Notices by josef (jk@mastodon.social), page 5

i was extremely surprised at how practically useless it was, actually, given the tone of the conversation i've been hearing for the last couple of months. there was a kind of precision and mastery that people keep trying to get across, like the machine was some kind of wizard. and the thing is, it IS very good at explaining code you give it. very impressive at inferring meaning, summarization. but when it comes to building stuff itself, its knowledge is just too lossily-compressed to succeed

my verdict on this after fucking around with it for about a day: it's just really not ready. there's a huge gulf between "can impressively do some stuff" and "can actually be used at all in any capacity" and it's firmly on the useless side currently. i've seen a lot of discussion about how it "sometimes" hallucinates stuff or "occasionally" makes mistakes that catch you out. but it isn't occasional, it's constant! e.g. every non-trivial bit of code tries to use an API call that doesn't exist etc

every two weeks i go on ebay and look at new-ish thinkpads. but i never hit 'buy'. because really i don't want a new thinkpad. i want to keep using my x200s. i love the x200s. the whole 'looking at new laptops' thing. it's just deflection. what i actually want is for fucking everybody to stop putting a quantity of javascript onto every web page that unrolls into billions of CPU cycles worth of shit to deal with just to show A Content