@ludicity well said. Also, if I hear more about Gartner magic AI squares and positioning relative to them, I’ll be ill. Plus, I’m looking forward to the talk once/if it happens.

@ludicity I miss the old days when it was decided an app needed AI. So a data scientist made a simple linear regression, and we would add it to the app. Then, BOOM, singularity achieved. At least from an executive perspective. I always had a good laugh at them, but at least the ML did something. The only good thing I'll say about LLMs is copilot will write my unit tests. Which is why I am now arming myself for the robot revolution. As this will be considered a capital crime by them.

@ludicity Very enjoyable read, thank you.

I wish there was some mention of the energy costs / climate impact of the tech tho, which TBH is what worries me the most.

@ludicity this was a fun read. Thank you for articulating many of the thoughts I was struggling to convey. It’s a weird time to see all of this happening

@ludicity I don't know that unhinged rants really help convince anyone who's not already sick and tired of that shit, but as an avid reader of yours, I have to admit it does wonders as a mean of venting frustration by proxy (and it's always good to feel like you're not alone...)
Cheers for that!

@ludicity extremely funny and well-written! I will send this to my colleagues in my company that's slamming the door on its foot repeatedly trying to get in on the AI craze (i am in hell)

@ludicity I love reading this. It hits very hard, and on the right place. Thank you !

cc @lkanies

@ludicity good thing "GenAI experience sharing session", and helpful brainstorming with my team and management is not tomorrow. . I can't wait to hear about all the use cases we found. This article is wrongthink

@ludicity At last, an informed and balanced critique that potential adopters of AI everywhere were waiting for (but didn't know). Thank you.

@ludicity Good stuff and pretty much where I’ve been for a while now. The grift around LLMs is infuriating. With a few exceptions, I immediately distrust anyone who talks about “AI”.

@ludicity Thanks for a refreshing & entertaining reality check on the AI grift.

I'm a grumpy old semi-competent Scrum-averse Database Guy (mmm, lovely schemas ...) grinding through the twilight years of my career in the bowels of the data mines, keeping Broken Old Shit running because nobody can afford to fix things properly, while waves of functionally pointless & financially/environmentally disastrous LLM slurry flood in around us.

So good to know we're not alone in our weary scepticism!

@ludicity Excellent post I completely get your point - as someone who spent over a decade in data warehousing, seeing "enablers" suddenly pushing data lakes as a solution to everything (completely without ACID in the beginning) gives me similar feelings Industry is poisoned with Gartner's blabber and various kinds of techbros catch up quickly

Thanks for writing this

Someone get the burn cream, stat, ‘cause AI bros got roasted in the hot and spicy (well, unsure on hot but definitely ghost pepper spicy) take on the generative #AI hype train by @ludicity 🔥🌶️👏😂 https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

@ludicity pure brilliance, thanks. I’m going to paraphrase your student cheating idea next time some upper management ignoramus suggests it in a faculty meeting.

@ludicity as someone in cybersecurity, I can say that you are correct that zero trust has meaning, but that meaning is not how people who develop products treat it.

@ludicity If you don't mind me nitpicky (!): there's a typo in "What are are doing as a society?"

I never know whether to mention these or not, since not fixing them doesn't really affect readability or meaning but does cost attention to address 😅

@ludicity

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@ludicity 😂😂🤌🤌💯

@ludicity reads the title: oh, this is gonna be good

2 paragraphs in: yeah I'm enjoying this

@ludicity This is both excellent and the funniest thing I have read in a long time.

Bless you and your Iron Man reference you magnificent creature.

@ludicity a truly magnificent post. 👏

Thank you.

@ludicity

I know most CIOs at Corporations of Significant Size are the same, but dang if you aren’t describing the one at the one I work at.

@ludicity

Your podcast's name made me laugh harder than any joke I heard in the last year. My god.

@ludicity The LLM output of the articles sounds a bit passive-aggressive, can you adjust a bit your prompt for the blog post?

Ok, that joke was tasteless, what I literally hate is that EVERYTHING under the sun nowadays is called an AI. You know, things that 5–10 years would just go by “algorithm”. Or “heuristic”. Today for marketing purposes the same f%cking two if statements are already “AI”.

@ludicity I'm just here like, I want to learn the basics of the systems because the math seems cool and I want to make a bot to play an old game poorly. :V

I really do hope the industry gets over itself soon, the amount of inertia this forest fire of a dump has is terrifying.

@ludicity I may not vibe with the style, but it’s a great article anyway. Thanks!

@ludicity "I don't actually know what 'zero-trust' architecture means, but I've heard stupid people say it enough that it's probably also a term that means something in theory but has been sullied beyond all use in day-to-day life."

Yeah, that's spot-on actually. Zero-trust used to mean "don't allow anybody to do something just because of their IP address" - i.e. place zero trust in the network. Now it somehow means more VPNs. No, I don' t know either.

@ludicity Thank you. I am not a software person at all, but this answers all my suspicions about AI, and tells me I was right.

@ludicity as the only local support for 150+ users I'm fed up with users and managers trying to sell me "AI".. and I'm getting angrier and more confrontational every time, now I just ask them "how much energy and water was wasted in what you just did?"

But lovand behold! This is the future!!

Fuck that noise

@ludicity Love it. A reasonable take.

@ludicity > if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

My God. Yes. YEEESSSSSSSSSS

@ludicity THANK YOU.

@ludicity Your rants are a beacon of sanity in a bleak world of technology circle jerking.

@ludicity Gosh this read is cathartic as fuck

@ludicity that try/catch line was absolutely fucking majestic

@ludicity “How about you remain competitive by fixing your shit?”

Almost word for word what I keep saying at work 🤣🤣🤣

@ludicity
I hear it in the dark when no one is around.
"Just Use Postgres, You Nerd. You Dweeb."

@ludicity Good read.

"...these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this seriously."

LLMs will never have the ability to design software or help designing it, as they cannot be creative (there's no thought process involved).

Training them more and more or adding more computational resources will not change this. It's a bit like with Mr. Creosote in the Monty Python sketch.

@ludicity totally lost it at Synergy Greg. Going to use that a lot from now on.

@ludicity Cathartic read! Thank you 🙏

@ludicity Your post perfectly covers all the various misgivings I felt as this AI snake-oil rush kept gaining speed. Appreciate it a ton. I hope you have a wonderful and joyous week ahead.

@ludicity Thank you for taking the time to so eloquently express this.

@ludicity "average person speaks 10 phonemes per second" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person speaks 0 phonemes per second. Synergy Greg, who lives on blockchain & speaks over 10,000 phonemes per second, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

@ludicity fucking hilarious. 10\10

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@ludicity man, this rules so much. Thank you.

@ludicity That point about organizations that i) cannot reliably manage a CRUD application thinking ii) that rolling a LLM into their stack is gonna revolutionize their warez is *fantastically* spot-on

@ludicity 😁 Masterpiece of wry understatement 👏😁

@ludicity BEST. POST. EVER.

Thank you.

@ludicity I appreciate the segment about you visiting a less developed nation and how that made you feel about how funds in tech are distributed.

@ludicity
This really was a fun read, thank you!

@ludicity I cannot describe how cathartic I found reading this, bless you

@ludicity I (unwittingly) designed a Tshirt just for you...

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@ludicity I really like your writing style. Hearing someone articulate these things is very cathartic

@ludicity it’s “zeitgeist” FWIW