RedstoneValley

@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the market, but a few things come to mind… music streaming, movie streaming, smartphones, social media, electric cars, SaaS as a concept, LED lights… They all have one thing in common: They serve a specific need or specific improvement of existing technology. AI on the other hand is marketed as the “improves everything” machine, but what it really does is creating a shallow copy of existing technologies and ideas. In most cases by doing a worse job than the original. It aims to mimick existing things. That in itself is not a killer app. It’s just a faster, cheaper, sloppier way of doing things we are doing already.

  Btw, I’m not talking about Machine Learning applications here, they are a different animal. What most people think of when talking about “AI” is just LLMs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What I meant was useful products that people actually like to use. So far I mostly see chat interfaces, agentic stuff that only works when controlled tightly by a human, and a lot of slop generators. Most of it is using AI because of it being AI. There is no real killer product built on top of AI, it’s all just imitations of existing things. Reinvention of existing things, but worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On top of that, there aren’t many AI based consumer-faced products that have really proven successful yet. It’s not only about necessity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. I’m not actively using it, but it fills up with spam. Training AI on that… excellent idea 😈

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, he’ll come back to developers crying for help when his precious coins get stolen due to sloppy coding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did this Microsoft tactic ever work in their favour? Forcing people to use things they don’t like? Internet Explorer, Edge, Bing Search, AI and so on. I think it’s not a long-term success story. Also, why focus on tool usage instead of actual goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using source command for virtual Python environment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think VS Code is doing its own thing and it might be better if you create your own. It doesn’t have to be called .venv, that is just a VS Code convention.

  python -m venv myenv

  and then

  source myvenv/bin/activate

  should do it.

  Otherwise there is something wrong in your path or a weird python installation.

  python --version should give you a version number 3.4 or above, because these have venv included and need no additional pip installs