👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

had to cobble this one together across several carefully designed prompts; seems like human oversight and guidance is still very necessary for more complex tasks

oddly enough, in one of the later iterations of trying to get around the truncation, it got the "right answer", but "forgot" that I had asked it to write a script, and reverted to a plain language explanation. indicative of contextual limitations?

it didn't use Terraform for RDS however, but I also didn't ask it to. interesting that it didn't assume I wanted that; this is similar to how a junior may behave.

this one took some iteration as it kept getting truncated, but eventually it gave me something good

alright so now lets stop managing our own database, that gets old quick.

p good so far, but the response kept getting cut off repeatedly, each time i reran. i asked it why and it was able to acknowledge this, theorize as to why, and even continue from where it had left off!

lets see if it can fix that...

it didn't, claimed it did, and even explained what additional steps need to happen, violating my instructions. interesting, but oh well

alright now lets take it up a notch...

this is more or less right, besides that it misunderstood how to use AWS credentials; very very close tho. already past what most of my juniors at work could have done with this level of specificity

it can iterate in response to me invalidating its assumptions about my context! pretty cool

that script will probably work tbh, but we have nowhere to run it. lets see if we can fix that...

this is pretty good, albeit a bit too simple

its not quite right as the actual reason is due to a weird rendering issue, but its suggestion for fixing it is fascinating! is it aware that its output is on a webpage, and those can be interacted with?

v proactive to rewrite the script w/o being asked, too
script looks p good!

ok now lets reformat this to make it easier to test out...

woah what happened there?

wow ok thats p good, but it missed a spot

maintains context and is able to adjust and iterate!

lets install wordpress!

interestingly enough, if I upload the same document to pastebin with a 10 min expiry, it seems to use a version of that page from its training data! or is it cached on the machine somehow?

tried again with a document i'm working on that it couldn't have been trained on as I just uploaded it; seems like it has to insist its unable to access the internet, but can still do so!

did it actually fetch the page, or did it just remember it?

the labels by which you apprehend others reveal the contours of your frame

this is why Europe colonized the global south and not vice versa

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RT @pee_zombie
this has very direct implications for why europe was the cradle of technological civilization

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1403358854411390980
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1410389625877712896

air conditioning is the great equalizer bc technological progress is made when the brain has somewhere to dump its waste heat
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RT @whyvert
It tends to go along with accusations of "technological determinism" and "biological determinism".
I disagree. The influence of geography upon people and history is worthy of very serious consideration.
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1607078806061477888