autoplag isn’t bad when supervised by a human

even when I supervise it, it’s bad

my god you people are a whole kind of poster and it fucking shows

previous stubsack guest star Cursor rejoins the show, using a shitty liarsynth to automatically tell users broken behaviour is expected (cw: orange site), followed by people mass-killing their subscriptions

Earlier today Cursor, the magical AI-powered IDE started kicking users off when they logged in from multiple machines. Like,you’d be working on your desktop, switch to your laptop, and all of a sudden you're forcibly logged out. No warning, no notification, just gone.

Naturally, people thought this was a new policy.

So they asked support.

And here’s where it gets batshit: Cursor has a support email, so users emailed them to find out. The support peson told everyone this was “expected behavior” under their new login policy

One problem. There was no support team, it was an AI designed to 'mimic human responses'

haven’t gotten into the replies to look for sneers yet but I bet there will be some

oh look it's a loadbearing "just" in the wild. better hope you can shore that fucker up with some facts

Try writing it out in ASCII

my poster in christ, what in the fuck are you on about. stop prompting LLMs and go learn some things instead

some other weird way that it hasn’t been specifically trained on and I bet it actually performs better

"no no see, you just need to prompt it different. just prompt it different bro it'll work bro I swear bro"

god, every fucking time

despite that one episode of Leverage where they did some laundering by way of gym memberships, not every shady bullshit business that burns way more than they make can just swizzle the numbers!

(also if you spend maybe half a second thinking about it you’d realize that economies of scale only apply when you can actually have economies of scale. which they can’t. which is why they’re constantly setting more money on fire the harder they try to make their bad product seem good)

this post gave me a couple rounds of whiplash but this was the hardest turn on the rollercoaster:

when they tried to summarize the findings of growth mindset and quickly dismissing it without couching in the ongoing reproducibility issue in psychology

do you people come off a factory line like this?

ah, we're here once again

these fucking ghouls

edit: to the absolute human shitstain that downvoted this

ugh. don't do that :<

have the balls to reply why.

this isn't highschool, no-one owes you homework

(a bit of advice: instead treat that as a reason to reflect as to why. you might learn something)

impressive, I didn't realize you could dig further

what continues to be absolutely fucking hilarious about this is that this sort of thing already fucking exists in mainland china, in the form of a boxshop you walk into where everything is tagged with RFID stickers. slap the basket into location, pay with phone, leave. and it exists based on 2010+ technology, that's fairly reliable.

(minor note: I haven't seen this in person but I've seen coverage of it, and I've worked with all the actual constituent technologies so I'm quite aware of how real this is and how well it can work, barring all the fuzzy in-practice biz-rule shit that inevitably has to be handled and solved (such as all real-world systems))

None of this please

Reasons are unclear (as usual when safety people leave OpenAI).

no, you fucking dipshit. the reason is crystal clear. he was on the team that attempted to oust sammyboi, and was on borrowed time from the moment it failed

jfc how are these people this clueless