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Santiago Greco

@fsg.bsky.social

Software Developer, mate & meme connoisseur🧉👨🏽‍💻 Born in Argentina, living in Italy | Master in Mass Media & Politics | former translator and journalist now writing mostly code | Staff at @journalismfestival.com Writing in English 🇬🇧, Spanish 🇦🇷 and Italian 🇮🇹

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

Dan Simpson@danpsimpson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Using natural language prompting almost certainly makes LLMs a) need to be larger than they could be, b) less efficient and reliable than they could be, and c) much harder to use than they could be.

Santiago Greco@fsg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Having a linguistics background I think there's a huge misconception when it comes to prompting LLM's, the vast majority thinks that coding is "hard" compared with speaking a natural language. Well it's actually the contrary from a utilitarian POV less verbs at your disposal => easier to be specific

Phil Steitz@psteitz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is going to be the big “find out.” The hard part of producing good software that does useful things is getting real clarity on what those useful things are. Coding forces dimension reduction because its language is so primitive. Without that back pressure, we get slop.

Santiago Greco@fsg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Having a linguistics background I think there's a huge misconception when it comes to prompting LLM's, the vast majority thinks that coding is "hard" compared with speaking a natural language. Well it's actually the contrary from a utilitarian POV less verbs at your disposal => easier to be specific

Santiago Greco@fsg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Having a linguistics background I think there's a huge misconception when it comes to prompting LLM's, the vast majority thinks that coding is "hard" compared with speaking a natural language. Well it's actually the contrary from a utilitarian POV less verbs at your disposal => easier to be specific

Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 6mo ago

Generative AI is a slop generation machine by default. You have to put in a lot of work to get something of quality from it.

Santiago Greco@fsg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him

Alt: Meme of GTA San Andreas character respawning in a white tank top walks down a street with the words "okay here we go again below"

media.tenor.com

Team Cherry@teamcherry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hollow Knight is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with higher frame-rates, higher resolution and additional effects! Free upgrade for all Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox players. Additional updates across all platforms. Read the patch notes: tinyurl.com/236k78mb

Django@djangoproject.com · 6mo ago

Why the French govt digital services chose #Python and #Django: “the boring stack can be upgraded easily and will still work in 20 years” -- Manuel Raynaud showcases LaSuite #FOSDEM. Open source digital collaboration apps, built as an alternative to Microsoft Teams / Office

Presenter at front of lecture hall demonstrating an open source docs interface projected on a large screen while audience members take notes and photos.