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Post by rosstex »

meowface wrote: post #240
kenjackson wrote: post #123

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This. I had this long standing dispute that I just never had the energy to look up what needed to be done to resolve it. I just told it to ChatGPT and it generated everything -- including the emails I needed to send and who to send them to. Two weeks later and it was taken care of. I had sat on it for literally 3 months until then. If I could have something that said, "Here are some things that it looks like you're p…

Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.

OH wow, a word to describe me

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Post by seydor »

Of course i will want to be distracted by my AI but first it has to track everything i say and do. And i wouldn't mind if it talked some smack about my colleagues

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Post by alwillis »

Redster wrote: post #408
exogenousdata wrote: post #373

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GPT-4 got me seriously considering making a product for school-age kids w/ ADHD. It’d be a physical device (like a StarTrek communicator). That listens during your day and keeps track of a) things you say that you’ll do or b) tasks that other people ask you to do. Then it compiles those tasks and attempts to be basically a secretary. It can also plug into your email, texts & school assignments. The privacy implicatio…

We're not too far away from a smaller LLM that could be run locally that could do this, which would make it more privacy friendly. The plugging into my email seems like a great way to begin or complete a lethal trifecta and I don't have a good solution there, though.

Every iPhone, iPad, and Mac that either ships with or is upgraded to iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 has a 3-billion parameter LLM that’s available to developers and operates on-device. Mail, Notes, Reminders are already integrated.[1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286

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Post by lithocarpus »

ht_th wrote: post #423
joemazerino wrote: post #416

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Figuring out which fertilizer, how often to water and sun placement for the plants is a useful AI request.

Is it? It'll take a while for fertilizer and sun placement to take visually effect, and there's risk that short term effects aren't indicative of long term effects. How can you verify the recommendations are sound, valid, safe, complete, etc., without trying them out? And trying out unsound, invalid, unsafe, incomplete, etc., recommendations might result in dead plants in a couple of weeks.

Eh, for something like this the cost of it being wrong might be pretty small, but I'd bet odds are good that its recommendations will be better than whatever I might randomly come up with without doing any research. And I don't have the time to do the research on normal old google where it's really hard to find exactly what I want.

I've found it immensely helpful for giving real world recommendations about things like this, that I know how to find on my own but don't have the time to do all the reading and synthesizing.

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Post by nxpnsv »

pton_xd wrote: post #117

Yesterday was a full one — you powered through a lot and kept yourself moving at a fast pace. Might I recommend starting your day with a smooth and creamy Starbucks(tm) Iced Matcha Latte? I can place the order and have it delivered to your doorstep.

What a nightmare...

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Post by nenenejej »

What problem does this solve. The silence is better.

Reminds me of recommend engines in general. Or ads. Bothering my cognition with stuff I have to ignore.

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Post by serpix »

scragz wrote: post #410
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.

there's some minority that's in the venn diagram of being good at programming, being good at AI, then also being good at using AI for programming (which is mostly project management), and if everything aligns then there are superhuman productivity gains. I'm tackling projects solo I never would have even attempted before but I could see people getting bad results and giving up.

Same here! Started learning self hosted k3s, with terraform and IaC and all the bells and whistles. I would never have had the energy to look up how to even get started. In three hours I have a cluster.

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Post by serpix »

svachalek wrote: post #103
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.

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.

A very good tip: you get one chance to prompt them to a new path failing that clear the context and start again from the current premise.

Use only actionable prompts, negations don't work on ai and they don't work on people.

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Post by bloqs »

Yiin wrote: post #377
snicky wrote: post #270

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How is the current state of affairs different from 8 years ago? I don't want to argue, just a genuine question, because I don't follow much what's happening in the blockchain universum.

I often pay for freelance work using crypto because it's much easier than dealing with banking infra to send payments to dozen of different countries. Sure you lose safety bank provides, but so you do when using cash.

so nothing has changed and blockchain is still a solution looking for a problem
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