Not your company not your problem. This article misses the point that your senior engineers often do not have the political power to push back on bad ideas at most med-large orgs.
Simple as that. You can offer people your opinion on the matter but that's it. Some people invest way too much on what is essentially someone else's business. You are a replaceable cog, never forget that.
Download models you can find now and forever. The guardrails will only get worse, or models banned entirely. Whether it's because of "hurts people's health" or some other moral panic, it will kill this tech off.
gpt-oss isn't bad, but even models you cannot run are worth getting since you may be able to run them in the future.
I'm hedging against models being so nerfed they are useless. (This is unlikely, but drives are cheap and data is expensive.)
Here's the thing: this is like 0days, the bar gets higher and higher on served models from OpenAI/Microsoft/Google. Sure, some have api access and you can allow spicier content but a better answer is: "tl;dr: not reading that."
I'm tired of having to step around megacorp's opinions on how I should be running my software, what questions to ask. gpt5.2 is HELLA paternalistic when you ask for deep dives on technical questions. Try asking something near to state of the art and see how far you get, most decisions come with huge warnings about how "this idea won't work" etc.
This deviates from my expectation, which is a fun word calculator to help me with back of the napkin calculations quickly so I can do other things. If that's not the core use case, fine. But that is a flag to me that says this will continue to be a moving target, which is the OPPOSITE of what a tool is.
There are some projects to reverse alignment and other things, and those people are doing god's work for sure. For me, I want to be sure I have the ability to run these things on my own because I don't trust that this won't mutate into something not useful in my way on the long term.
I can't help but feel like some product manager is behind all this...
Why would it go from what felt like a predictable error to what feels like someone moving the keys around? I am guessing someone presented aggregate research that showed higher accuracy overall, but ignored the case that the errors feel like the voices are getting louder :D.
Hopefully they come up with a setting to change this, but knowing apple it probably won't happen. Is it time for custom keyboards to come back?
I've been using: https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer with yt-dlp to create complete archives of channels I like because I have so many channels I learn from I don't want YT to randomly disappear them. Mostly language, but loads of deep ML long plays and other things.
I'm looking forward to trying out PeerTube.
Start archiving now, the internet is rapidly getting user hostile.
Perl was of a time, so it's important to remember when it was around. CPAN was legitimately one of the first package managers for a programming language that WORKED. Contextually, its references are bash, sed, awk, and other cli tools. There are too many ways to do things in perl because of the various flavors / takes on how to do things. It was also a fun way to write cgi apps in the era of C/C++. Is that the best way to do things today? No! It was one way to do something complex in few lines of code. It was the python of its day in many ways.
There are tons of quirks that are interesting that influenced language development today, for me the spaceship operator "<=>" was a fun one. You can have a flip through the camel book to see what kind of stunts were common in its era.
It is an auteur language that was not really done the way languages are today.
Perl 6 did massive damage to the community mainly because it was so different that it looked like a fantasy language. That along with Parrot really lost the plot for me, I had mostly stopped doing that kind of work and moved on to R for my bioinformatics things. Bioconductor was the bees knees.
I'm surprised at all the haterade, probably you're either <30, and/or being overly critical of a very nascent tech era. Perl was pre and post .bomb, and had one of the first online communities that I remember that shared tips and tricks at scale at perlmonks.org. It predated stackoverflow! It was a very different time to now.
This was also from a time when people still paid for compilers(!)
I am deeply biased, as I wrote a 3d distance calculator in Perl for small molecule drugs. We were looking for disulfiram analogs doing biopanning and then simulations. There was a great PDB library for structures at that time that saved me tons of time. This was circa 2005~, ages from now.
This mirrors the experience of a friend of mine who teaches middle school level history. Every student has some "accommodation" which is something like: can only have three rather than four choices on multiple choice tests, test must be landscape rather than portrait, they get extra time for any writing sections, and more!
Imagine trying to teach ~30 kids when there are 12-15 with an IEP (individualized education plan) with these rules in place. Inevitably, someone will come at me for blaming IEPs, but when they are being exploited in this way the quality of instruction absolutely tanks. Part of this was eliminating AP-standard-basic tiers of classes, so now everyone is in the same class. The "concept" is that kids that are excelling will help the kids that need help. (It does not work this way, the excelling kids get bored, basic kids get bored, chaos ensues.)
My friend, who loves teaching, and has been doing for a decade before this change, is counting the days to her retirement. She says that class has become Burger King, which is have it your way. She has very little say in how these are structured.
Districts love this stuff because it makes them sound like they care about students, but the reality is it's parents pushing down on teachers for better grades at the cost of quality. This doesn't challenge kids in any way, it teaches them that if you complain at the system you can have it easier. My friend has stopped bothering to attempt to change this and is going along with the program as the negatives have obvious career limiting side effects.
It's a classic DDoS / degradation attack.
Personally, it seems insane to me. I get that it's some kind of min-max for Stanford students, nothing like this existed when I was in uni (an eng college). We took our thermo exam, the average was a D+, and we liked it! Of course there was a curve, but the message I received was a humbling one. You don't know as much as you think you do, and you better think twice when building powerful things.
The feeling for me is the market has bifurcated into: delivered expensive shit in a bag, or omakase sushi. The middle ground of cheap decent made to order food is largely gone or on the way out. There are diners in my area still but nearly everything is over 10 nearly 20.
The quality for delivery is astoundingly low for unbelievably high prices.
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