costs, often in stupid ways.

I worked at a company like that and to give an example of the results of such a bearaucracy, they had this 20 thousand dollar product that shipped maybe 500 units a year. For some reason they became fixated on if they could delete a 25 cent part to reduce cost. The team sized the regulatory work needed to evaluator and presented the 60 thousand dollar estimate and figured that would be the end of it, no way you would spend 60k to maybe cut total company cost by 125 dollars per year. To their surprise the project was approved, they did the work, and confirmed the 25 cent part was still needed to be in compliance with some government regulations…

Fun part is that if the fee is refundable, but requires a process, then some company travel policies might stick such a fee with the employee if they fail to correctly do the process to get the refund. In such a company it might be one more thing for an employee to think about declining travel because they might personally get stuck with the bill.

A lot of company travel policies are strangely stingy on cost.

But even before this, business travel has been diminished. I’ve been a part of planning for a particular conference in the fall. It usually has a lot of European presenters and lots of meetings among international companies. There’s been a bit of a scramble because most of the people that were expected to speak are not going to travel to the US. Our company is spending a bit more to send people over to key clients in Europe near that time to replace the typical meet up at the conference. People were already nervous about Trump’s ICE enough to declare the US to not be approved for business travel.

International tourism is just being screwed all over the place.

To be fair, I don’t know how much crazier they can go with Trump jokes than they were already…

It seems a plausible concern with Colbert, but doesn’t explain Conan or Corden.

So I think there’s some ambiguity here and some potential to look silly declaring this with absolute certainty and then Colbert ends up explaining he wanted to retire or move on to other projects while handing the show off to some other host, but the network decided not to bother with that show after the current host goes.

Meanwhile more unambiguously Trump has been restricting access to news media he doesn’t like and we can keep talking about that and other unambiguous things and even saying there’s a solid chance that appeasing Trump is to some extent causing this event, but certainty needs more information from authotive sources.

they could have renewed year by year.

Not if Colbert and probably a number of other people would have demanded a multi-year commitment if they were going to continue. For all we know Colbert was ready to hand things over to another host since he is in his 60s now, but the network didn’t want to bother. The replacement strategy was a hypothetical, they might instead invest in yet another drama or maybe a sitcom or something and not even try to fill the role that variety style shows historically filled and cede that to other media and independent streamers.

If they were so financially motivated that of course they should have wanted to keep the show running, they probably would have announced transitioning to a new host, perhaps behind the scenes insisting that they lay off the Trump coverage. Trump would have loved the narrative of personally getting Colbert out of the late night show that he himself used to be a part of a fair amount back in the 80s being interviewed by Letterman. Telling Trump they are “getting the woke out of the show” would probably make him even happier than just canning the entire show.

Trump might have been a factor in closing it out sooner, though if Colbert was of a mind to hand things over to a new host instead of going for another few years then that certainly would have been a plausible decision point too. It’s just hard to really know and it’s worth the caveat that any theory, Trump or otherwise, is speculative and might have a different level of accuracy than we can guess right now until the key people say more than has been said.

Real estate gains don’t really matter much so long as the real estate is tied up in actually doing something. Yes they can recoup years of costs if they sold it, but in the meantime owning means a number of expenses.

I am also inclined to think that Trump may be a factor, but then I also saw his point that Colbert had a 3 year contract that is up next year, and that means the network is now having to make the call whether they want to be doing this in 2029, and if they aren’t sure that’s the right way to address the market moving forward for three years, that might explain reluctance. If they might want to invest in a clip-centric format perhaps with a younger host, then this would be the point to make that call.

Recap and redundant content, oh look a musical guest… but I can hear any of those and way more on demand. An interview with a celebrity, who if I cared I could watch a ton of elsewhere. Of course some interview better than others, and seeing a Jon Stewart interview is worthwhile, but not sure if I’m in the mood to watch a monologue at the same time I’m in the mood to watch an interview. Which is really the big thing about these shows is that it’s a long set of not really connected content that used to make sense with broadcast television but makes less and less sense with on-demand video dominating.

For background NPC, sure nothing lost, at least nothing lost that isn’t already being lost in the “put big exclamations/question marks over NPCs with something actually important to say”. Once upon a time there was a nice experience of evaluating NPC text to determine if there’s an interesting side quest or at least an interesting side story playing out in the dialog. But with the push for more credible ambient NPC instead of big cities with like 25 people living in them that has been significantly lost anyway.

Yeah, already things were getting harder to follow as people went to address the “strangely sparse cities” problem by flooding the environment with way more stuff aiming for more plausible, but it’s more than you can ever consume and it’s generally hard to know when you are actually supposed to pay attention or not. Finding interesting side quests among the flavor text used to be a thing, but now the flavor text is just overwhelmingly too much for that.

Of course, there’s recognition of that and games start putting indications of “THIS RANDOM NPC HAS SOMETHING TO SAY” bright over anyone vaguely important. So I suppose in that context NPC flavor text vomit might as well be AI since it’s been clearly indicated as stuff to ignore as background noise. Still disappointed in the decline of “is this important or not” determination being organic.