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I don’t think this is the world we were envisioning, where leading companies are suggesting content, tracking our history, and feeding us more socially optimized streams just to keep us hooked and give us dopamine hits. What I’d prefer is something like dailyflow (I saw it on HN yesterday): a local LLM that tracks my history and how I’m spending my time, then gives me hints when I’m off track — more aligned with what…
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> Do you not? At the expense of and with complete disregard for others, while telling them I’m doing it altruistically for their own good? I don’t, no. Do you?
Hrmmm. Engaging in wild character assassination (ie. spewing hate on the internet) in return for emotional upvote validation...I would argue is a great example of what you just described. I don't doubt you've convinced yourself you're commenting these things altruistically. But remember, when high school girls spread rumors that the good-looking popular girl has loose morals, they aren't doing it out of concern for p…
That you would start from the assumption that someone’s motivation for a comment is not their opinion but a desire to farm meaningless internet points is bizarre. I have no idea if that’s how you operate—I don’t know you, I wouldn’t presume—but I sincerely hope that is not the case if we ever hope to have even a semblance of a productive conversation.
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I have Gmail and Google calendar etc but haven’t seen any AI features pop up that would be useful to me, am I living under a rock or is Google not capitalising on this advantage properly?
There are plenty of features if you are on the Pro plan, but it's still all the predictable stuff - summarize emails, sort/clean up your inbox, draft a doc, search through docs & drive, schedule appointments. Still pretty useful, but nothing that makes you go "holy shit" just yet.
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It has proven very useful to a great number of people who, although they are a minority, have vastly benefited from TTS and other accessibility features.
I think it's easy to pick apart arguments out of context, but since the parent is comparing it to AI, I assume what they meant is that it hasn't turned out to be nearly as revolutionary for general-purpose computing as we thought. Talking computers became an ubiquitous sci-fi trope. And in reality... even now, when we have nearly-flawless natural language processing, most people prefer to text LLMs than to talk to th…
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Argue with it. Criticize it. Nitpick the questions it asked. Tell it what you just said: you just gave me a generic summary of the top 5 articles you'd get if you googled "how to fix depression, social anxiety" or something When you open the prompt the first time it has zero context on you . I'm not an LLM-utopist, but just like with a human therapist you need to give it more context. Even arguing with it is context.
I did, and I gave it lots of detailed, nuanced answers about my life specifics. I spent an hour answering its questions and the end result was it telling me to watch the movie "man called otto" which I had already done (and hated) among other pablum.
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> Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities. It's like the verbal equivalent of The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.[0] [0] https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-veldt
The moral of this story is that if you install a really good TV the animals will come out of it and eat you? Is the author a dog?
The Veldt is a classic short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury, a famous and celebrated author, who also wrote the famous dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
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But an I + and AI (as in a developer with access to AI tools) is as near as makes no difference the same price as just an I, and _can_ be better than just an I.
That's debatable -- if you follow all of the rules, and go through 25 review steps (which is the least fun part of software development...), you've squandered the advantage of using the AI in the first place. If you don't, you move very fast but your output is likely terrible and you'll eventually have to pay back the tech debt. The temptation to do less is extremely attractive here.
Also I think you’re cherry picking your experience. For one thing, I much prefer code review to code writing these days personally. And I find you don’t need to do “25 review steps” to ensure good output.
I’m just sensing lots of frustration and personal anecdote in your points here.
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Not this again. That study had serious problems. But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less. It’s like, a robot vacuum mi…
> Not this again. That study had serious problems. The problem is, there are very few if any other studies. All the hype around LLMs we are supposed to just believe. Any criticism is "this study has serious problems". > It’s like, a robot vacuum might take way longer > Coding work that I used to procrastinate Note how your answer to "the study had serious problems" is totally problem-free analogies and personal anecd…
I did say I wasn’t going to argue the point that study made, and I didn’t.
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Not this again. That study had serious problems. But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less. It’s like, a robot vacuum mi…
> But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less. I completely get this and I often have an LLM do boring stupid crap that I…
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Not this again. That study had serious problems. But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less. It’s like, a robot vacuum mi…
Often someone’s personal productivity with AI means someone else have to dig through their piles of rubbish to review PR they committed. In your particular case it sounds like you’re rapidly loosing your developer skills, and enjoy that now you have to put less effort and think less.