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I was working on a project for 2 years with about 5 engineers. It was many years before AI. It was new subject for our team, and we were pretty sure it was possible. Turned out it was not. Much later I asked AI if that kind of project is possible, and it immediately explained why it is not. Would have saved 2 years of our time...
I was working on a science experiment (electromagnetics) with my 10-year-old kid that was going to be demonstrated at a science fair in his school. We ran into a hiccup with the experiment that we couldn't debug ourselves. I turned on Gemini live video call to help us root cause the problem. It was able to clearly articulate all the possible issues and eventually was successful in making our apparatus work as expecte…
Neat, but I'd bet it was "guessing" that rather than actually seeing it.
I'm now very good with LLMs as a user and at the system/product level but I understand it's not a simple story of replacing people. They're exponentially better than us at some things, and allow me to create things professionally which I couldn't do with an entire team of experts, but the bullshit compounds fast.
I won’t deny they are useful tools, but the hyperbole from the tech CEOs about them replacing all white collar workers in 12-18 months set the expectation so high that I’m still in the “fancy auto-complete” camp. It still feels nowhere close to replacing anyone, at least where I work. While useful, they haven’t been anywhere close to as useful as promised. Hallucinations and poor guidance are still a regular day-to-d…
The amount of money these companies need seems to be all of nothing, they’re raising like it’s life or death and if you read their books or tweets they’re not shy about it
Claude is great at coding. That's it. Outside of it, it's just god awful at pretty much everything else. ChatGPT OTOH, is good at coding, but at everything else, I find it brilliant. Gemini never made me want to stick with it. It's good, but never great for my use cases.
I bought an Alesis QS8.1 super cheap in perfect condition (was a top grade digital piano/synth in the 90s). and then i realized that ALL of the software (which i collected from defunct websites and archived on github) related to it was ancient and after a while of getting tired of using WINE every single time i decided i wanted a cross platform modern equivalent that did everything that several of these different pro…
There was a more specific moment yesterday where I found an AI pastiche of Pink Floyd in a random post on FB, and it pretty much nailed the vibe of a Gilmour solo.
All of the "This has no soul" criticism was clearly ridiculous.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this.