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Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-03 at 00:51

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3436005

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 17:44

in which karpathy goes “eh, fuckit”:

skipping past the implicit assumption of “well, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticks”, the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain “well, it often just doesn’t work like we keep promising it does”, imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy

I’m left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me

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Written by nightsky@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 18:35

So after billions of investment, and gigawatt-hours of energy, it’s now “not too bad for throwaway weekend projects”. Wow, great. Let’s fire all the programmers already!

Apart from whatever the fuck that process is, it is not engineering.

And to think that people hated on Visual Basic once… in comparison to this stuff, it was the most solid of solid foundations.

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Toot

Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 18:57

So after billions of investment, and gigawatt-hours of energy, it’s now

on the level of a ‘build your own website’ site. They are the wysiwyg users now.

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