Fuck AI

If only computers had a much more efficient and reliable way to tell time

This is exactly what Ed Zitron is talking about when he says AI psychosis is more widespread than anyone wants to admit. Acting like you made a dumb mistake by not constraining your LLM tool when the dumb mistake was thinking this requires an LLM tool and then writing “lessons learned” is cuckoo bananas behavior.

This costs so little that my brain would burn more value in noodle calories just doing the math to figure out how much I pay for like 1 joule of electricity.

I'm extremely confused. Why is he checking the time every hour 14 times a day? I understand he's trying to test AI out so he's doing something trivial, but I feel like I'm having an aneurism reading this. This is still not an optimal way to do reminders. Am I just really dumb or is this nonsense?

Has this energy

What an unhinged thing to rely on an llm for.

Had a Cron job running

So they set up a Cron job to ask an llm to remind them of something that the cron job itself could have just reminded them?

Everything about this is so wrong lol

Why use an LLM to solve a problem you could solve using an alarm clock and a post it.

I don't... quite get this. Even assuming the LLM made legit queries, you're ok with paying 75 cents for every time you perform what's essentially a web search? Then add in the fact that it hallucinates constantly and you've got how many times a day your search results are blatant lies that you paid 75 cents for it to tell you?

That post reads like slop vomit that could be one paragraph written by a human but for some reason is twenty for the slop parrot.

Why does it seem like he repeats himself in a slightly different way? Did he get an LLM to summarize what happened, and then summarize the summary? Who talks like this?

Motherfucker blew 20$ in a night, and extrapolated it to several hundred bucks a month. All for what is essentially a labeled alarm. You know, something your phone can already do, no AI necessary, for FREE.

This technology is a bad joke. It needs to die.

Guy apparently has never heard of a fucking clock.

Why even use an LLM for that? That seems like the completely wrong use-case for an LLM.

Pairing an automated process with something that costs money without error checking is like putting a credit card on file with a hooker. You're definitely running the risk of waking up broke.

You thought computing had become too bloated in recent times? Now you get to kill a tree a day to perform the same job as a 0.10€ microcontroller

Didn't even write the tweet by himself holy shit

Maslow’s hammer. “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Abraham Harold Maslow in 1966.

We never learn.

People who mastered calendar, clock and notes apps in their smartphones be like:

How does it tell that 30 Minutes have passed to know to check for daytime again? Better ask every second, if 30 Minutes have passed. Now to fix the problem of knowing if a second has passed. Oh boy the future is great!

I think he used a wrong list for "The problem" because the only answers is "I'm stupid".

look out the window ya stupid fucks

I wonder how much he paid in addition to that to generate that tweet.

lmao 3-4 pack of instant noodle price for "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes 😭🤣

This is like a CS 101 concept. How do AI bros not know how to use an API other than Anthropic’s?

https://sunrise-sunset.org/api

Imagine being such a dumbass that you’ll both do this and then brag about it on the internet