Comment by accrual
7 hours ago
I wonder if we'll start to see pelicans like a mascot of sorts. You could have a pelican pin on your backpack.
> "What's up with the pelican?"
Well you see in the early days of LLMs we wanted a fun way to test new models, and there was this blog, ...
Will Smith eating spaghetti is the OG benchmark
Do people really want to be seen making using AI part of their personality?
Like most things, it depends. Think of the web devs of yore with MacBook Pros and Angular and React and Vim stickers stuck aside their glowing Apple logo (no longer a thing unfortunately). IMO having a pelican pin would be more of the same - advertising you are a developer of some kind. An attempt to bridge the gap to a stranger who might be into the same thing. The tech changes, the desire to signal things doesn't. The usual Exceptions(tm) apply of course.
Yeah, but Vim is cool.
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Several people I work with have adopted its mannerisms unironically. Then again we don't exactly hang out outside of work.