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[–] 93 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Hello everyone did you need someone in here being a complete pedant? Here I am!

I would spell this slopperator, not sloperator. Putting only one consonant between O and E makes this read "SLOPE-r-ator", like the slope of a hill. Also, there's precedent, if you have a lot of slop, maybe you're sloppy (two p's).

Sloperator sounds like someone who really likes linear regression.

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  • [+] -16 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It had a point and it made that point in one small paragraph with a little personality and no emojis or em-dashes.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I love that you're saying "it" because it's a dolphin.

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My friend came up with “promptologist,” which goes well with all the AI butthole logos

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm an artist, but I lived with three engineers in college and once had to go to a night class and take notes for one of them because I lost a bet. That one note-taking session gave me a huge appreciation for what engineers do.

    Calling LLM querying bullshit "engineering" is monumentally stupid.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It took me 5 years of my life to obtain my M.Eng. and fucking Americans over there spray their diarrhea over their keyboards and think they're the same. Fuck that shit.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Also it's not "vibe coding", but "slopramming".

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  • [+] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    I like the term "prompt fondler".

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There is no way people are actually calling themselves prompt engineers. I refuse

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    As a mechanical engineer, if i hear someone say they are a prompt engineer they’re getting slapped

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago
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    Prompt monkey

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Someone please send this to Merriam-Webster

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Slopvangelical LLM thumper.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Anyone can call themselves an engineer these days. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    We need to change one of the seven deadly sins from sloth to slop.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I’m more like a tardy engineer.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's not AI, it's neural network simulation, nothing fancy, just chain of ponderated nods

    So from now AI → NS

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    ANN (artificial neural networks) is the more accepted terminology

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Maybe accepted but still inaccurate, it's a simulation, not a proper artificial network, which, by definition, would be a proper "hardware".
    And for the "artificial" term, I don't know, everything humanity does is artificial, so it's a bit superfluous.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Not sure these definitions are any better. Why is hardware proper by definition? And where is the software delineation? Would an fpga be hardware or software? How would this differ from our own neurons in that how they fire versus what they do is ill defined? I think trying to pin down where computational work is done biologically is a bit of a pointless exercise right now. Similarly trying to pin out definitions we use in computer science to match those ill understood biological constraints is also premature general ai using non biological computation may end up being vastly different from biology.

    And traditionally we just call things a neural network artificial is implied give we are running on a digital computer.

    Also the statement everything humanity does being artificial is needlessly broad. I don’t think you could argue reproduction of humans is artificial.

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