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Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by brookst »

plagiarist wrote: post #230
brookst wrote: post #63

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AI is more likely to destroy capitalism than it is to increase inequality. Ten years ago, what would it have cost you to build a Jira clone / competitor? Today one person can do it in a week, at least for the core tech. In a year, only the very largest companies will pay for that kind of infrastructure tooling. We’ve just started seeing the democratization of software and the capitalists are terrified.

I just don't know how to explain that you won't be destroying capitalism with AI. You have a subscription.

I don’t know how to explain that the difference between barter systems, stored value, and truly communal property has nothing to do with capitalism.

People pay for things in all economic models. It’s bizarre to think that means everything is capitalism.

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Post by olivia-banks »

nmeagent wrote: post #529
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I actually hear about this fairly often. In quite a few of my college classes, there's a large focus on AI (even outside the computer science department). I find it surprising the amount of non-technical people who don't even think to use it, or otherwise haven't interacted with it except when required.

I find it surprising how many non-technical friends and family constantly anthropomorphize LLMs, regularly bringing up instances where they "asked AI" about this or that and it "told them" whatever. I'm tired of trying to explain that they are merely statistical sequence generators, don't have a mind, are occasionally completely out to lunch, and ultimately cannot be trusted. This is usually a losing battle. The shee…

I agree. There's also something to be said in it being another level of abstraction, only linguistic instead of technical, but failing to understand that they are "random" is a recipe for disaster.

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Post by computerdork »

mostertoaster wrote: post #509
computerdork wrote: post #507

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Agree that you need to balance costs with benefits, but nowadays, solar and wind are often the cheapest options (southern states or states with lots of wind). And nuclear is an option that even some staunch environmentalists support these days. Yeah, don't think most people who support battling climate change are extremists. We just believe it's a big problem, and, to put it in monetary terms, having to deal with maj…

Yeah I’m all for doing what makes sense. I probably just overreact and judge too quickly certain statements from my experiences of people who act like I’m destroying the earth because I have more than 3 kids. I appreciate reasonable people though, and I should not assume, everyone is a crazy alarmist because they have any concern, so I apologize.

Thanks, much appreciated:) ...

... and not just giving you lip service, but I do find the far left to have gone too far themselves (am a moderate independent myself). They're assuredness that everything they believe is the only correct way to think is frustrating (they are often the least understanding). Yeah, it seems if you step out of line and say anything against their beliefs, you're apart of the far right.

But, feels like things are shifting back to the middle for various reasons. Think this is a good trend

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Post by Aerroon »

Aerroon wrote: post #66
jimmyjazz14 wrote: post #31

I think the advancements around models and such are still somewhat interesting but its all the hype around peripheral things like OpenClaw, agentic workflows and other hyped up AI-adjacent news that are getting pretty old.

I think the workflows can be really interesting to read about. The other week I read a reddit post how someone got Qwen3.5 35B-A3B to go from 22.2% on the 45 hard problems of swebench-verified to 37.8% (opus 4.6 gets 40%). All they essentially did was tell the LLM to test and verify whether the answer is correct with a prompt like the following: > "You just edited X. Before moving on, verify the change is correct: wr…

I forgot to give a link to the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rkdlqi/qwen353...

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Post by tdeck »

naikrovek wrote: post #504
tdeck wrote: post #492

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> I fear we’ll be stuck in a permanent state of using Tailwind and React and all the LLM-favored libraries as they were frozen in time at the beginning of 2025. Would it be such a bad thing if the "right way" to build a JavaScript frontend didn't change so much every year?

let me take the comment you replied to and follow through a bit. would it be such a bad thing if we moved away from JavaScript entirely? If we commit to AI, that seems exceedingly unlikely to happen. I mean do we really think that JavaScript is the best way to do this? I don't. I've been in IT and software development for 30 years. I thought I would see things progress, but I have not. Same operating systems, same br…

As someone who is interested in computer history and those roads not travelled, I can understand the sentiment. Another way to think of it is that innovation is happening at higher levels of the stack, and I'm not sure whether that's a bad thing. We also haven't tried much beyond UDP and TCP in those decades, other attempts at QoS networking and the like have failed. But UDP and TCP are still working out more or less and the ability to have a standard lets us focus on other things.

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Post by fragmede »

tdeck wrote: post #547
naikrovek wrote: post #504

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let me take the comment you replied to and follow through a bit. would it be such a bad thing if we moved away from JavaScript entirely? If we commit to AI, that seems exceedingly unlikely to happen. I mean do we really think that JavaScript is the best way to do this? I don't. I've been in IT and software development for 30 years. I thought I would see things progress, but I have not. Same operating systems, same br…

As someone who is interested in computer history and those roads not travelled, I can understand the sentiment. Another way to think of it is that innovation is happening at higher levels of the stack, and I'm not sure whether that's a bad thing. We also haven't tried much beyond UDP and TCP in those decades, other attempts at QoS networking and the like have failed. But UDP and TCP are still working out more or less…

There was SCTP and a couple others but in practice anything not TCP or UDP is blocked by middle boxes and also NAT traversal is a problem. QUIC has been successful but that rides on top of UDP. Specialized networks (eg telecom backhauls) still see use of specialized protocols and those are large deployments.

The big thing that's been an ongoing experiment in networking with mixed results is IPv6 which is at a lower level of the stack.

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