Wandering Adventure Party

Any scenario where "AI" works well enough to be in wide use long term means mass unemployment, wholesale political capture of media and cultural industries, dysfunctional products, and other continuing large-scale harmsThe thankfully bullshit "AGI" scenario would just be an unending clusterfuckWhich is why "this is shit and you're a fool for using it" is the optimistic takeThe best case scenario for the rest of us is that we have to clean up after a bunch of fools in the tech industry

I keep seeing people respond to observations that these tools seem to output highly vulnerable code with numerous flaws with claims that the output runs faster so it must be of a high quality. ‍️

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116091145441116888I used to have a decent sideline as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for technical writing. All that work disappeared because LLMs took over and I refuse to use fabrication tools, esp. not for work where accuracy mattersSo, now, when I see the people running tech writing teams complain that all their SMEs use LLMs to plagiarise and fabricate, I’m not particularly sympathetic.This is specifically a mess you were warned about but decided to make and sit in anyway. FAFO.

“the other Turing test – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”https://heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/the-other-turing-test/> I am seeing the ground being laid for atrocities I don’t yet know how to describe. It always starts with one group of “others” who are transgressing some warped concept of virtue and morality. It never ends with them.