This is possibly one of the more cursed single sentences I've ever seen in a job posting
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Asta [AMP]replied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Right? And, well, actually, even the testing is probably difficult without introducing the idea of "reasonable error"... and considering the "reasonable error" for these types of systems is "0. precisely 0. it's a fucking airplane."
welp -
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] agreed. Since this is how they wrote their pitch to developers interested in applying, though, I suspect they may well go bankrupt before realizing that.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] "we are improving drug delivery through injections by adding noise to our hand motions!"
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@aud @glyph @xgranade I almost wonder if the target market is actually phase one/investigatory contracts: banking on a stronger bid (because you may trick the fool on the other side with Today's Hokum) and never planning to go beyond that.
COBOL always makes me think "IRS" out of the gate, but I guess there's *some* bank/etc. code out there that might be under the kind of credulous management that might toss a few million at this kind of "maybe it'll work"
Probably giving them too much credit…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Honestly, I suspect half the startups throwing "LLM" or "AI" in their company descriptions are basically just an elaborate funding scam in one form or another. I'm sure some business types without a foundation in the field they're attempting to wade into genuinely don't realize the technology literally can't even; I'm sure others will quietly pivot away from LLMs for it (it's possible they're not even seriously considering them); and then some others probably have some sort of money loop where the money goes to contracting all their friends or who knows what the fuck.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I should just learn COBOL and then get funding to create COBOL 2: COBOLLIN' since it seems like there's a lot of money to rake in there.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️replied to Asta [AMP] last edited by
@aud @SnoopJ @glyph @ireneista COBOL has classes now.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] wait, if I want funding, I don't think I even have to know COBOL before pitching "CO-BALLIN'"
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Asta [AMP]replied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] oh good, I'll take one*
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] (I'm just going into founder mode)
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️replied to Irenes (many) last edited by
@ireneista @aud @SnoopJ @glyph What's that about FORTRAN?
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️replied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@ireneista @aud @SnoopJ @glyph What's that about C++?
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Asta [AMP]replied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Is this a riff of ruby on rails?! Because that's kind of amazing
Could do a whole ass sequence on that!
Python on Pipes
C on the Sea
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Irenes (many)replied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
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Asta [AMP]replied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] "no no, C++ is good now, you just need to use C++46!"
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@xgranade @aud @SnoopJ @glyph you know how in tarot, death represents change?
yeah sometimes in technology a system just gets too large and inflexible and there's only one type of change left that it can really experience ><
(but also see our recent blog post "The Cybernetic Bias", because we do think that bias is in play here)
