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Post by ericfr11 »

jasonsb wrote: post #66
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…

Take a look at new payments protocols for m AI agents

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Post by ycombigators »

tbossanova wrote: post #340
ycombigators wrote: post #318

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Sounds like a company is not adequately defining what the deliverables are. Task: Walk to the shops & buy some milk. Deliverables: 1. Video of walking to the shops (including capturing the newspaper for that day at the local shop) 2. Reciept from local store for milk. 3. Physical bottle of Milk.

Cool, I went to the store and bought a 50ml bottle of probiotic coconut milk. Task done?

Yes.

milk (noun):

1. A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.

2. The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

3. Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.

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Post by ryukoposting »

jasonsb wrote: post #82
jsheard wrote: post #76

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> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.

Objectively. I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago, but the biggest breakthrough has been overcoming procrastination. When AI handles over 50% of the work, there’s a 90% chance I’ll finish the entire task faster than it would normally take me just to get started on something new.

What tasks is it doing 50% of the work on for you?

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Post by mountainriver »

jsheard wrote: post #76
jasonsb wrote: post #66

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> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…

> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.

There have been plenty of studies showing the opposite. Also a sample size of 16 ain’t much

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Post by infinitezest »

jstummbillig wrote: post #60
neom wrote: post #5

Just connect everything folks, we'll proactively read everything, all the time, and you'll be a 10x human, trust us friends, just connect everything...

The biggest companies with actual dense valuable information pay for MS Teams, Google Workspace or Slack to shepherd their information. This naturally works because those companies are not very interested in being known to be not secure or trustworthy (if they were other companies would not pay for their services), which means they are probably a lot better at keeping the average persons' information safe over long p…

The downside is that we're funneling our money and information to a very small number of people. As the imbalance grows, there is less and less reason for the rich people to give a shit about what the not so rich people think or want for their lives. Short term, woo hoo. Long term, not great.

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Post by ryukoposting »

xwowsersx wrote: post #13

Google's edge obvious here is the deep integration it already has with calendar, apps, and chats and what not that lets them surface context-rich updates naturally. OpenAI doesn't have that same ecosystem lock-in yet, so to really compete they'll need to get more into those integrations. I think what it comes down to ultimately is that being "just a model" company isn't going to work. Intelligence itself will go to z…

The very models they pioneered are far better at writing code for web than they are at any other domain, leveling the very playing field they're now finding they must compete on. Ironic.

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Post by noobly »

cheema33 wrote: post #326
svachalek wrote: post #103

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I don't think it's helped me do anything I couldn't do, in fact I've learned it's far easier to do hard things myself than trying to prompt an AI out of the ditches it will dig trying to do it. But I also find it's great for getting painful and annoying tasks out of the way that I really can't motivate to do myself.

> I don't think it's helped me do anything I couldn't do I am seeing a pattern here. It appears that AI isn't for everyone. Not everyone's personality may be a good fit for using AI. Just like not everybody is a good candidate for being a software dev, or police officer etc. I used to think that it is a tool. Like a car is. Everybody would want one. But that appears not be the case. For me, I used AI every day as a t…

It’s weird how divisive it is. For me it’s completely dependent on the quality of the output. Lately, it’s been more of a hinderance.

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Post by evilduck »

ryukoposting wrote: post #383
jasonsb wrote: post #82

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Objectively. I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago, but the biggest breakthrough has been overcoming procrastination. When AI handles over 50% of the work, there’s a 90% chance I’ll finish the entire task faster than it would normally take me just to get started on something new.

What tasks is it doing 50% of the work on for you?

Not who you asked, but I upgraded NextJS in a couple of repos by just telling Claude Code to do it. I've had it swap out and upgrade libraries successfully in one shot too. It will usually create good enough Page Objects for E2Es and scaffold out the test file, which speeds up the development process a bit. Same for upgrading Node versions in some Lambda projects, just tell it to go and come back later. Instruct it to run the test and build steps and it's also like having a mini CI system running too.

Personally, I think it really shines at doing the boring maintenance and tech debt work. None of these are hard or complex tasks but they all take up time and for a buck or two in tokens I can have it doing simple but tedious things while I'm working on something else.

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