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        How can you not? Like there are specific tells as the other user pointed out, but aside from that so much AI slop just has this absurd uncanny valley quality that Im actually kinda blown away that other people don’t immediately see it.

        • Ethan
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          I’m not sure what to tell you. I just don’t see what you do. And I never bother to look at a meme close enough to notice the kind of details the other user pointed out.

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            For this picture in particular, there’s something about the screaming guy that’s setting off AI alarm bells to me. You see that sort of facial expression a lot with AI pictures when it’s trying to generate someone yelling or distressed.

            Ironically, the human brain is so good at picking up patterns that after you’ve seen enough AI slop you begin to notice some of the tells for otherwise realistic pictures. That’s not to say that people could discern ALL AI pictures, but I think it is true for most of the lazy, slop pictures that are generated.

            • Ethan
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              25 days ago

              I guess I just don’t see enough memes to have picked up on that

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                The text is hiding a lot of details, but the nurse is pushing a normal chair, as if it was a wheelchair.

                And the composition gives AI vibes as well. But all of that could also just be because the photo is poorly staged.

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        The hands on the guy to the left are fucked. The far one’s toes are tiny. Why is the nurse pushing a regular chair like a wheel chair?

  • @[email protected]
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    The guy in the back with no text is me trouble shooting for 8 hrs when I could have read 5 minutes of documentation.

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      This happens when I outsource reading the docs to AI agents.

      wait… there was a function for that? Why did you tell me to build this house of cards

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      At this occasion I think it adds to the insanity. It makes it look like the nurse is a pationt too, with her trying to roll away a normal chair

      • Redex
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        My thoughts are the same, as long as it’s not so bad you can’t not notice it, I think it’s fine.

      • Lem Jukes
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        Yes but not when it’s something that’s basically just a stock photo. Ill take a big ass watermark across real faces over slop any and everyday.

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    Tried to understand what options were available on a JS package, which mangled the options before passing them on to another JS package, which mangled the options before passing them onto another JS package, …

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    Most recently:

    I had to parse an html table with a column of printed python dictionaries, the dicts wrapped a mixed delimiter list of SQL statements of various types.

    It’s truly an abomination.

    I’ve never had to use pythons AST module to parse data before…

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        It was 900mb raw and compressed to 1.6mb after cleaning.

        That’s how much junk data there was.

        Combing through that log is the only way to prove and identify where a big was introduced so I can fix it.

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    At my last job, there was no planning of work/projects. Like, there was a general plan of “We need feature X by Q3 and here’s what it should do”, but nothing about breaking work down into smaller units or prioritizing different tasks.

    The manager would drop an email: “Hey, can you do …” and that was it. Now it’s another thing to throw down the waterfall. Big surprise, the same bastard would harp about how the project was underperforming!

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    I’ve been building my own PHP and JavaScript libraries without actually using any existing open-source ones.

    Self-taught, didn’t learn about the fun stuff until recently.

    Now I’m so far behind in technology, I feel outdated.

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    I tried out shell coding with copilot (xml manipulation and merging).
    I gave up. Not worth the sanity.

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    I know this post is more about the committing on LLM “fixes”, but find the other reasons more interesting.

    Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:

    • lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
    • Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
    • string handling
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    Tried to do a proper analysis of a bug in homologation that’s preventing our future customer to test the product, while N+3 and N+4 demand twice-daily updates through video call with ten other managers on it. Two weeks of proper madness, that was.

    Stopped the meetings for one fucking day and we had it fixed before 5pm.