I was a weird kid and had this growing up

Beep boop fellow clanker.

It feels like Neil Breen directed this dub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BfsbZOuTI

Posted this in another community but I’ll leave this here too:

So back when I worked at Amazon I was playing around with AWS Skillbuilder. They don’t pay for any other training materials for SDEs (well they used to have ACloudGuru but ended that).

I was like “they charge money for this so it can’t be that bad right?” Well

1/3 of the courses were actually what I’d call “watchable”

1/3 were just SEO Blogspam masquerading as information

And the remaining 1/3 clearly used a text to speech software that was dreadful. It was incomprehensible.

I say all this to say that if there was ever a list of companies I would trust to do AI Dubs Amazon would be the bottom of that list.

Do you use fingerprinting instead? Or what’s the mechanism you use?

That’s definitely part of it. But some of it is also because marketers are always looking for a way to shill their garbage and pretend it’s “word of mouth “

You seem to be taking this a bit personally…

No he’s one of the good pedos

Wasn’t their entire thing that we needed free speech and shouldn’t let big tech be in charge of that?

Oh that only applies when people say things they want to hear? Got it.

This feels like one of those paid fluff pieces companies put out so that smaller ones feel like they’re “missing out”

My favorite was when I was at Amazon watching leadership do the mental gymnastics to justify the move. At some point they just said it’s happening and we’re not listening to you.

This is a drop in the bucket for Amazon, sorry “Anthropic”.

No? Haven’t heard that one.

Nah. Profits are growing, but not as fast as they used to. Need more layoffs and cut salaries. That’ll make things really efficient.

Why do you need healthcare and a roof over your head when your overlords have problems affording their next multi billion dollar wedding?

Yeah like that was the point was to centralize everything on electric power so you can work on swapping out things like coal for more sustainable forms of electricity.

How that is a negative for data centers are some mental gymnastics I’m not willing to make.

MBA dweebs running VC firms wanna desperately replace people with AI for short term profits.

Please let it be in charge of a large portfolio of assets

You mean 60% of YouTube ? Never.

Yeah I was trying to pull out a nested react component and styles out of a larger component that got to be almost 1500 lines. Claude and GPT both struggled to get down what styles were required and what that subcomponent was actually doing. And generating tests around just made a fuck ton of spaghetti.

Which is fine. LLMs don’t have to be great at everything. But it’d be nice if people stopped saying I’m gonna be out of a job because of em.

Also a good warning: I just had to completely rewrite an mcp server I had Claude build because when I needed to update it, the whole server was one giant if/else statement and utterly unmaintainable.

I’ve noticed that in some of my bootstrapped code (also an MCP server :) ). I think it tends to bias towards single file solutions so it tends to be a lot less maintainable.

They’re great for bootstrapping in my experience but then really fall apart when you need it to do something surgical on a larger codebase.