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Re: We might all be AI engineers now

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Hey!! I grew up off the grid without a toilet or a tv. Now I'm researching (not to mention reopening) a series of historic CSC crimes that had been long buried. I lack financial or social resources and AI has given me the tools I need to research quickly and then read case law and examine sources.

Re: We might all be AI engineers now

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>It's incredibly frustrating arguing these same points, over and over, quite frankly there seems to be something incredibly frustrating in your life going on, but I'm not sure that the underlying cause of whatever is weighing on your mind at the moment is that I asked "how do you know that what you are feeling is actually true, in comparison to what studies show should be true?" (rephrased, as not reasonable to quote…

To lay it out, Im pretty firmly pro-AI. Putting it succinctly, these kind of conversations feel weird because it's like asking whether carpenters are faster using power tools or hand tools. If you've used power tools it's obvious they make work a lot faster. Maybe there were some studies around the time power tools were introduced looking at the productivity of carpenters, if those studies had results saying the prod…

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Re: We might all be AI engineers now

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> Building systems that supervise AI agents, training models, wiring up pipelines where the AI does the heavy lifting and I do the thinking. Honestly? I’m having more fun than ever. I'm sure some people are having fun that way. But I'm also sure some people don't like to play with systems that produce fuzzy outputs and break in unexpected moments, even though overall they are a net win. It's almost as if you're deali…

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