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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
About that “net slowdown”. I think it’s true, but only in specific cases. I the user already knows well how to write code, an LLM might be only marginally useful or even useless.

However, there are ways to make it useful, but it requires specific circumstances. For example, you can’t be bothered to write a simple loop, you can use and LLM to do it. Give the boring routine to an LLM, and you can focus on naming the variables in a fitting way or adjusting the finer details to your liking.

Can’t be bothered to look up the exact syntax for a function you use only twice a year? Let and LLM handle that, and tweak the details. Now, you didn’t spend 15 minutes reading stack overflow posts that don’t answer the exact question you had in mind. Instead, you spent 5 minutes on the whole thing, and that includes the tweaking and troubleshooting parts.

If you have zero programming experience, you can use and LLM to write some code for you, but prepare to spend the whole day troubleshooting something that is essentially a black box to you. Alternatively, you could ask a human to write the same thing in 5-15 minutes depending on the method they choose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur is now geoblocking the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I can imagine that all sorts of dark web stuff would naturally gravitates towards I2P. Sounds like the obvious choice. However, the recent age verification BS can speed up the process of normie sites too. If Lemmy admins are required to conform to age verification laws, it only makes sense to host the instance on I2P instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur is now geoblocking the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Just looked it up. Turns out I2P is a pretty interesting technology. This new rabbit hole will take a while to explore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur is now geoblocking the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And so it begins…

The era of global web comes to an end and we enter the age of fragmented local webs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Production engineers and battery scientists do. In their normal work, they only get to see like 0.1% improvements, so anything above 1% is like magic to them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some battery engineering journals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ooh, so that’s CEO speak for: “we’re broke, please give us more money”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As long as it runs, it’s hackable. If it fails to compile, or crashes on start, nobody can hack it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, and the weekly battery articles too. “This new battery will charge in 10 minutes and last 2 weeks.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And these people get paid absurd amounts of money too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
See also: COOL:gen

The whole concept of generating code is basically ancient by now. I heard about this stuff in the 90s, but now I found it that this thing has been around since 1985.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When the CEO of a tech company says that in x months this and that will happen, you know it’s just musk talk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Sadly, it didn’t tell me how much coal was burned and how many starving orphan puppies it had to stomp on to produce the result.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In Copilot terminology, this is a “quick response” instead of the “think deeper” option. The latter actually stops to verify the initial answer before spitting it out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can you share the prompt you used for making this happen? I think I could use it for a bunch of different things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cyberspace, dot com, Web 2.0, cloud computing, SAAS, mobile, big data, blockchain, IoT, VR and so many more. Sure, they can be used for some things, but doing that takes time, effort and money. On top of that, you need to know exactly when to use these things and when to choose something completely different.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s true. The general sentiment of AI will influence investor behavior and the availability of money. If LLMs fail spectacularly, it could make it harder to find investors open to the idea of using AI for various other things too. The past 10 years has seen a massive rise in new AI companies, so they will be able keep on selling tried and tested AI even when investor money dries up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wasn’t talking about delusional LLMs and creepy image generators.

AI as a whole encompasses so much more. Like, image resolution up scaling, cleaning a noisy audio signal, generating new frames to make choppy stop motion animation smoother, finding optimal paths for logistics chains, designing a smart way to pack a pallet full of random boxes just to name a few. All of that stuff is already happening and is here to stay.

Cramming silly LLMs into every application might take a hit though. They could still be a solution to something, but we just haven’t quite figured it out yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can’t close the Pandora’s box. AI is already out there and it’s being used in a variety of places. Some of those things are good, bad, ugly, useless, stupid or even terrifying. Once AI reaches the plateau of productivity, all the useless and stupid applications are gone, but the other ones will stay.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Optical Character Recognition used to be cutting edge AI buzz in the 70s and 80s. Eventually, it got applied to all sorts of places, so OCR kinda lost some of the magic and sparkle. After that, people stopped thinking of it as AI, even though it relies on neural network.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you trust your VPN? How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Its free if you can find a mouse willing to take one for the team.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
After grilling their silly LLM for a while, I was able to squeeze out what that company really is all about. They don’t really make anything. They just buy miscellaneous software companies, and turn those apps into subscriptions based cloud cancer. Enterprise software meets maximum enshittification, yeah baby!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change your profile to Clippy (call to action)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
He also posts on Odysee. Here’s the same video.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Amazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, but Germans can just buy their electricity from French nuclear plants.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
An offline solution exists too, but then you would need to sync a few gigabytes of mp3 files on your phone. Not quite as convenient, but at least it wouldn’t use any mobile data. Actually, it’s still a whole lot nicer than dragging a CD player and a few discs with you. If you’re into retro, you totally can get CDs too…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t like to bring my personal stuff on my work computer, but I can use my phone for all that stuff instead. You could use a BT speaker to blast pirate metal in the office.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I guess some people are, as long as it’s a good balance of convenience and price. Ages ago, Napster, Kazaa and DC++ were considered more convenient than buying music. I guess torrents are used for that these days.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That would be glorious. If the future of your company depends on the LLM keeping track of hundreds of details and drawing the right conclusions, it’s game over during the first day.