Comrade Ferret

2025-07-31 18:15:33

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

Latest on Ferret Having A Lapse In Judgment And Stooping To Using Chatbots: I asked Deepseek to write me a "short cover letter", providing it with my resume and the job I'm applying for. It didn't even get the fucking job title right. I spent more time editing the cover letter to make it accurate and make it not look like obvious #AI garbage churned out by someone who didn't even read the job description than I would have to just write the thing myself.

I'm just so tired of writing cover letters...

2025-07-31 18:19:59

Comrade Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Comrade Ferret I also stooped to asking it a couple times just for ideas when I was fussing with federation on Hubzilla. On multiple occasions, doing what it told me to do would have almost-irreversibly broken my instance. It would hallucinate files that don't exist (and I don't understand why; does it not have access to the github?), invent config values out of thin air, and it even told me at one point to add a whole config file to Apache that literally made no sense at all. The best was when it told me to modify SQL entries — also, perhaps fortunately, in a table that didn't exist.