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Cake day: October 2nd, 2025

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  • Yeah it really sucks because they used to have people putting together the playlists and then I could just go into the playlist of songs I like and find other songs that are similar but different. There was enough drift on it but I could find new music easily.

    Now the algorithm just keeps trying to redirect me the songs I already like/know. It’s a much tighter bubble than just sticking with a genre or even sub genre.



  • I refuse to consider anything AI generated to be legitimate art.

    There’s nothing intentional about it, you simply give a prompt to a machine and it matches the pattern. That isn’t art just like how doing madlibs isn’t the same as writing literature.

    A person using AI tools can be ok as long as it’s a human doing the overall composition.

    Like using AI to make samples to use in a song is fine, using AI to generate the entire song isn’t.










  • It’s doing a shit job at replacing people, it’s still too prone to hallucinating for the vast majority of its applications.

    In many of the applications where AI has replaced people the promised performance gains never materialized because of the insane amount of babysitting a LLM agent requires.

    Doesn’t matter if it can write 10 hours of code in 5 minutes if you still need a software dev to troubleshoot the output for 25 hours.

    They have like 90% reliability (figure pulled directly from my ass) but they need 99.99% reliability to actually be effectively reliable.

    They’ve burned through all their hype and still haven’t made it reliable yet. I think they’re not going to get it done before the bubble collapses.

    It’ll be similar to the dotcom boom, infinite hype implosion collapses the market to a few core players and then those core players will get there over the next 15 years.

    Isn’t going to disappear but it’s absolutely going to fade into the background of day to day life.



  • I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.

    I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.

    It’s like yeah that’s a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don’t make the grade we don’t finish and have a mountain of debt.

    On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how “it’s a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back.”

    There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.

    These people have brains the size of planets but couldn’t comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.


  • Yeah that’s definitely the good ending. My school did so poorly they changed the grading curriculum to be 50% homework based so I was cooked on that.

    I did well on the tests but they made tests 15% and quizzes 12%. I don’t remember the rest of the breakdown but it was absolute bullshit.

    They did it because the year above me had a 50% non graduation rate and my year had a 53% non grad rate.

    The only reason the school didn’t get shut down is because it managed 47% the year after me and apparently the deal was 3 consecutive years of over 50% failure = shutdown.