#sturgeonslaw — Public Fediverse posts

*If* what the "AI" [1] grifters say in their sales pitches were true [2], and their LLMs are good at writing prose, summarizing other text, and writing code, then it follows that you should be able to do this:

"<LLM-agent>, write an LLM prompt text that will cause a code-generating LLM to create a Gmail clone, including server-side code and client-side user interface."

Then feed that to CopyLot or whatever, and out pops a Gmail clone.

[1] Bovine excretory corollary to Sturgeon's Law: if an article about "AI" doesn't use scare quotes on (at minimum) the first use of the term, it is guaranteed grifter salesbabble, not actual human thought. If scare quotes *are* properly used, then it's only 90% likely to be grifter #salesbabble.

[2] It isn't.

#grifter #AI #LLM #grift #BS #bullshit #ScareQuotes #corollary #SturgeonsLaw #agent #AgenticAI #agentic

AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/

#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity

Coda: I should have clarified, Q is the #maximum possible #watchability.

Films are, of course, free to #undershoot this mark, and frequently do.

#SturgeonsLaw #crap #hollywood

How does Sturgeon’s Law affect the training data which generative AI and large language models “learn” on and what is the impact on the outputs?

#sturgeonslaw #trainingdata #generativeAI #LLMs #learning #modelgovernance #datagovernance #outcomes #outputs #askingquestions

So it’s time to replace our kitchen cabinets. They’re probably close to 50 years old and the particle board is simply falling apart. Our house is small (around 1000 square feet), so our kitchen is as well.

Suggestions or resources on where to get started? Web searching seems to find mainly:

• Ads
• Articles about whether to replace them
• Articles about how to do it yourself (we don’t have the skills, tools, or inclination)

(Specific recommendations for Portland, OR would be particularly useful.)

Two other things I noticed in this web search:

• Many of the pages seem like they were written by either ChatGPT or a first-year college student trying to pad 2 pages of ideas into a 20-page paper.

• What’s with all the open shelving? Who are these people who (a) are magically immune to dust and (b) have so much space they can spend four feet of shelving on one knickknack they got on their weekend trip to Provence?

#kitchen #cabinets #remodel #portland #pdx #SturgeonsLaw