Problem: Reviewers do not provide constructive criticism or at least reasons for paper to be rejected. Solution: Fake it with a clanker.

Genius.

To be more clear:

300000 swedish krona = ~672 690 czech koruna

700000 swedish krona = ~1 569 611 czech koruna

Was TPOT a Twitter thing?

If I recall correctly, TPOT literally means “That Part Of Twitter”

Joke’s on him, Know-Nothing Know-It-All is also a trope.

tl;dr: AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI…

Just one thing that caught my attention:

AI code review helps developers. We … found that 72.6% of developers who use Copilot code review said it improved their effectiveness.

Only 72.6%? So why the heck are the other almost 30% of devs using it? For funsies? They don’t say.

You’d think due to self selection effects most people who wouldn’t find using Copilot effective wouldn’t use it.

The only way that number makes sense to me is if people were force to use Copilot and… no, wait, that checks out.

I don’t see the problem, that looks like a typical McMansion to me.

Also, it’s nice the AI included a dedicated room for snorting cocaine (powder room).

all 19,797 submissions and 75,800 reviews (to one conference, in one year)

tired: Dead Internet Theory wired: Dead Conferences Theory

A week-ish ago I said that Mike Masnick is twice as annoying about AI as Dare Obasanjo.

I retract my statement

I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:

First the positives:

• I think he’s actually an experienced software engineer.
• I think he care to check and test the LLM output.

But, by his own admission:

• He uses LLM for tasks he knows well (So easier to check and little negative impact on learning)
• He works mostly on hobby projects (so no obligation to actually maintain the stuff)
• He can choose to not use new libraries (which in a professional setting is not always a luxury you can afford)

Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.

I wondered if this should be called a shitpost or an effortpost, then I wondered what would something that is both be called and I came up with “constipationpost”.

So, great constipationpost?