Aaaaaannnndddd, this unfortunately is that 1/3 of 1/3 viewpoint I have been talking about in other circles.
The crazy thing about humans is: they can adapt.
But the statement above is giving me a stroke lmao
I use AI at work everyday. If it went away the only thing that would change is I’d just go back to googling stuff
And if googling went away I’d just go back to those giant books with the animals on them.
You’d need to lift the monitors off them first.
Has anyone ever opened one of those books? For all we know, they could just be a bunch of blank pages on the inside
I’ve opened some. It’s genius, it’s like a giant webpage with lots of information, but without all the ads, cookie banners, etc. Unfortunately the ones I have don’t seem to support any way to quickly search in the text. Though they’ve also thought about that, rather than implementing search these books tend to have a big overview at the start with all the separate chapters and sometimes a search index of commonly searched words at the end. Quite genius for what’s effectively just a neat monitor stand
I have read these ancient tomes. The knowledge does exist.
The same, the animal revelations hold forbidden knowledge, but one can derive great power from them
Nah it’s actually just analog AI, someone opened one a few years ago and that’s where all this mess started
I’m required to use it for generating code. But that’s a small part of my job. Occasionally I’ll use it to research niche topics because it’s faster than a search but I’d be just fine without it.
I spent 10+ years coding without AI. It’s just a tool, and one that’s easily misused by people with low aptitude. I see it all the time and have to leave comments and block PRs until people fix the slop it outputs.
sames. That said, if AI went away, we have a few already-deployed systems that would go poof too. They increase throughput of the humans doing real work (we’re not building reverse centaurs here). Since we implemented them, we’ve not needed to hire more.
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Hilarious LMAO
AI is just more social enslavement fuckery
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Also, in some sensitive client projects, companies dont even allow the use of AI so it doesn’t really matter
Which is prohibitively expensive because of the RAM prices. So AI is making it financially unviable to run AI models. Great what a wonderful feedback loop, can’t see that ending badly.
I think he doesn’t understand “anti-ai”
rhetorical question: when you’re anti-*, do you go out and do the thing you’re against? Like if you’re anti-smoking, do you go out and smoke a big fat vape? No, you do not. In other terminology, we call that hypocrisy.
I’d say the majority of people’s reasons against AI isn’t just about the environmental impact but the offloading of your cognitive and mental ability, why would someone be anti-ai and still use ai when it directly hinders the ability to cognitively think in the first place.
Anyways, the reason I’m pointing this out, is if you’re anti-ai, the philosophy assumes you don’t use LLM’s in the first place. So when someone asks this (redundant) question of “can you work without chatgpt?” or “if chatgpt disappeared, would you still be able to get through the day?” I’ve already been doing it.
I can get through my day without using chatGPT. It’s a tool for the briefest of my circumstances (mostly for tedious work), and I could do my day without using it and without hindering my performance.
The funny thing is that meth actually increases productivity in a way where YOU are actually doing the fucking work.
Unlike AI which not only does it for you so you begin to get rusty and lose your ability to be effective, but it gets all the work fucking wrong as well.
Essentially what I’m saying is that meth is a more effective workplace tool than AI. I’m sure a lot of psychopathic, shark tank type business people would agree with me.
I’m not trying to say meth is a good thing. I’m just saying it’s legitimately a more useful tool than fucking AI.
AI is a great help for coding. Not a substitute. But in general, the way ai is applied to everything it’s just annoying. I don’t need it in my search, my shopping, my car or anything like that. A tool is a tool and should be used responsibly. I mean I don’t try to chop my vegetables with a chainsaw, just because the chainsaw looks cooler than my knife and in theory can also chop vegetables as well.
It is a good tool for coding. I could complain about data mining issues with non local stuff like claude… But what really bothers me is how some programmers dont even check its output. For work they get PAID to do. Im not even talking about not checking the code. They dont even check the product to see if it works or not. I have had 2 cases of this on freelance contracts so far.
There is no good use for LLMs and media generation as a whole, because none of the possible uses justify the costs of making these tools.
Expert programs (patern recognition, protein folding, speech generation) on the other hand, go right ahead.
I think those expert programs get labeled as ai anyway. Then the layman thinks they can just ask any llm “how do I cure cancer”
It can be an efficient tool to create a base for further work. If is have to choose between a programmer slaving away for weeks or months to build a solid framework, or an ai doing it in a few hours, I’d pick the ai, since it uses less resources. The programmer is better applied at working out the kinks and specifics.
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.
I’d go back to regular Googling and that’s all I’d miss. I very much want to do my job entirely by hand instead of spending my days trying to get AI to jump through the hoops and then having to fix everything when it can’t.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Honestly I don’t need ai, but time is money,
I can survive ai but a lot of things are time consuming
So yes, I rarely use ai, honestly ai kinda sucks
It’s time to heavily regulate ai
Regulate dez nutz I vote for RPG
Yes. Easily, like I always did.
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.
AI is just a tool and no tool is inherently bad per se.
but this one has been built fully unethically and it’s causing so much harm in the world that said argument can’t really be applied here (most) AI is bad.
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.
AI just info aggregator, nothing more
