What are the meetup themes? What brings the interesting people in?

I’m genuinely impressed by the speed of mass slopification raising the toxicity of the whole internet.

And now poisoning human attention and the very ability to reason. At scale.

Makes me think of Kali Yuga, the age of ignorance.

Are we doing this to ourselves? Is it being done to us? Is it some kind of self destruct implanted by aliens in a dark forest scenario?

It’s just… really fascinating.

Also reminds me of this - story

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

Bikeshedding seems to have shifted from code to LLMs which is a step further.

We used to have the very difficult task of producing working scalable maintainable code describing complex systems which do what we need them to do.

Now on top of it we have the difficult task of producing this code using constantly mutating complex nondeterministic systems.

We are the circus bear riding a bicycle on a high wire now being asked to also spin plates and juggle chainsaws.

Maybe singularity means that time sunk into managing LLMs is equal to time needed to manually code similar output in assembly or punch cards.

Stupid but industrious and prolific. Also very confident.

Sounds exactly like every 19 year old programmer. I'd describe myself at 19 in exactly the same way

But still more skilled at the creation of software, from a well scoped natural language description, than perhaps 99% of humans.

My dentist is more skilled at dentistry than 99.999% of humans. Why would I want to replace her with a machine which is more skilled than 99% of non dentists but 1000 times worse by an educated experienced dentist?

The question is, who made the new framework? Was it vibe coded by someone who does not understand its code?

No, it was created by our team of engineers over the last three years based on years of previous PhD research.

Care, initiative, long-term thinking, clear communication, collaboration skills, soft skills, candor, technical expertise.

An infinitely patient and somewhat schizophrenic teacher.

For the time being. Their manager is under constant pressure to lay them off and replace them with “ai”.

Which is fine if we are fine with pretending to do our jobs.

But deep down I know that slop is noise and words no longer represent understanding.

not everything is slop, sometimes you can just use it like a brainstorm session to see if you missed something.

That’s 385g vs Bose QC45’s 240g (8.5oz).