Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nil@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can’t control it by refusing what is happening right now. Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career. Think about it. Test these new tools, with care, with weeks of work, not in a five minutes test where you can just reinforce your own beliefs. Find a way to multiply yourself, and if it does not work for you, try again every few months.

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nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Piss off.

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- nil@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  very sorry to hear that
  
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Kirk@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career. Think about it.

OK well I’ve thought about it and I still don’t understand. Surely, this thousand word essay can explain what ““AI”” can do right? Surely it’s not the same vague nonspecific claims about “missing out” on the future?

It is simply impossible not to see the reality of what is happening.

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Huh. Guess I’m just really dumb then.

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- blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  From the article, literally one line above the line you quoted:
  
  In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time, in a few hours I did the following four tasks, in hours instead of weeks:
  
  I modified my linenoise library to support UTF-8, and created a framework for line editing testing that uses an emulated terminal that is able to report what is getting displayed in each character cell. Something that I always wanted to do, but it was hard to justify the work needed just to test a side project of mine. But if you can just describe your idea, and it materializes in the code, things are very different.
  
  I fixed transient failures in the Redis test. This is very annoying work, timing related issues, TCP deadlock conditions, and so forth. Claude Code iterated for all the time needed to reproduce it, inspected the state of the processes to understand what was happening, and fixed the bugs.
  
  Yesterday I wanted a pure C library that would be able to do the inference of BERT like embedding models. Claude Code created it in 5 minutes. Same output and same speed (15% slower) than PyTorch. 700 lines of code. A Python tool to convert the GTE-small model.
  
  In the past weeks I operated changes to Redis Streams internals. I had a design document for the work I did. I tried to give it to Claude Code and it reproduced my work in, like, 20 minutes or less (mostly because I’m slow at checking and authorizing to run the commands needed).
  
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  - Kirk@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That doesn’t explain what the LLM actually did to help. It’s like saying “I used ChatGPT to plan my wedding menu” without any details. What did it actually do? Why was it helpful? Those are the things I continue to not understand about these tools.
    
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- nil@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I agree that Microsoft Copilot is worthless as shit.
  
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nil@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I feel a lot of people in this thread are forced to use AI crap that corpos like Microsoft and Mozilla are trying to incorporate into their software.

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PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
AI in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that, fuck it. Absolutely not. I will not support the job stealer. The water guzzler. The environment destroyer.

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- nil@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  So you think AI is good enough to steal work from people?
  
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  - unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Al doesn’t steal jobs. Al operators do.
    
    But your main post is begging people to become AI operators.
    
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- nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “The Internet in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
  
  “Computing in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
  
  “Electricity in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
  
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Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m already having a hard time pushing back against the very real AI hype ocean around me…skepticism is warranted. Reversing this and calling that skepticism “anti-AI hype” like there are giant worldwide marketing campaigns and billionaire financing anti-AI sounds very silly.

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- nil@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I totally agree that putting AI into everything is pretty dumb and capitalistic. Microsoft Copilot is nothing but Cortana but noisier.
  
  But in the area of programming LLMs are actually revolutionising the entire workflow.
  
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
you can absolutely hate ai and everything thats happeneing right now and still work and learn with the shitty tools being forced into our hands

you dont have to stop pointing out how much ai sucks just because you actually continue to use it to survive.

wtf is wrong with these people.

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- 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All these people do not create LLMs or anything. They sell books, ads, blog posts, hype… FOMO as I said, it’s so powerful that idiotic CEOs fell in the trap and forced it on their employees.
  
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The hype goes both ways. Its fine as a further abstraction of search but its energy usage is still concerning although I hope hardware technology will reduce that. Its generative funtion can be useful but is disengenous and so far cannot replace actual talent. It can also be a crutch as one becomes out of practice. That being said with folks that lack talent like myself it can be very helpful when you simply don’t have or can’t afford someone to help you. Its certainly going to improve and not go anywhere. Avoiding it would be like avoiding web searching to find answers in the aughts.

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fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“Hey, it worked for me. What’s YOUR problem?”

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6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have used some AI crap to optimize algorithms, but I would never used that for anything else. I strongly believe that AI is like Google. People were full of FOMO, selling it, writing books about search engines, when in reality, you could learn how to use it in a few hours.

OMG Google is so hard you have to spend months to make a proper query. Fuck no, you have to learn how to write a proper sentence. Same shit for AI. The problem is that AI is shit now. It may be useful in a few years, but not now.

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owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Replace “AI” with “blockchain” and it’s almost copy-paste from a few years ago.

Many people rightfully recognize that LLMs can be a useful tool in certain situations. But just like every other over-hyped tech buzzthing from the last two decades, it’s overblown. And given the side-effects (like the environmental and social impacts) it’s perfectly reasonable people would want to reject it outright.

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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
People who hate AI are the Antifa types. Just ignore them.

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- alecsargent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  One can be right wing and hate AI as well. AI has nothing inherently political.
  
  They run at a profit deficit.
  
  They require huge amounts electric power.
  
  Companies collect data and not respect licenses.
  
  Aggresive scrapers are a problem to many sites and they do not respect robots.txt directive.
  
  Some LLM’s have criminal and pornographic content in their data collected.
  
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- unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I hate both fascists and the tools of fascist empires.
  
  It is troubling that you are encouraging people to ignore those opposed to fascism though.
  
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