Something creepy happened today while making some code-slop for work. I just finished writing a function to do some silly UI thing. I started to put a comment above the function starting with "// I argued". Co-pilot autocompleted it to "// I argued against this but Cody insisted". This brings up a couple of things. First, how did Co-pilot know my name? I searched the codebase and it doesn't appear anywhere except in git commit messages. Second, why are Co-pilot and I arguing? Sure I ignore more than half of the suggestions it makes, because they were terrible, but I didn't think that it would matter. Third, This may have been a lucky stochastic response on it's part but it really made me feel like it had become aware.
_ Cody Smith _ [email protected] On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > If he is really creating this resentment, he won't be paid for long. > Someone will have to pay for that GPU time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 3:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] workslop > > Well, sure. But the same can be said about guns. Give the mass shooter a > 6-shooter revolver and he'll kill a few kids. But give 'em an AR-15 and > he'll kill a LOT of kids. Give a moron a copy of WordStar and a line > printer and he can try to flood the zone. But he'll fail. Give him access > to billion dollar data centers running billion parameter AIs and he won't > fail. > > On 9/23/25 2:01 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Let's face it: A lot of work is dumb and misguided and might as well be > slop. > > Not all the same workers at these organizations know when work matters > and when it doesn't, or how to tell the difference. > > The misery is organizational and has nothing to do with AI. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen > > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 1:23 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FRIAM] workslop > > > > AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable > https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/ > > > > "Each study I referenced above has several anecdotes about individual > workers who have found specific uses of AI that improve their own > productivity and several companies have found uses of AI that have helped > automate specific tasks, but most of the studies find that the industry- > and economy-wide productivity gains that have been promised by AI companies > are not happening." > > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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