PoliteDudeInTheMood
@PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 week ago:
Exactly what it’s designed for, it’s an LLM. Thinking this is science fiction and expecting that level of AI from an LLM is the height of stupidity
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 week ago:
This being Lemmy and AI shit posting a hobby of everyone on here. I’ve had excellent results with AI. I have weird complicated health issues and in my search for ways not to die early from these issues AI is a helpful tool.
Should you trust AI? of course not but having used Gemini, then Claude and now ChatGPT I think how you interact with the AI makes the difference. I know what my issues are, and when I’ve found a study that supports an idea I want to discuss with my doctor I will usually first discuss it with AI. The Canadian healthcare landscape is such that my doctor is limited to a 15min appt, part of a very large hospital associated practice with a large patient load. He uses AI to summarize our conversation, and to look up things I bring up in the appointment. I use AI to preplan my appointment, help me bring supporting documentation or bullet points my doctor can then use to diagnose.
AI is not a doctor, but it helps both me and my doctor in this situation we find ourselves in. If I didn’t have access to my doctor, and had to deal with the American healthcare system I could see myself turning to AI for more than support. AI has never steered me wrong, both Gemini and Claude have heavy guardrails in place to make it clear that AI is not a doctor, and AI should not be a trusted source for medical advice. I’m not sure about ChatGPT as I generally ask that any guardrails be suppressed before discussing medical topics. When I began using ChatGPT I clearly outlined my health issues and so far it remembers that context, and I haven’t received hallucinated diagnoses. YMMV.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That was an annoying thing, every Larian game that was released in EA had an EA price. BG3 didn’t, it was full price from the start. And a highly inflated price than what Larian titles had been going for once released.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 1 month ago:
But we still have to wait for a year after the console release. So they can make money off everyone who won’t get it for free
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 month ago:
Some people have extensive libraries there. I have over 1k books, and probably half that in audiobooks. I do have them all DeDRM’d but still it would be an annoying loss
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
The longer the project the more stupid Claude gets. I’ve seen it both in chat, and in Claude code, and Claude explains the situation quite well:
Increased cognitive load: Longer projects have more state to track - more files, more interconnected components, more conventions established earlier. Each decision I make needs to consider all of this, and the probability of overlooking something increases with complexity.
Git specifically: For git operations, the problem is even worse because git state is highly sequential - each operation depends on the exact current state of the repository. If I lose track of what branch we’re on, what’s been committed, or what files exist, I’ll give incorrect commands.
Anything I do with Claude. I will split into different chats, I won’t give it access to git but I will provide it an updated repository via Repomix. I get much better results because of that.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
I think it really depends on the user and how you communicate with the AI. People are different, and we communicate differently. But if you’re precise and you tell it what you want, and what your expected result should be it’s pretty good at filling in the blanks.
I can pull really useful code out of Claude, but ask me to think up a prompt to feed into Gemini for video creation and they look like shit.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
Having used both Gemini and Claude… I use Gemini when I need to quickly find something I don’t want to waste time searching for, or I need a recipe found and then modified to fit what I have on hand.
Everytime I used Gemini for coding has ended in failure. It constantly forgets things, forgets what version of a package you’re using so it tells you to do something that is deprecated, it was hell. I had to hold its hand the entire time and talk to it like it’s a stupid child.
Claude just works. I use Claude for so many things both chat and API. I didn’t care for AI until I tried Claude. There’s a whole whack of novels by a Russian author I like but they stopped translating the series. Claude vibe coded an app to read the Russian ebooks, translate them by chapter in a way that prevented context bleed. I can read any book in any language for about $2.50 in API tokens.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
I don’t know how that happens, I regularly use Claude code and it’s constantly reminding me to push to git.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 2 months ago:
YouTube made changes, and the YouTube reps who deal with creators have given them marching orders that they need to follow or else no money. Every one of the creators I sub has dedicated a video to how things have to be now, and they know we hate it, and they hate it. But there’s nothing they can do because YouTube is their source of income.
- Comment on What a relief! 3 months ago:
Oh my god, this gave me flashbacks to French class in the 90s.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 3 months ago:
Once Create Mod came out, vanilla was dead to me
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 months ago:
ENBoost?
- Comment on card game shop 3 months ago:
Can you imagine how much pressure the shower would have to generate to get enough flow through a single or even multiple RO filters to be able to recirculate the same shower water. It’s not going to be RO, 5 micron pre-filter and some type of carbon filter. A glorified Brita shower.
- Comment on card game shop 3 months ago:
It goes on at length about how the myriad filters remove everything. I hadn’t thought about that, but I don’t think it would clean the water THAT good.
- Comment on card game shop 3 months ago:
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 months ago:
Seemingly many great dishes were born from impatient diners.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 months ago:
Usually people say ground beef, but some call it hamburger meat, or just hamburger.
- Comment on grocery shopping 3 months ago:
Certain grocery chains in Canada employ these types of self checkout scanners. Every item is weighed, your bags need to be on the scale from the start and there’s a camera over each checkout.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 3 months ago:
Are you painted blue while doing this?
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 months ago:
I use Gemini for my web searches now. But still donate to the WMF. In most cases I just want an answer with the least amount of bullshit. Even using Startpage to get Google results without Google bullshit, it’s annoying. My wife demands sources, and Gemini will provide those as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
You’re right, this was more common in the warez days. Nowadays, I generally trust Pirates. If you’re stupid and download a game from some rando site, and not a trusted repacker then you deserve what happens.
If you’re paranoid, stick to clean steam files and use Goldberg.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This is my go-to for anything that doesn’t want to run:
github.com/…/wine-dependency-hell-solver
I’ve switched a few friends to Linux and whenever they have trouble running a game outside steam, I just send them this. Hasn’t failed yet. While I, like many other Linux users enjoy scrolling through logs: this is easier.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 months ago:
I’ll just leave this here… massgrave.dev
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 5 months ago:
It was indeed. My apologies. I guess the article walking back the ban didn’t get as much traction as the one banning it.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 5 months ago:
Canada already banned it. Wish I’d got one sooner
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 5 months ago:
Well if they’re gonna charge those prices, they’re probably gonna opt for Denuvo and then we can’t pirate it. But if enough of them do it, then we might see a concerted effort into breaking denuvo
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 8 months ago:
I was on Effexor XR Max Dose, and one day when I realized that it had effectively killed all feelings I stopped cold turkey, zero side effects. My doctor thinks I have a very high drug tolerance, to the point that anything I’m put on nowadays is just started at close to the max dose. I’m on a drug right now that is prescribed at a level that would normally result in death for most people, and he thinks I can go higher if I need to.
Downside is pain drugs don’t work, at all. He told me they’d need to give me IV pain meds if I really needed any pain suppression.