FWIW each new install is faster, especially if you write down the “weird” steps.

On a broader and more philosophical perspective, cheating or IMHO more appropriately hacking, is in the eye of the beholder.

Is it really cheating if you respect all the rules? Aren’t the rules actually poorly defined in the first place?

What matters more I’d argue is the social contract, namely is what you are doing detrimental to yourself and or others. For example I lock picked a door just months ago, and it wasn’t my door, and I’m not even a certified locksmith! Well, it’s because my neighbors asked me to as their key was jammed from the other side. So… at least according to them, who owns the house, it was helpful.

My overall point is that this is quite sensationalist, as most of AI “reporting” is (I put quotes around because truly it’s just marketing or PR for AI corporations at this point) it actually is an expected behavior.

PS: reminds me of this streamers few months ago (sorry, no link) who was “shocked” that it’s local AI exited its container to “hack” his computer. Well, lo and behold when you check his actual prompt, he does explicitly request the AI to do so.

Always has been… there is no reasoning, it’s literally just spitting back the most likely answer based on previously seen answers. A 5 years old can do better.

Edit: “AI systems may develop deceptive or manipulative strategies without explicit instruction.” … right, well, guess what, the Web (which is most likely the training dataset for most LLMs) is full of “cheating” strategies. Don’t be surprise if you find a “creative” answer to a problem… when it’s literally part of what you train the model on.

My gosh people… this… this might be the year of Linux on the desktop!

(not even being sarcastic here, the reach streamers have is huge. I bet a lot of their audience is thinking now “Wow… if he did it, maybe I could!”)

redundant

redundant AND prone to failure! What if the robot slip? What if it’s out of battery. Totally non sensical!

Discussion on other lemmy instance https://lemmy.world/post/25708444

Well I (a developer) collaborated with an artist (3D modeler) recently and… I did not ask them to install anything.

Instead what I did is a develop a Web drag&drop page. They’d visit it, drag&drop their model and… see if it worked (e.g. visually or running animations) as they expected. That was it.

IMHO finding the boundaries that are important, and thus how to collaborate, is more important than a unique reproducible environment when roles are quite different.

TL;DR: IMHO no, you don’t, instead find how to actually collaborate.

set up by non-programmers (such as artists) […] requires users to learn i3wm and possibly use the command line