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In your penultimate sentence, why did you put the period outside the parentheses instead of inside?

To gain 400 pounds of muscle mass.


lol gl.


temper


What if my expectations are tamper-proof, can you still temper them? Thanks, edited ;)


I don't get why people keep saying its style will start to become recognizable. You can have it write things in any number of styles and levels of verbosity.


Yes, and none of the styles are original or yours. This will become transparent and undesirable. There's no threat to humans who can do their own research and come up their own novel analyses and conclusions. Folks who can't do that? Well, it might help them churn out crap.

Like I've said previously but seemingly unheard, it's a tool for chat support agents. It's not a research or learning tool. It's not a writing or composition tool. People who use it that way will be disappointed.


> This will become transparent

No it won't.


Just wanted to say I appreciate your comment and your spreadsheet. Thank you.


Happy to hear it, you're welcome! :)


> For that matter, people call themselves "gay" for "joyous".

Uh... I don't think people do that anymore.


They do, and some will absolutely do (to some it is important to "assess" language) - it really depends on what you mean with "people" (of course I meant a subset).

What happened there is, in the succession of editings I left that 'people' there in a way that happened to be ambiguous. I made a composition error out of inattention.


The subset you're talking about is the union of extremely non-native English speakers and native English speakers over 120 years old.


No. It is not a matter of being «native». It may be your mothertongue of not: it is an approach transversal to all (this class of) languages.

It is the set of those people who intend to speak English, though surely not the language in use among the English. "Currently typical" English does not mean "good" English.

Edit:

On the contrary, «native English speakers» are the one who will follow that: they are the ones supposed to have absorbed more English (and relevant) literature.

I have just checked and I see the terms employed correctly in Joyce, in Wilde, in Chandler, in Hammett, in Paul Johnson, in Niall Ferguson, in Woody Allen, in Spike Milligan.

As absolutely expected: there is the gathering of the Assessors.


Transfer learning, NEXT!


> However, at some level you have to admit that the input to ChatGPT is almost as high level as directives from project managers, and the output is almost low level enough to simply input directly into source control.

This is the part that is going to change the way people work in fundamental ways very quickly. It will turn good software developers into non-shitty project managers, project managers into ?, and mediocre developers into ?.


Project managers into mediocre developers and mediocre developers into jobless.


No. Because I like money.


It's not that I just like money as well, it's that there is usually something I find irredeemable about the tech stack, product, or coworkers that causes me to subconsciously launch myself out of the job. Even when I consciously value potential stability that a lifelong gig would offer.


Yep. I remember starting a job and immediately looking for something else because the tech stack was basically a 10 year old dumpster fire. When I say old, this was basically like using Python 2.x or Java 6 in 2022. I'd log on to production servers and they'd have 1000+ day uptime because literally nothing had been upgraded. (And no, they definitely weren't doing any sort of live patching.) The dev environment was so fragile, you couldn't even run it on a machine with a modern OS. They had to buy used Macs off of Ebay.


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