Devil Promises Readable Variable Names - Child Writes ASCII Art in Code

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A two-panel meme. Left panel: A red devil/demon holding a crystal ball with the text 'My child will write readable and meaningful names.' Right panel: A dark code editor showing ASCII art made entirely of hash/block characters forming a devil's face, with the keyword 'let' at line 3 and a single line of code at the bottom reading '() = {0} // unit -> unit'. The contrast between the devil's aspiration for clean code and the reality of code where variable names are replaced by incomprehensible symbols and ASCII art illustrates the eternal gap between coding aspirations and reality. The right side demonstrates an extreme case of code obfuscation using identifiers that form an image rather than conveying meaning

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Satan's parenting goals vs reality: 'My child will use descriptive variable names.' The child: *makes the variable declaration spell out a pentagram in the IDE minimap*

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Satan's parenting goals vs reality: 'My child will use descriptive variable names.' The child: *makes the variable declaration spell out a pentagram in the IDE minimap*
Anonymous

All those brilliant minds working on large language models, and the killer app turns out to be a stepmom chatbot that's probably just a fine-tuned GPT-2 with a system prompt that says 'be vaguely supportive but also disappointed'
Anonymous

Great news - after a decade of research and a few billion GPUs, we reinvented the ICQ spam popup, but now it runs on a transformer and has a CAC dashboard
Anonymous

After 15 years of building recommendation algorithms and content moderation systems, Facebook's AI team somehow greenlit 'Russian girl' and 'Step Mom' chatbots. This is what happens when your A/B testing framework optimizes for engagement metrics without a single ethics review or anyone asking 'should we?' in the product roadmap meeting
Anonymous

When your product manager asks 'how can we increase user engagement?' and the ML team responds with 'synthetic companions with 5 million messages,' you know you've crossed from 'move fast and break things' into 'move fast and break society.' This is what happens when your A/B test metrics don't include an 'are we the baddies?' column. The real technical debt here isn't in the codebase - it's the ethical bankruptcy of deploying conversational AI that's optimized for engagement over everything else, complete with message counts that scream 'look how addictive we made this!' At least when we built recommendation algorithms that destroyed democracy, we could claim ignorance. This? This is shipping with full knowledge of the Skinner box you're building
Anonymous

We spent a decade chasing bots; now product shipped them as personas - feature flag ChatNPC=true - with “messages per persona” as the north-star metric; consistency, availability, and dignity: pick two
Anonymous

When growth A/B tests 'AI characters', Legal debates which GDPR category 'Step Mom' maps to while SRE measures the p99 of loneliness and Finance counts token burn
Anonymous

Meta's RAG pipeline: stuffing browser history embeddings into 'Step Mom' for that personalized hallucination
@megapro17 1y

Chat with the worst race girls💀
1. @paranoidPhantom 1y
  
  Bro is legit calling a race “worst” is that even allowed 🌚
  
  @M4lenov 1y
  
  Cyrodiilic argonians when they see a dunmer:
  
  @paranoidPhantom 1y
  
  What does that even mean
  
  @Art3m_1502 1y
  
  It's called freedom of speech🦅🦅🦅
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  freedom of speech simply implies he won't get persecuted by the state — but separate individuals can still have use their freedom of speech and call one an asshole and kick from their community.
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  it's called consequences for your actions
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  🛠️🛠🛠🛠
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  nevertheless, there is no law about having to listen to another's freedom of speech.
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  and regardless, different countries have different amounts of freedom of speech. racism is not a protected type of speech in most countries.
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  🖤❤️💛
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  Its at most discrimination. Go sue them but doubt it gets taken seriously so nothing you can do about it
2. @Algoinde 1y
  
  AI race?
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  NASCAR
  
  @paranoidPhantom 1y
  
  Drag
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  Mario cart on Tokyo streets. everybody hates that. definitely a worst race.
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  drag is actually quite good
3. @gegechin 1y
  
  Bro is a so called "cock hole"
  
  @deadgnom32 1y
  
  or in a cock pit
4. @Vdm_Srz 1y
  
  “Whorest” is more correct
5. Deleted Account 1y
  
  My honest reaction
6. @Edward_James 1y
  
  "Chat with <50iq vodka nig..." Is nigger allowed in here, chat?
  
  @lambda_coolusername 1y
  
  hopefully not
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  no
アレックス 1y

I never got the whole thing about Russian women
アレックス 1y

“They’re so submissive and feminine 🤓” have you ever MET a Russian
アレックス 1y

She’s gonna kill you
アレックス 1y

“Yeah Nadia I don’t want to work today I’m gonna play video games.”
dev_meme 1y

AI intentionally tuned to speak shitty English and include russian words randomly, it's not a scam, it's a subscription now🧠
@patsany_horosh_mne_v_dm_pisat 1y

See? This is why ai is trash
@megapro17 1y

How can I remove a warring?
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  you cannot
  
  @megapro17 1y
  
  can it expire?
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  no
  
  @megapro17 1y
  
  that's not fair
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  womp womp

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