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[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Well, that's a first.

An enterpreneur who I met at a cafe a while back and was a nice guy and said we'd follow up perhaps just sent me an AI-genereated pitch.

This wiped out the personal connection I had in my mind with this person.

How do people not realize AI does this?

[chichi @songohab]

@RavenKwok Looks like the image wiggles a bit when moving the window; is it on purpose ?

[chichi @songohab]

@valigo @rfleury Are you reading it in English or translated version ? I wonder if original is the best way to consume this content

[chichi @songohab]

@gumuller @tomwarren FPS means frames per second and is perfectly valid way of measuring the time it took to open this software.

[chichi @songohab]

@OlexGameDev These guys never seriously used gdb

[chichi @songohab]

@TheGingerBill How is it implemented in compiled code ? With goto and labels for each defer ?

[Puhomir @puhomir]

@gdechichi @tsoding what it also needs is a nice win32 name for the return value and parameters so it can sound like someone was drunk not just when giving function a name, but the whole way through:
srilpn afrepl(lpctstr *pOp, rplctstr *pNp, inftp eFlags)

[chichi @songohab]

@yuusakumenka Would you dedicate a separate thread just for that ?

[chichi @songohab]

@valigo Yeah but ... why would Denuvo increase VRAM usage ..? I like your posts but this one is very bad honestly

[chichi @songohab]

@the_geeko1 @ErikHaliewicz @hasen_95dx Is it that more efficient for simple UI tho?

[chichi @songohab]

@rfleury @stewartlynch8 @sssmcgrath Will you expose an api like remedybg does ? This would allow both ways communication

[chichi @songohab]

@desordinateur @vkrajacic I really don't get why this is even a debate .. like... just make the structure?!!

Every now and then we hear about it

[chichi @songohab]

@valigo What is wrong with lparam wparam ? The fact you need to cast them ? (The fact they are typeless?)

[chichi @songohab]

@valigo Why did you want to move off of eMacs ?

[chichi @songohab]

@starfreakclone I couldn't find a link to download fred, is there a release somewhere ?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[chichi @songohab]

@SebAaltonen I still really don't get the point of running everything in the browser ... shouldn't we instead promote the OS to implement efficient sandboxes instead ?

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

This shit is extremely tedious

[chichi @songohab]

@valigo How could you even go for hash table with thousands of key ? This is not a roast, I've always dodged hash tables unless I'm in the hundreds of thousands of entries ... (I'm a noob) and I wondered what made you go with that in the first place

[chichi @songohab]

@TheGingerBill Why would you do this tho?