“Dilbert” Is Obsolete

I’ve been rereading old collections of “Dilbert” cartoons, and then
this article
<https://www.infoworld.com/article/4211958/anthropics-opus-language-problems-may-be-creating-a-hidden-cost-for-ai-coding.html>
popped up on my feed. Seems there may be issues with recent versions
of Anthropic’s Opus AI which cause it to, um, pad out its responses a
bit.

The overlap between truth and fiction/satire is getting downright
uncanny. From the first GitHub bug report cited:

      * repeatedly propagates the terms "Load bearing", "prose"
        (instead of text), "Hand-waving" (for being lazy/not putting
        in effort), "Reflexive hedging", "Honest framing" , and lots
        of other highly unusual terms it propagates as fact.
      * Leads every sentence with what something isn't, instead of
        what it is. E.g, "It is not Y. It is X."
      * Made-up jargon / aphorisms presented as if standard:
        "instrumentation is the unlock", "this is where a VP smells
        hand-waving", "say the wrong expansion to a growth VP and it
        dents you".
      * Forced metaphors invented on the spot that require decoding
        rather than aiding comprehension.

    ...

    Real examples users quoted:

    ▎ "They're tightening, term-locking, and having the counter-probe
    ▎ answer loaded."
    ▎ "None of these are 'you don't get it' gaps."
    ▎ Fable 5: "The dice: clean — and one die never gets rolled
    ▎ anymore."

Heck, let’s face it: Scott Adams never came up with anything so far
outside the realms of normal human comprehensibility; it could very
well be that no normal human mind could go where the AI goes -- and
remain sane, anyway.

Looks like truth is leaving fiction in the dust, yet again ...