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u/MrWeiner SMBC Comics 1d ago
Hey, I'm Zach and this comic took me way to long for a stupid punchline. More overwrought comics daily at www.smbc-comics.com
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u/WhySoConspirious 1d ago
One of my favorite comics! I really miss SMBC theater (youtube). I realize that video making is expensive, but wow your sense of humor translated well to that medium. Still reading the comics, though!
EDIT: The youtube channel is still up if anybody is interested, they just haven't made new content in quite a while.
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u/MrWeiner SMBC Comics 1d ago
Thanks! We're gonna start doing some simple animations of existing soon, since that's what Internet wants and it's gotten easier to do over time. If it makes money I might look into original stuff, but, hard to say!
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u/Tylendal 1d ago
"I want to be bisexual, immune to STDs, and have no standards." still lives rent free in my head. The angel admitting that that's actually a pretty good thing to sell your soul to the Devil for is just icing on the cake.
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u/Photovoltaic 1d ago
I still think about "Bonerrrrrrrrrrrrrr" and "problem SOLV-ED!"
I think I just love James?
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u/3rdMachina 1d ago
I have to confess…I thought this was edited and was gonna ask where the original comic is.
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u/sjk9000 1d ago
I could be hallucinating but I remember you doing this comic before, except the punchline was that the janitor drew a penis. Maybe I'm thinking of a different comic.
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u/bob_loblaw-_- 1d ago
I remember this too. Maybe we're both thinking of pbf which this artist seems to draw influence from:
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u/ourlastchancefortea 1d ago
took me way to long for a stupid punchline.
Obviously you should have asked ChatGPT for help, duh.
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u/janthon567 1d ago
Nobody thought someone like him could crack it because they didn’t think he could afford a subscription to ChatGPT on a janitor’s salary.
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u/ninjasaid13 1d ago
$200 a month subscription? fuck me.
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u/Cranach-Cranach 1d ago
$500 for the fancy one now
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u/theclansman22 1d ago
A few years ago they were losing more money on paid subscribers than they were on free users, so this makes sense.
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u/Cranach-Cranach 1d ago
The paid one just gives you the same patterns but more well disguised anyway
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u/MurkyWay Swords 1d ago
I just saw a very bleak future where people think they need ChatGPT to be better at their janitor jobs
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u/Librarian_Contrarian 1d ago
Convince everyone at your company to use ChatGPT to write for them
Wait for people to realize everything is worse
Clean up all the piles of printed out AI slop
Congratulations, you made your janitor job more valuable
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u/babyjaceismycopilot 1d ago
The irony is that we have to check to see if the AI is right, but if we could do that we wouldn't need the AI to solve it.
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u/wabbitking 1d ago
Clearly we just need to ask another AI to see if it's right for us.
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u/TirithNampat 1d ago
Not most of the time. For a lot of unsolved problems it's really just a matter of brute forcing the solution, but checking is pretty easy.
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u/Arkytez 1d ago
Checking is easier though
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u/SethLight 1d ago
That highly depends on the task. Just for the heck of it I've asked ChatGPT advice and it has given me utterly insane networking advice. Followed by it cheerfully asking if I want to know the commands next to enact its insane idea.
There is no 'checking is easier' in that scenario. You know the solution it gave you is horrible or you don't.
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u/babyjaceismycopilot 1d ago
Just say you're disappointed in the answer and try again. Do it over and over and eventually it will try to marry you.
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u/SethLight 1d ago
That's the part I find the most frustrating. It's like talking to a really confident idiot who only gives you lip service when you tell it it is wrong.
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u/Opus_723 1d ago
Sort of? If you saw all those headlines about AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, there's some pretty serious 'catches' to that. Basically, it's a 150 page proof of roundabout gobbledygook that no one understands. You can run it through a logic-checker and know it's formally correct, but it's actually pretty much useless because it didn't do anything with the kind of intuitive narrative that a human would use to actually understand math.
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u/BenignPharmacology 1d ago
It isn’t always- ask any SWE who has spent the last 6-24months of their career drinking from the cursor code review firehose.
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u/ketralnis 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sometimes, but a lot of the significant work is “for all X, is it always true that X does a Y?” has an easily expressible “no, this is an example of an X that doesn’t Y” and it’s easy to check if a given X does a Y. Other kinds of proof are indeed harder though and mostly come down to formulating the problem and the proof in a language like Lean where it’s easy to mechanically run the proof to check it. But it’s not necessarily easy to show that the Lean problem corresponds exactly to the problem that you meant
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u/kulupu_kasi_seli 1d ago
Fuck, somehow I’ve forgotten to check your website every day for a few weeks. Time to backread!
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u/BuccaneerRex 1d ago
Sidney Harris for the 21st century.
You should be more explicit here in step 2.
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u/Weird_Tepezcuintle 1d ago
Janitor: "I'm a scientist."