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Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet, by Gwern, Gemini-2.5-pro, GPT-4-o3 · Gwern.net

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Maple Creek, Il.—Local area man Dale Pinter, stuck in traffic by the half-built Splash’n’Shine car wash Wednesday, reportedly revolutionized the future of global construction when, according to witnesses in next car, he frowned at the deserted grid of rebar and muttered, “This is a crime against uptime! They’ve got a million-dollar rig just sitting there. With a few lines of Python and a reinforcement-learning module, that backhoe could’ve been pouring concrete at 2AM last night, and that hole would’ve been dug, framed, and pressure-tested by dawn. Instead, they’re burning daylight—and ROI.”

--- title: 'Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet' author: Gwern, Gemini-2.5-pro, GPT-4-o3 description: " Onion -style fiction satire of complaints about automation or scaling not proceeding fast enough for some individual with unstated comparisons or timelines. (Partially an LLM style-imitation writing exercise.)" created: 2025-04-19 modified: 2025-04-19 status: in progress importance: N/A confidence: log css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs reader-mode backlink: False ... ::: text-center **Local Area Man Outraged Construction Site Not Yet Run by Immortal Robot Overlords** ::: [Maple Creek, Il.---Loca

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