Like you, I dislike that the providers make it intentionally difficult to retrieve conversation history from their web UIs; you can Copy/Paste easily, or use the OS Share feature to access a public version, but they make it very difficult for me to build tooling to extract the history - it requires website automation, or a browser plugin.
What does annoy you the most with AI today?
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Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#12The enormous waste of resources? The environmental destruction? The damage to education? To the labor market? I mean, it's a long list.
I dislike the “brainwashed” comment from sibling, I believe it makes some assumptions. There aren’t any doubts that:
- AI is extremely resource intensive, consuming electricity, water, silicon, etc at levels possibly never seen before in humanity’s history; whether that’s a waste or not is subjective - Massive datacenters are popping up like anthills, and coupled with R-flavored regulation rollback there is a definite risk for environmental impact - just like during our last industrialization push where we poisoned much of the country, leading to a massive rollout of environmental protections in the 1970s and 1980s - Students are taking advantage of LLMs to shirk school responsibilities. Whether this is damaging or not is subjective until proven, and AI may not be causal here (students may not have been getting the expected value from their education without LLMs, again remains to be proven) - Many companies have used AI as a justification for layoffs, who knows what’s actually true though. There is a very real fear across society that it will continue to impact jobs, and senior AI company leaders are fueling this with public predictions of massive labor shifts. Again, maybe they are lying, but can you blame anyone for worrying?
There are counterarguments to all of these, but dismissing the fear as uneducated or brainwashed reveals your own priors and ignores all of these facts. It’s healthy to ingest OP’s criticisms - especially on a form populated most by Smart People (tm).
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#13The enormous waste of resources? The environmental destruction? The damage to education? To the labor market? I mean, it's a long list.
I dislike the “brainwashed” comment from sibling, I believe it makes some assumptions. There aren’t any doubts that: - AI is extremely resource intensive, consuming electricity, water, silicon, etc at levels possibly never seen before in humanity’s history; whether that’s a waste or not is subjective - Massive datacenters are popping up like anthills, and coupled with R-flavored regulation rollback there is a definit…
I think you’re right. In a very narrow, short term scope. That’s the issue.
The problem with this argument is that assumes the world is static. When trains were invented, they polluted a LOT. Technology evolved. Looking backwards, the amount of value unlocked by them outweighed by order of magnitude the short term pollution they generated. Inefficient in the short term. Generation changing over the longer horizon. Extend the timeframe of your argument. Do you think it holds 20 years from now when we have more efficient algorithms and energy generation technologies? I don’t think so.
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#14The enormous waste of resources? The environmental destruction? The damage to education? To the labor market? I mean, it's a long list.
I dislike the “brainwashed” comment from sibling, I believe it makes some assumptions. There aren’t any doubts that: - AI is extremely resource intensive, consuming electricity, water, silicon, etc at levels possibly never seen before in humanity’s history; whether that’s a waste or not is subjective - Massive datacenters are popping up like anthills, and coupled with R-flavored regulation rollback there is a definit…
Be skeptic of those telling you that technological advances are bad. They usually want something from you. And it’s usually your vote.
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dislike the “brainwashed” comment from sibling, I believe it makes some assumptions. There aren’t any doubts that: - AI is extremely resource intensive, consuming electricity, water, silicon, etc at levels possibly never seen before in humanity’s history; whether that’s a waste or not is subjective - Massive datacenters are popping up like anthills, and coupled with R-flavored regulation rollback there is a definit…
Be skeptic of those telling you that technological advances are bad. They usually want something from you. And it’s usually your vote.
What political office do you believe Finnucane is running for?
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right. It's tricky. Essentially we want probabilistic systems to behave as deterministic ones. Do you see a light at the end of the tunnel?
Nope. But I am sceptic. Best I can see is that there is some somewhat useful cases in addition to more traditional stuff... And even then there will likely be lot of extra work for manual verification. And cost effectiveness is probably also a good question.
I think when oss catches up with opus-like capabilities, we’re talking
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#17I have many more fears than just annoyances :) My biggest annoyance is hiding Thinking tokens; I have little trust in these aliens, and seeing how the sausage was made helped me to be more comfortable with eating it. Anthropic was the biggest provider that did not do this until recently, and they give a good rationale for the switch but that doesn’t make it less annoying. I also dislike the UX they put around it, “Hm…
This is WILD. And the fact everyone just accepts this fact makes it even worse. We’re relying our daily decisions on a closed chain of thought. Do you see this changing anytime soon?
I think in the end it all boils down to a trust issue on the big labs
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#18I have many more fears than just annoyances :) My biggest annoyance is hiding Thinking tokens; I have little trust in these aliens, and seeing how the sausage was made helped me to be more comfortable with eating it. Anthropic was the biggest provider that did not do this until recently, and they give a good rationale for the switch but that doesn’t make it less annoying. I also dislike the UX they put around it, “Hm…
By UX you mean the chat interface? Or the lack of transparency of it? Or both?
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
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Interesting. How do you personally ask that? Do you make this as a systematic approach? Like agents passing they "DNA" to the next?
I do this every day, because Codex writes my requirements and Claude implements them. Just ask it for whatever you think the next model will need, tell it to be verbose if you like, and even have a second ChatGPT check it if you are worried. You can even give it a format, going as far as providing a specification or template if you do it frequently. Stick that template in both ChatGPT and claude projects so one can w…
Holy shit. That’s scarily clever. Do you trigger it at a certain max token spend ratio? And do you think it generalizes to pass all kinds of context or its tailored for structured tasks?
Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?
#20Like you, I dislike that the providers make it intentionally difficult to retrieve conversation history from their web UIs; you can Copy/Paste easily, or use the OS Share feature to access a public version, but they make it very difficult for me to build tooling to extract the history - it requires website automation, or a browser plugin.
Exactly. And I feel it gets even worse each new agent that gets released. Wanna test openclaw? Good luck exporting all of your contexts. What does your ai stack looks like? Are you still heavily using the web uis on your routine?