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In my experience, LLMs have been very good at writing unit code. Definitely don’t miss Stackoverflow. Besides this (and framing silly stuff), they aren’t there yet. They will be at some point in the future with some interesting architectural progress, but I haven’t personally experienced this future yet.
These are things I already never use. Oh the horror
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Work in cybersecurity. Don’t use AI. Thanks to AI all the search engines are fucked.
Please let it die.
Jokes on you, I use AI as a search engine to wade through all the other AI generated slop. It works some of the time, unlike google which is only ads.
I use a self-hosted combo of Hister (search engine with local index, you can get a browser extension to add pages you visit to the index so it basically searches your own browser history, it also bas a web crawler for building up your local index) and SearXNG (meta-search engine, it basically searches multiple normal search engines in the background, and you can route those searches through tor or a rotating list of proxies for increased privacy)
Setting up SearXNG is on my to-do list
Highly recommend it. Only took like 5 minutes to set up, just install it, enable the systemd service (or equivalent, I’ve only run it on arch, but I assume there’s at least an openrc service as well), and then set which engines you want it to pull from in the config (and optionally configure search proxies)
What hardware do you use?
edit: wrong user
If I fart in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, will you ever recover from that?
I dig trenches with a shovel. There is no USB port on my shovel. I thank the almighty gods for that small blessing.
But it’s the universal shoveling bus
I’ve never understood the appeal of the “smartified” appliances. My TV is more annoying than it used to be because it has smart features, it was actually more useful when it was dumb and simply played broadcast television or whatever was fed to it varian HDMI port, I don’t need smart light switches asI can turn my own lights on it’s not that difficult, I don’t need a smart fridge either, not unless it’s going to stock itself.
I can’t think of a single piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis that would benefit from having internet connectivity added to it. I guess it would be nice if my wall clock updated when the hours changed due to daylight savings, but nothing other than that.
I’d just go back to doing my job the old way and know there are excel formulas out there AI taught me
If it were banned, would it matter if you “willing” to give it up? Dumbass question.
And yes, I could do my job easily.
Yep. I could run one locally, it just wouldn’t be as good and I don’t see much benefit even with today’s models.
My computer belongs to me.
Real talk. AI isn’t the problem. AI is nothing but a tool. It’s corporate greed that is the problem.
I use AI. It’s a fantastic tool. My QA time is slashed in 1/2. Reports that I have to do weekly is done so quickly, it might as well be instant. What used to take my 6 hours. Instant. . Everything is more efficient.
But it doesn’t replace humans. It just shifts the tasks. Instead of building reports and power points, I’m spending more time training my junior devs. It frees up my time to do other tasks is more important.
Not sure the nature of the QA you perform but as somebody who was forced to use AI QA for a bit in a ticketing system for support purposes, my 2 cents is: don’t.
I did the exercise for 2 months where I double checked all the stuff it spewed as summaries of actions, recommendations, wrap up info and applied codes vs stuff that was actually happening in the tickets, it was consistently inconsistent and while on the surface as a quick check it looks fine, the moment any scrutiny is applied it falls apart.
That’s millennial as fuck!
I’m not anti-AI, but I’m most definitely anti-corporate greed. I wish there was moderation in all of this. I wish there were regulations instead of letting companies blindly buy hardware before it’s even made based on what they or their competitors might be doing 2 years from now. Fuck that.
With that said, yes, AI is a helpful tool, yes, I’m using it every day at work, and yes, I can do without it no problem - just like I have for many many years.
AI has been in development for a long time, I remember learning about neural networks when I was at school in the 90s, they weren’t very sophisticated by all accounts but the research was there. What’s happened lately is that scientists have been replaced by tech bros and all the research is now happening out in public, Andy’s on sale, rather than in the labs where it can be regulated by people who are not purely profit motivated.
The internet didn’t vanish when the dot com bubble burst, all that happened was that businesses were more accurately assessed as to their market value. If anything, the internet was improved by the dot com bubble burst, does increase the number of actually practical ideas.
I suspect AI will be better once the AI bubble bursts, and the research goes back into labs and starts being done by ethical scientists again.
This is a very level headed take, thank you. Ai is so bad right now because of hype and overvaluation, not because the technology is inherently bad or good.
I like to think about the fact that most AI companies lose huge sums of money, and that it can’t really be maintained. It’ll naturally become an expensive tool after the “hype” dies down. It’ll no longer be worth it to put it in everything, to message random shit to it etc.
Fair point, but the damage is done, the hardware market will take years to recover (if it ever does), not to mention the negative effect on the environment.
Some pleeb trying to get comments and foot traffic to his post on what ever stoopid platform… ignoring ai bs is the best way to remove from our environment
What’s scary is that AI as a service is really expensive, and the AI companies have been selling tokens as a severe loss all this time.
If you’re that dependent on AI, what happens when you have to bear the full price?
You’re going to give up your AI girlfriend, is what.
This is really what has put me off AI, yes there are the ethical and environmental considerations and they worry me too but ultimately it’s the price, and the knowledge that the price inevitably will increase.
I don’t want to build all my workflows on a system that not only do I not really control I don’t even have a fixed price for. That just seems like a really bad design.
I also dislike using Microsoft 365 for the exact same reason. I do not want to rest my business model on someone else’s business model.
It’s a good accelerator for mundane tasks, and usually a good indicator that you could farm those tasks out to an intern.
You should give AI the same responsibility and trust that you give to a green intern because it will confidently fuck things up and requires an experienced eye to review anything it produces.
If AI went away tomorrow, we could probably take the cost and redistribute it to a graduate or two.
Aaaaaannnndddd, this unfortunately is that 1/3 of 1/3 viewpoint I have been talking about in other circles.
Wow!
