The chances are very high. People always have technical problems, and they are also impatient enough to use an LLM. Why spend hours reading stackoverflow, and try solutions that aren’t exactly what you’re currently facing? That takes time, effort and improvisation skills.

Meanwhile, you could type a question to an LLM, and get an answer in a few seconds. In the best case scenario, you’ll get something useful out of it, but you could also start another wild goose chase. Humans are lazy, so they’ll fall into this trap very easily. It’s a gamble.

It’s usually some random thought that is in the right neighborhood, but not quite spot on. A human troubleshooter would straight up say that it’s impossible to tell you what the problem is, so you would need to narrow it down by testing a few things.

An LLM just says that you need to update drivers or whatever. If the problem is caused by something obscure (like this one), an LLM will never be able to figure it out. This kind of stuff apparently just doesn’t exist in the training data, so there’s no way for the model to extrapolate and reach the right conclusion. Instead, it will continuously interpolate with the data it has, and you’ll end up with an infinite list of wrong answers.

Sycophancy really doesn’t help either. If you have any ideas what might cause the problem, the LLM will cling to those, no matter how wrong you might be. Troubleshooting requires critical thinking and LLMs don’t seem to be very good at that.

Yeah, that’s a pretty safe approach. You never know which parts are crude averages of the training data and which parts got interpolated.

If you happen have subject matter expertise, you can tell where it all went wrong. On the other hand, at that point you already know what the right answer is so why bother asking an LLM in the first place. It’s a very paradoxical situation.

You need to brew very gently. Moka pots are finicky and they don’t forgive your mistakes.

If you’re ok with any random coffee, it’s really easy, and that’s why they are so popular. If you want to make good coffee, you really need to know what you’re doing.

See also: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BfDLoIvb0w4&ra=m

To operate the hardware. We’ve had firmware as long as we’ve had electronics.

The real question is: Why does a dishwasher need to be connected to the internet? That just opens it up to all sorts of online threats and creates more problems than it solves.

This is what I call a “wild goose chase”. LLMs like to do that sort of thing, and it’s your job to notice that and pull the plug as soon as possible. If you’re not qualified to evaluate output, the risk of an aimless never ending chase increases dramatically. The good thing is, that you’ll learn to be more careful next time. Take those half hallucinated answers with a spoon of salt.

Nowadays, you would just set the file permissions to read only. Technically, you could also do it with USB drives and external hard disks too.

Sounds like a permanent solution then.

There’s also an anti-warning. According to this sales pitch, I should book this vacation if I want to see tornados.

It’s all vibes now that Mistral Le Chat was renamed to Vibe.

Why do you ask? Did you find something interesting?

Oh wow! So charging 1500€ for mid tier performance will end up being a good deal? People are calling the steam machine overpriced and dead on arrival, but what if all the other manufacturers end up following in Steam’s footsteps?

If you’re binging a particular show and you know the exact length of the intro, just set that value as the long skip and use the relevant keyboard shortcut every time.

Well, I guess Valve will have to wait for the AI bubble to pop before chip manufacturers have the spare capability for small clients like Valve. Before that, don’t expect any big changes.

Actually already found out a reasonable candidate. Someone else pointed out that ti-me in Japanese is a slur.

But what’s the slur they’re hunting if they catch “time”? Is it tim, ime, ti, me or something else?

Hard to tell. However, I can tell you that I don’t miss my 4060 at all. My current AMD card works flawlessly in Bazzite. Didn’t need to figure out any workarounds, trickery or hackery.

But sticking with nvidia will cost you your sanity. Besides, switching doesn’t have to be super expensive if you get a used card.

I guess they noticed that pretty much nobody uses FB any more. It’s mostly just bots and dead people who have that account.

Can’t say I’m excited about any of these options. I think we need a movie about hyperloop failing catastrophically to make the comparison easier. There already are lots of movies about AI taking over the world and a handful of movies where dinosaur experiments go horribly wrong. Haven’t seen anything about a hyperloop disasters.

Would be cool though. Imagine a hyperloop getting stuck under the pacific ocean. If you open the door, the vacuum will kill you. If you somehow manage that, you’re still under a bezillion tonnes of water, so good luck with that. If you still somehow survive, and make it to the surface, you’re still bezillion km away from shore. The protagonist of that movie is going to need some ridiculous amounts of plot armor, or we’re going to roll the credits after 15 minutes.