I’ve been quite unwell for the last few weeks. Heart failure is a PITA at the best of times. Mix it with 94 degree temperatures, and it becomes very unpleasant. Couple that with a persistent chest infection, and I have been pretty knocked out for a while. It’s done nothing for my sociability, and even less for my sense of humour. I haven’t been fit to talk to, even if I’d wanted to.
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Ah, when venture capitalists think they can software! I will drink every single one of their tears with Joy! 
Why do they think the industry brought fourth millions of lines of code in database modification control tools such as liquibase? Just for funsies? Oh wait, they don’t know about any of those. Because they have no clue about software. Sucks to be them, I guess! 
Once this post mortem is over, there will be one cause of the issue: User error due to misunderstanding of the LLM and what the prompts actually cause under the hood. It’s scandalous that he got a refund. I don’t take care of proper production isolation and accidentally erase the production database because I’m too dumb to secure the environment and don’t even have a backup? Ain’t nobody refunding me, I’m afraid. The whole company will just go quietly bankrupt while buried under a mountain of lawsuits. Because that’s software.
At the end of the day, LLMs are a force multiplier. The problem is, they tend to multiply stupidity a lot more efficiently than expertise.
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My sympathy. Hope you feel better soon.
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Sounds like LLMs need an AI psychiatrist to help deal with their hallucinations.
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Oh, they don’t have a problem with their hallucinations… 
Also interesting: When giving an explanation of its action, the LLM said “I panicked”. But obviously, there’s no such thing as panick in an LLM. In other words, it’s hallucinating even as it is explaining what it was doing (not surprising, as it has no idea what it is doing). In other words, what the thing is saying that happened is probably not what actually happened. Hell, it’s even possible that the user deleted the DB themselves without realizing and the AI is hallucinating the entire story.
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The dog ate my homework
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That’s another possibility, of course… I’m pretty sure with the right prompts you can get the AI to confess to accidentally destroying your work if you need it to… 
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Completely agreeing with Jedidia’s assessment of that situation. That chatbot can’t even explain what happened/what it did and can’t be trusted to fix it.
Vibe coding is the IT equivalent of hiring truck drivers without a license.
In general, I would recommend using these copilots either for hobbies only (if your weekend project “fails”, no company goes bankrupt, and you still learned something new) or for business things that you have a clue about and can verify.
Also, how you ask, manipulates the answer. This guy said he asked “did you delete the db without permission?” and the answer he got was free improvisation upon that theme…
If you ask:
- Tell me why eating chocolate is healthy
- Tell me why eating chocolate is unhealthy
- Does eating chocolate have an impact on health?
A large language model will argue three different ways with confidence… Replace “chocolate” and “health” by whatever topic.
I get better responses with yes-no questions.
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In case anyone is paying attention, there have been huge quakes almost daily for a while now. Russia had a 8.0. Triggered tsunami warnings far and wide.
And now this
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That’s the problem with geology:
“We’re sure there’s going to be an earthquake here in the near future!” “Oh dear, when exactly?” “Dunno, could be any moment within the next 5000 years or so?”
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Apparently Trump has been trolled by bagpipes while trying to monologue at the opening of yet another golf course…I would think they would definitely be difficult to talk over 
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I’m still fairly certain they were invented to slowly drive any occupying force insane thus loosening their grip on the lands and then FREEEDOOOOM!
Then we put the joke pipes away and take out the Uilleann Pipes and make sweet melodies 
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I was fortunate enough to attend a talk about her research just as it was coming to light, back when I was on my training course for tourism. We were learning all about best practices for independent and local historians so it was a treat to get to see someone in the field discuss their method during a pivotal moment in their findings. It’s a weird thing to say considering the subject matter.
The lockdown certainly played a role in delaying these excavations but it’s good to hear they’re going ahead.
I would’ve sourced a better site than the indoUK but I’m lazy, best I can do is an archive ph link
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I have been following this story. One report talked about how maligned pregnant unwed girls were , then interviewed a church leader who blamed the attitude of the locals…yeah…and we can safely guess who helped the locals form those attitudes.
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Must have been one of those other false gods Moses was warned about, it certainly wasn’t our Lord and Saviour. Nuh uh, no way. Now, which pagan god would you like us to canonise as a saint next? Eenie, meenie, miiinie…. MAEBH!
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