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  • Every single word in the original post clarifies more than plain English. It is more specific and has better nuance than a plain translation.

    That doesn’t make it a useful explanation because the audience of the statement is not the in-group using the jargon.

    One part of my daily job is translating “technical” into “manager”. The translation always loses fidelity to the original. Jargon exists because it’s useful, not because there’s a deliberate attempt to keep others out. Some will then use it as a shibboleth but that does not mean it’s original purpose was such.

    For what it’s worth: that’s true of all translations. I’ve done real time translation from Italian into English and it’s always missing the nuance of the original. I’ve read the divine comedy in English and Italian and the English is always missing the context and nuance.

    Language is an abstract representation of concepts and never maps faithfully.









  • Oh I’m 1000% in agreement with you. I think Copilot for programming is more expensive than it’s worth right now, both for my employer and for Microsoft.

    OpenAI et al have done nothing to address the fundamental issue of hallucinations. In code hallucinations are pretty quickly evident: your IDE immediately throws up error highlights whenever the code complete fucks up.

    The latest open AI model is to chain together a computational centipede to try and create reasoning structures out of stochastic processes. It takes longer and still doesn’t fix the issues. In their own demo video there are clear bugs with the “code” their 4o model writes.




  • The plagiarism engine effect is exactly what you need for a good programming tool. Most problems you’re ever going to encounter are solved and GenAI becomes a very complex code autocomplete.

    An LLM constructed only out of open source data could do an excellent job as a tool in this capacity. No theft required.

    For writing prose it’s absolutely trash, and everyone using it for that purpose should feel ashamed.