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Post by Frieren »

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…

> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and critical thinking skills to verify its outputs and steer it toward better answers. My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months.

That sounds like calling stupid and lazy to anyone that is not able to get their "productivity skyrocketed" with LLMs. The reality is that LLMs are mostly a search engine that lies time to time.

No, people is not stupid nor lazy for not gaining any substantial productivity using LLMs. The technology is just not able to do what big tech corporations say it can do.

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Post by throwaway422432 »

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?

Only if you can tick off ALL of the deliverables that verify "done".

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

labrador wrote: post #78

No desktop version. I know I'm old, but do people really do serious work on small mobile phone screens? I love my glorious 43" 4K monitor, I hate small phone screens but I guess that's just me.

Chat based LLMs are not about doing serious work (I might even argue LLMs in general are not suited for serious work). I much much rather have my LLM "assistant" as flawed as it is with me all the time than be tethered to a computer

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Post by smugglerFlynn »

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…

Replies you get tell me it is more akin to Agile movement at this point. People are mixing “lines of code per minute” with tangible results.

Are you more personally ‘productive’ if your agent can crunch out PoCs of your hobby projects at night when you sleep? Is doing more development iterations per month making your business more ‘productive’?

It is like expecting that achieving x10 more sunny side ups cooked per minute will make your restaurant more profitable. In reality amount of code delivered is rarely a bottleneck for value delivered, but for ‘productivity’ everyone has their own subjective definition.

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Post by hallway_monitor »

squigz wrote: post #409
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…

Sure, the implications are horrifying, but tech companies have proven themselves quite trustworthy over the past few decades, so I'm sure it'd be fine. As someone with ADHD, I say: Please don't build this.

It’s not just for people with ADHD. Someone will build this very soon and people will use it a lot. Hopefully Apple builds it because I guess I trust them a little more.

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Post by Eisenstein »

iammrpayments wrote: post #421
boc wrote: post #140

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Blockchain is essentially useless. You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secure, easy-to-access place. We might call it a bank. The end state of crypto is always just a nightmarish dystopia. Wealth isn't created by hoarding digital currency, it's created by prod…

The “$10 wrench attack” isn’t an argument against crypto—it’s an argument against human vulnerability. By that logic, banks don’t work either, since people get kidnapped and forced to drain accounts. The difference is that with crypto, you can design custody systems (multi-sig, social recovery, hardware wallets, decentralized custody) that make such attacks far less effective than just targeting a centralized bank va…

What they are saying is that we have a system that evolved over time to address real world concerns. You are designing defenses to attacks that may or not be useful, but no one has been able to design past criminals and this is evident because if we could there would be no criminality.

> Dismissing crypto as doomed to dystopia ignores why it exists: because our current systems already fail millions every day.

This only makes sense if crypto solves the problems that current systems fail at. This have not been shown to be the case despite many years of attempts.

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Post by Eisenstein »

eru wrote: post #445
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…

There are two main use cases for blockchain assets at the moment: - Gambling (or politely called, speculation or even 'investment') - Ransomware payments, but that's a distant second I guess you say that influencers make money off the first? There's a third group making money off blockchain: the people making markets and running the infrastructure.

You forgot money laundering and paying for illegal things.

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Post by [deleted] »

domatic1 wrote: post #209
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…

>> Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented so useless there is almost $3 Trillion of value on blockchains.

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