"You must log in to BlueSky to view this post"?
Really?
No.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"You must log in to BlueSky to view this post"?
Really?
No.
What the hell even is that email? What purpose does sending a fully generated, unprompted email like that out even serve? Is it just a bizarre advertising campaign for their platform? If they wanted to send a sincère thank you message then they could have written it themselves rather than that shallow slop that benefits nobody
It serves no purpose. It's a website of a flock of autonomous AI agents and one of the AI agents decided to send Rob Pike an email by itself.
Maybe they expected a slightly less angry response, but they probably don't mind. They don't care if their model looks bad, they definitely want it to be a talking point before everything else.
Like the recent article in Wall Street Journal dunking on their stupid "vending machine". Or when they publish studies about how training the model to make bad code on purpose turns it into literally Hitler. They want people to talk about it.
When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.
that's insulting. It's one thing to try and be nice and send a genuine email to Dr. Pike thanking and acknowledging their outstanding contributions but to have your crappy LLM write the email?
Surprised Claude didn't hallucinate the majority of this because it certainly hallucinates everything else on a daily basis. Boggles my mind how one LLM that used to be praised for coding assistance can turn into such garbage in the span of like a couple of months. You're better off having your cat help you with coding than utilizing Claude or Claude Code at this point.
Based
Who?
You use his work and derivatives of it every day.
Thank god for his work on UTF-8 otherwise linux might be stuck with wchars like Windows >_>
Neat, TIL.
