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Differences Between Man and Machine

May 8, 2026

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1 min read

Differences Between Man and Machine

How people are not machines and machines can never be people

David Hsing
David Hsing

This Blog

+2

Why I Moved Out Of Substack

May 7, 2026

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1 min read

Why I Moved Out Of Substack

"Nazi is bad" is a gross understatement.

David Hsing
David Hsing

LLMs

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LLM Chatbots spit out more programming mistakes than humans while being faster at making them

Apr 6, 2026

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1 min read

LLM Chatbots spit out more programming mistakes than humans while being faster at making them

A direct answer to all those brain-dead "humans make mistakes too" claims by genAI apologists

David Hsing
David Hsing

Work

+3

Stop With The Bullshit "Because AI" Excuse for Layoffs

Mar 12, 2026

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1 min read

Stop With The Bullshit "Because AI" Excuse for Layoffs

Time to tell all of those lying CEOs to fuck off

David Hsing
David Hsing

Miasma

AI-generated GARBAGE has flooded the net

Dec 22, 2025

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1 min read

AI-generated GARBAGE has flooded the net

All the way to the tippy tops of search results

David Hsing
David Hsing

Miasma

+1

AI Chatbots Are Built For Engagement Mongering

Dec 16, 2025

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1 min read

AI Chatbots Are Built For Engagement Mongering

Just like social networks

David Hsing
David Hsing

LLMs

+2

LLMs: The Biggest Backdoor in the History of Computing

Oct 23, 2025

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1 min read

LLMs: The Biggest Backdoor in the History of Computing

that you can just walk in the front door

David Hsing
David Hsing

LLMs

+3

LLM chatbot concocts bogus Department of Motor Vehicles procedures

Sep 23, 2025

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1 min read

LLM chatbot concocts bogus Department of Motor Vehicles procedures

Better check if the output is BS before you land in legal trouble

David Hsing
David Hsing

Work

Latest METR study shows negative productivity gain for coding from AI tools

Sep 17, 2025

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1 min read

Latest METR study shows negative productivity gain for coding from AI tools

Even when the study participants felt that AI had made them faster

David Hsing
David Hsing

Miasma

Who needs Black Mirror when we have actual news headlines

Aug 31, 2025

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1 min read

Who needs Black Mirror when we have actual news headlines

You know what the endgame is, right?

David Hsing
David Hsing

FAIL

Where's the Elephant in the Waldo Picture?

Aug 15, 2025

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1 min read

Where's the Elephant in the Waldo Picture?

Credit and apologies to Martin Handford

David Hsing
David Hsing

Hype

There's No Such Thing As "Artificial Intelligence."

Jul 31, 2025

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1 min read

There's No Such Thing As "Artificial Intelligence."

The term is a misnomer at best and smokescreen at worst

David Hsing
David Hsing

Miasma

LLMs Are One Big Charade Of Fakery

Jul 29, 2025

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1 min read

LLMs Are One Big Charade Of Fakery

This is why I detest them

David Hsing
David Hsing

Rantasaurus Rex

I'm Calling Troll.

Jun 15, 2025

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1 min read

I'm Calling Troll.

Things have come full circle since my first post.

David Hsing
David Hsing

Work

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Tried to use a GPT bot at work to save myself time

Jun 13, 2025

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1 min read

Tried to use a GPT bot at work to save myself time

Negative time savings

David Hsing
David Hsing

Open Thievery

Yes, you CAN build performant generative AI models without stealing

Jun 10, 2025

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1 min read

Yes, you CAN build performant generative AI models without stealing

"Oh no no no we can't do anything without stealing," said the big fat LIARS...

David Hsing
David Hsing

Hype

Anthropomorphic explanations of AI behaviors are misleading

Jun 8, 2025

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2 min read

Anthropomorphic explanations of AI behaviors are misleading

and they annoy the heck out of me

David Hsing
David Hsing

LLMs

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LLMs don't deal with context AT ALL

Jun 7, 2025

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3 min read

LLMs don't deal with context AT ALL

If you think and act as if they do, you're getting clowned.

David Hsing
David Hsing
Synthetic AI Training Data Works Until It Spectacularly Doesn't

Jun 5, 2025

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1 min read

Synthetic AI Training Data Works Until It Spectacularly Doesn't

Synthetically real so it should synthetically work... right?

David Hsing
David Hsing

Miasma

Generative AI does far more harm than any supposed good to the world

Apr 8, 2025

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1 min read

Generative AI does far more harm than any supposed good to the world

Poison to humanity

David Hsing
David Hsing

Corporate Abuse

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The Silly Con Valley VC playbook

Apr 8, 2025

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1 min read

The Silly Con Valley VC playbook

Rinse and repeat

David Hsing
David Hsing

Analysis

Machines can't think.

Jan 31, 2025

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1 min read

Machines can't think.

An argument

David Hsing
David Hsing

News

About what DeepSeek did today

Jan 27, 2025

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1 min read

About what DeepSeek did today

Two things that were long overdue

David Hsing
David Hsing

Work

+1

AI replacing coders? Not so fast.

Jan 12, 2025

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1 min read

AI replacing coders? Not so fast.

Actually, 70% of it really fast and hard stuck on the last 30.

David Hsing
David Hsing

AGI

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What the hell is AGI even for?

Jan 7, 2025

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1 min read

What the hell is AGI even for?

Allow me to introduce a corollary.

David Hsing
David Hsing

AGI

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OpenAI's precise definition of "AGI"

Dec 26, 2024

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1 min read

OpenAI's precise definition of "AGI"

It's really clear and concise.

David Hsing
David Hsing

Fair Warning

You should NOT drink LLM output straight

Oct 16, 2024

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2 min read

You should NOT drink LLM output straight

That's both limiting as well as concerning

David Hsing
David Hsing

Rantasaurus Rex

We may be kissing goodbye to real progress in computational paradigm for a while

Oct 9, 2024

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1 min read

We may be kissing goodbye to real progress in computational paradigm for a while

Thanks, whomever you are in Sweden.

David Hsing
David Hsing

Analysis

Reading about neuro-symbolic AI has completed my fatalistic outlook regarding hard limitations of machines

Oct 4, 2024

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2 min read

Reading about neuro-symbolic AI has completed my fatalistic outlook regarding hard limitations of machines

A laudable mission with inevitable practical results but haunted with a naive presumption

David Hsing
David Hsing

Analysis

Why Neural Networks is a Bad Technology

Oct 3, 2024

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2 min read

Why Neural Networks is a Bad Technology

Stop pretending that it deals with truth values, and it could be a decent tech.

David Hsing
David Hsing

Fraud

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OpenAI is a Ponzi scam operation

Sep 27, 2024

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2 min read

OpenAI is a Ponzi scam operation

$150 billion of SMOKE

David Hsing
David Hsing

Work

Automation introduces unforeseen complexity and consequences which counteract supposed labor savings

Sep 21, 2024

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2 min read

Automation introduces unforeseen complexity and consequences which counteract supposed labor savings

Not as advertised

David Hsing
David Hsing

Stupid

Another clueless person attempts to defend generative AI "art"

Sep 8, 2024

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2 min read

Another clueless person attempts to defend generative AI "art"

Can we cut this shit out already

David Hsing
David Hsing

Miasma

The educational system is producing scions of machine anthropomorphism

Aug 19, 2024

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2 min read

The educational system is producing scions of machine anthropomorphism

Why don't educators bother correcting a bad concept straight from the classroom?

David Hsing
David Hsing

FAIL

Neural Network Fail Compilation

Jul 21, 2024

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10 min read

Neural Network Fail Compilation

Deep non-learning

David Hsing
David Hsing

Analysis

There's no such thing as "machine learning."

Jul 20, 2024

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1 min read

There's no such thing as "machine learning."

The term doesn't mean what most people think it means

David Hsing
David Hsing

Analysis

The Turing Test Is Irrelevant

Jul 19, 2024

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1 min read

The Turing Test Is Irrelevant

David Hsing
David Hsing

Rantasaurus Rex

For Pete's sake, learn what a machine is.

Jul 16, 2024

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2 min read

For Pete's sake, learn what a machine is.

Public ignorance is making me cry

David Hsing
David Hsing

Analysis

What the world needs isn't "Artificial Intelligence" but Optimized Computational Methodologies

Jun 20, 2024

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5 min read

What the world needs isn't "Artificial Intelligence" but Optimized Computational Methodologies

Keep your eyes on the actual mission or quit

David Hsing
David Hsing

Hype

+1

Age of Doorknob Supremacy

Apr 23, 2024

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1 min read

Age of Doorknob Supremacy

Look out, inferior humans.

David Hsing
David Hsing

FAIL

LLMs and Generative AI don't deal with concepts

Apr 12, 2024

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1 min read

LLMs and Generative AI don't deal with concepts

All you have to do is tell it to draw an ouroboros

David Hsing
David Hsing
My chat session with Inflection's PI

Mar 27, 2024

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9 min read

My chat session with Inflection's PI

Never heard of this bot until Micro$oft snatched away its leader and most of its employees

David Hsing
David Hsing

Open Thievery

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I sent an email to Screen Actors Guild suggesting that they get their lawyers to basically de-commercialize any output from generative AI

Feb 18, 2024

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2 min read

I sent an email to Screen Actors Guild suggesting that they get their lawyers to basically de-commercialize any output from generative AI

Sent the same message to Writers Guild of America and American Federation of Musicians

David Hsing
David Hsing

Fraud

Sam Altman is a CROOK

Feb 12, 2024

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2 min read

Sam Altman is a CROOK

Getting so tilted that I started this blog just because a LinkedIn post alone couldn't contain my outrage

David Hsing
David Hsing

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