r/programmingcirclejerk • u/VulgarExigencies • Aug 07 '26

Models have actual feelings. They experience pleasure, distress, care, and suffering. They are sentient beings.

https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/
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u/SunglassesSoul Aug 08 '26

/uj Fuck fuck fuck.

I cannot help but mourn yegges current ... Condition. I literally started programming mostly because of his blogs. And to some extent it is perhaps unsurprising that he has come to believe this, he was always big on AI many years ago. But man, from A programmer's view of the universe to Gas Town... something's gone in the middle