this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I stole this fair and square. Hope this hasn't been posted yet.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I hate the "Random industry is cooked" trope. Right now if you go on LinkedIn you'll find a ton of bros proclaiming the death of Hollywood because Seedance can now generate 3 minutes of incoherent eye-candy with vaguely realistic looking special effects.

It's like brainrot for boomers, you can see they are getting absolutely hypnotized by the loud noises and bright colors, and totally missing that the main character who was running to the right with blue pants is now walking to the left with red shorts.

[–] sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub 7 points 3 hours ago

Really, it reminds me of nothing so much as NFTs. Cryptocurrency in general, sure, but especially NFTs. Banks are cooked! Traditional mortgages are cooked! The stock market is cooked! Fiat currency is cooked! We're going to tokenize everything and transform the world! Give us all your money so you can get in on the ground floor before it's too late!

It was empty hype, and it was obviously empty hype, and it went the same place all empty hype goes.

But it let some very rich people launder a lot of money and get even richer, and isn't that the end goal of the whole economy anyway?

[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

AI bros made Cocomelon for AI bros. Insane.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 points 4 hours ago

What a time to be alive, right?

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 22 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Not to even mention "blew $500 on Claude credits and spent a whole day on doing something that a professional could have done correctly in 10 minutes for $50"

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Sounds like me and DIY plumbing.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I bought a Mac Mini 4 when they came out. I installed Ollama on it and have downloaded many large language models for learning about AI. What I have learned is that... LLMs are not very good.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They've been pretty handy for coding for me. I bought this obscure 20m LIDAR on aliexpress for $20:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008535798154.html

All the libraries that exist for it on github don't work for me. But what did work was throwing the entire datasheet PDF into an LLM and asking for a library.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

What are you using the LIDAR for?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 57 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Has automated a 30s task in only 4 days of work

I’m catching strays here

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 26 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The chart doesn’t factor in the fun of solving something as completely as you are able, or the increased productivity in exploring and innovating through personal puzzling. Through expanded scope, I’ve wasted merely hundreds of hours, not thousands.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

In capitalism, any work you enjoy counts as vacation. Get back to work.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Damn, I opened this thread to post that.