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Post by sally_glance »

lelanthran wrote: post #476
serpix wrote: post #438

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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.

Doesn't sound like you learned it, sounds like it did it for you, using you as the tool. IOW, can you redo it by yourself? If you can't then you did not learn it.

Is that really a fair comparison? I think the amount of people who can memorize each and every configuration item is vanishingly small... even when I was bootstrapping k8s clusters before the dawn of LLMs I had to lookup current documentation and maybe some up to date tutorials.

Knowing the abstract steps and tripwires yes, but details will always have to be looked up. If just not to miss any new developments.

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Post by latexr »

ensocode wrote: post #498

In the beginning, I was really curious about ChatGPT—a tool that could save me from useless blogs, pushy products, and research roadblocks. Then it started asking follow-up questions, and I got a bit uneasy… where is this trying to take me? Now it feels like the goal is to pull me into a discussion, ultimately consulting me on what? Buy something? Think something? It’s sad to see something so promising turn into an a…

Don’t forget that Sam Altman is also the cryptocurrency scammer who wants your biometric information. The goal was and will always be personal wealth and power, not helping others.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

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Post by kilpikaarna »

henry2023 wrote: post #350
qoez wrote: post #132

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And if you don't we're implicitly gonna suggest you'll be outcompeted by people who do connect everything

Data driven living is 10x Non data driven living is 1x Therefore data driven beings will outcompete Same reasoning shows that 3.10 is better than 3.1

E = mc^2 + AI

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Post by _9ptr »

ycombigators wrote: post #382
tbossanova wrote: post #340

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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.

In germany soymilk and the like can't be sold as milk. But coconut milk is okay. (I don't know if that's a german thing or a EU-thing.)

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Post by latexr »

nenenejej wrote: post #437

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.

> What problem does this solve.

People not getting sufficiently addicted and dependent on ChatGPT, and then not having enough means to monetise and control you opinion and consumption.

Oh, you meant what problem does this solve for the user? They don’t really care about that, they’ll always do just enough to get you to continue using and defending their product.

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Post by borski »

lethologica wrote: post #370
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…

I have ADHD and it almost acts as a body double for me, which I find to be incredibly helpful to get things done.

This is the first actual use case I’ve heard of that made sense for me. I’m going to try this.

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Post by matwood »

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.

> How can you verify the recommendations are sound, valid, safe, complete, etc., without trying them out?

Such an odd complaint about LLMs. Did people just blindly trust Google searches before hand?

If it's something important, you verify it the same way you did anything else. Check the sources and use more than a single query. I have found the various LLMs to very useful in these cases, especially when I'm coming at something brand new and have no idea what to even search for.

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Post by tim333 »

taf2 wrote: post #268

This has been surprisingly helpful for me. I've been using this for a little while and enjoyed the morning updates. It has actually for many days for me been a better hacker news, in that I was able to get insights into technical topics i've been focused on ranging from salesforce, npm, elasticsearch and ruby... it's even helped me remember to fix a few bugs.

Cool. I think you are almost the only positive comment on the thread.

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Post by matwood »

atonse wrote: post #413
majormajor wrote: post #398

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How do you deal with security for web stuff? I wouldn't host anything vibe-coded publicly because I'm not enough of an expert in web/frontend to even double-check that it's not generating some giant holes.

The same way you do security for manually written code. Rigorously. But in this case, you can also have AI also do your code reviews and suggest/write unit tests. Or write out a spec and refine it. Or point it to OWASP and say, look at this codebase and make a plan to check for these OWASP top 10. And have another AI review your unit tests and code. It's pretty amazing how much nuance they pick up. And just rinse and…

Yeah, some of these comments make it sound we had zero security issues pre-AI. I think the challenge is what you touched on, you have to tell the AI to handle it just like anything else you want as a requirement. I've use AI to 'vibe' code things and they have turned out pretty well. But, I absolutely leaned on my 20+ years of experience to 'work' with the AI to get what I wanted.

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Post by jwr »

I don't understand how anyone would entrust OpenAI with private data about their entire life. Do people not care about privacy at all? Is everybody OK with being advertising/targeting meat?

This sort of thing might arguably be useful, but only with local data processing.

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