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Re: Please Use AI

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Post by nurettin »

ryandrake wrote: post #67
annnoo wrote: post #55

I had this moment when we designed shirts for the marathon we ran as a group. Instead of Brainstorming something funny, we just prompted ChatGPT and chose one of the results. I felt lost immediately. All the creativity, the humanity, the endless hours of putting soul into something. Gone For one hour or so I had some kind of existential crisis. Just because of a funny slogan on a shirt. And sometimes I still feel emp…

Ever since I started experimenting with AI coding, I've totally lost that feeling of accomplishment. For projects I actually developed by typing in the code, it feels like I actually did something--like here's something I built and am responsible for bringing into the world. When I finish an AI-built project, I feel...nothing. Just that empty: "Code now exists where it didn't exist before, but I didn't really do anyt…

Learning some schmuck's framework, IDE, language or OS never felt rewarding to me. It was always like playing with broken toys. Hear me out.

There was always some subtle quirk, a bug that irks me once every so often, something I'd never want to unleash upon masses and although these people made their work available through various channels, paid or unpaid, for some reason I felt more of a grudge than gratitude.

And I tried to fix things I did. It was a breathless, thankless exercise of working through someone else's code line by line for decades while hardly being able to lift my head because of actual work I had to do to support my life. And thus a villain was born.

I am so glad it is over. It is all ingested into neural network weights and high-pressure sprayed to the masses through RNG. I am finally free. I don't have to learn your stupid aws commands, your helm configs, your systemd antics, your http api. I don't have to care about your life times, your gc params. I tell the computer and it clinks and clanks and eventually gets the job done like gene rodenberry intended.

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by Brendinooo »

happytoexplain wrote: post #326
dissahc wrote: post #304

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It's an incredibly smug poem that has the vibe of someone fantasizing about winning an argument against someone who doesn't even exist. The narratives about people not calling their friends for advice, but instead using AI... these are basically unfalsifiable. How could he possibly know that this is a thing that commonly occurs? That's right, he doesn't. >Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal pl…

You're reacting to a very level, honest examination of what we lose with AI by insulting and berating and inventing other scenarios. You're exemplifying both the thing you are accusing the author of, and also the thing that the author is lamenting.

But it's not really an examination of what we lost with AI as all. Nor is it "level" - we can disagree on interpretations but it's very obviously written to be emotionally charged. You even called it a lamentation!

Like the person you replied to said, AI doesn't prevent you from holding your napping daughter. And most people who need a recipe would have used the Internet, and then recipe books in the pre-AI era. Plenty of people who ask Claude about fly fishing probably would have gone to Google or Reddit, or maybe even the library.

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by btilly »

the_af wrote: post #381
btilly wrote: post #379

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> Why are you escalating this? I didn't personally attack you or question your comprehension, I'm challenging some of what you said. On personal attacks, you literally said that it looked to you like I am part of a productivity death cult. How was that not you attacking first? Moving on, What you challenged was not what I said. It was a misunderstanding of what I said. A misunderstanding that is directly contradicted…

You seem very defensive and angry, I have zero interest in discussing anything in that tone.

Wonderful strategy.

Take something that someone else said. Come out swinging at a distortion of what they said. Then if they call you on it, say, "You seem very defensive and angry." Thereby dismissing what they said without having to engage in any self-reflection.

You'll always be right in your own mind.

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by [deleted] »

btilly wrote: post #403
the_af wrote: post #381

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You seem very defensive and angry, I have zero interest in discussing anything in that tone.

Wonderful strategy. Take something that someone else said. Come out swinging at a distortion of what they said. Then if they call you on it, say, "You seem very defensive and angry." Thereby dismissing what they said without having to engage in any self-reflection. You'll always be right in your own mind.

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Re: Please Use AI

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Post by the_af »

btilly wrote: post #403
the_af wrote: post #381

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You seem very defensive and angry, I have zero interest in discussing anything in that tone.

Wonderful strategy. Take something that someone else said. Come out swinging at a distortion of what they said. Then if they call you on it, say, "You seem very defensive and angry." Thereby dismissing what they said without having to engage in any self-reflection. You'll always be right in your own mind.

I'm sorry you feel this is a "strategy". Nothing was intended as personal. Something you said made me react with a reflection on AI and the productivity threadmill, but I wasn't criticizing your personal experience, much like the poem wasn't either.

Your insistence on framing this as someone "swinging" at you is a mistake.

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by holistio »

SlinkyOnStairs wrote: post #268
holistio wrote: post #221

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I'm building something that aims to take on a bunch of the issues Substack has. I'm aware of what you refer to in (2), I see the results of all the "use our agent to write content in your voice, _totally_ human" tools, I'm fed up with everything needing a recurring subscription. But I'm not entirely sure what you refer to in (1). Would you care to elaborate? I'd love to learn more.

> I'm aware of what you refer to in (2), I see the results of all the "use our agent to write content in your voice, _totally_ human" tools, I'm fed up with everything needing a recurring subscription. I'm sorry but I think you're misunderstanding. I do not mean "nazi" euphemistically. Not general right-wing politics, not even such hardcore opposition to immigration that it borders on Nazism. Not even crypto-fascists…

> I do not mean "nazi" euphemistically.

I get it. There was a comma after my "(2)", I meant I see the nazis _and_ the slop.

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by aogaili »

jimbokun wrote: post #263
aogaili wrote: post #249

Passive aggressive piece of garbage, he thinks everyone has those moments and people welcome them in open arms.

If you don't have a relationships like this, developing some is probably the best priority right now.

Again, not everyone has this option, people who think that lives in a bubble. Many people leave alone, isolated, and some despite their best effort lives isolated.

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by codethief »

ElevenLathe wrote: post #179
Brendinooo wrote: post #94

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There's an undercurrent in a lot of writings like this that don't seem to grasp that LLMs enable access to a ton of knowledge that was otherwise out of reach for a ton of people. I'll give an example. I just traveled to Serbia, and I went on a run through a park in New Belgrade, where I saw a monument written in Cyrillic. I snapped a pic of it and uploaded it to Claude; it translated and gave me some context. I thoug…

I was young, but I remember a world before the internet was widespread. I was also an adult for years before I had it in my pocket. In these Before Times, there were often conversations that would meander for minutes about some fact that would be trivially verifiable if we had an internet-connected computer nearby: who was the other lead in that movie? who was the first non-Italian Pope? Is Moldova landlocked? Once w…

> to settle bar bets

As I learned just yesterday, this is exactly how the Guinness World Records books came about. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

Re: Please Use AI

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Post by cpt_sobel »

throw101010 wrote: post #280
cpt_sobel wrote: post #73

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This movie hit harder than my highest expectations from an Adam Sandler movie.

Sandler has some pretty good non-comedy (Uncut Gems, Hustle) or half serious comedy (like Click). He's among the few actors who still could do this and not feel completely out of place... but that's if you give his serious roles a chance, many people just judge the serious movies by his presence in the cast and never actually watch them. He also had a lot of slop movies in career, so I don't blame people who do that.…

I've always felt that his slop movies were just excuses to go film on some exotic island with his buddies, I'd have done the same :)
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