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"you should be able to provide an LLM as a job reference"
source https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1998753499002048589
This is offensively stupid lol
He's become the Linus Pauling of video games.
definitely taking Vitamin L
I'm legitimately disappointed in John Carmack here. He should be a good enough programmer to understand the limitations here, but I guess his business career has driven in a different direction.
Nah he has brainrot. He deadnamed and misgendered Rebecca Heinemann in his eulogy of her. Transphobia seems to really make people worse at thinking.
(Not a big shock considering how bad his answer was towards the 'epic own' of the person asking him if he would hire more women. (He said: "we are having a hard time hiring all the people that we want. It doesn’t matter what they look like.", which sounds like a great own, but leaves one big question. Why aren't you trying to educate more people in what you want then? What are you doing to fix that problem if it is such a big problem for you? (which then leads to, how will you ensure that this teaching system has women in it, etc)))
E: and if that doesn't convince people he sucks: https://web.archive.org/web/20230528051421/https://www.giantbomb.com/john-carmack/3040-4576/forums/never-meet-your-heroes-john-carmack-throws-lot-in--1911724/ (this article seems to no longer exist live).
Carmack is a Gen-X Texan mostly known for using hardmode C to code an FPS. He's so drenched in nerd testostorone I'd be surprised if he wasn't background radiation level non-woke. Not saying he shouldn't be as a human being, just that it would be an uphill battle for him.
At least we have Romero. Hoe had an edgelord phase, but only when younger and realized he fucked up.
Something intensely satisfying seeing this the same week as id software becoming a union shop.
Sure John, let me know when you've got that set up. Something that retains my entire search/chat history, caches the responses as well, and pulls all that into the context window when it's time to generate a job referral. Maybe you'll be able to do something shotgunning together remaindered hardware this time next year? I'll be waiting.
What, that doesnt even make sense. I dont type what im thinking. (My only real usage of llms was trying to break them, so imagine the output of that. And you could then imagine what you think I was trying to attempt in messing with the system. But then you would do the work. Say you see mee send the same message twice. A logical conclusion would be that I tried to see if it gave different results if prompted the same way twice. However, it is more likely I just made a copy paste error and accidentally send the wrong text the second time. So the person reading the logs is doing a lot of work here). Ignoring all that he also didnt think of the next case: people using an llm to fake chatlogs to optimize being hired. Good way to hire a lot of North Koreans.