Пробудрение, мать твою!

“Пробудрение”, мать твою!

“The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity”, by Alan Cooper.

Read the book first.

Reading news today, I stepped over a word wokeness – the definition of which I decided to check (sometimes I go to thesaurus, sometimes, when I’m lazy – directly to translation). I got a strange word, that didn’t sound right (I’m a native russian speaker, not proficient in literature, but still). And quick googling of it did show I’ve found a rare one!

Jokes aside, AFAICS this is the word we are making right now in the software (I’m proficient in software development): we go for more features and rarely spend time to increase the quality of the feature.

This example with Apple Translator app is showing the use LLM. It comes up with the right translation for words in 99% (my quick guess) cases, but when it does not, it gives you a hallicinated one. Hail to the generation which is coming this way! Those who will use such translators will build “poisoned” vocabularies as they may not spot such rare stupid AI-generated words, which they should throw away.

That’s why that book of Alan Cooper came to my mind and that’s why it’s a PITA for an experienced software dev to use a website or an app which is published but is of substandard quality. There is a special place in Hell for their developers, I truly believe so.

Another example of craze-stupid-life is the description photos for a LED light bulb I was searching in online aggregator a day ago. This is a F! ligth bulb, how one can mess up the description of it? Only through careless automation. Check yourself:

Probably the prompt for the LLM there would be:

... give 5 pictures for the product,
showing the product itself,
energy label, and scheme ...

So the description looks like a description but is (1) useless and (2) confusing:

• What energy rating it has eventually?
• What are the dimensions of the bulb?
• Do energy rating differ in Greece?
• Why two bulbs are there, but differet in tint?

Anyone knows that address in Hell, please share!