Fuck AI

..wat?

LLMs are completely capable of invoking npm install, the fuck you smoking lol.

Theyre perfectly able to read docs and use existing libraries fine.

Arguably I find better, because when I bump into a bug in a lib, I can fork it, fix the bug, get my patch up, and use the patch in my project in like 15min flat, no longer having to even worry about "ugh is it worth the effort to fix it"

Yes, its so easy now. I just do it.

Furthermore agents can look up documentation in mere seconds and read it (better than Id say a lot of junior devs tend to approach problems ngl)

If the agent is equipped with adequate tools and instructions, its extremely productive under strict guidance.

yep, i was just ranting to my girlfriend about this. It's really depressing that folks are convinced this is going to solve real problems.

i usually write a lot of code because i have to develop novel algorithms or bespoke drivers for proprietary hardware. llms are completely unable to help with that because that's not in the training data.

Now what do you want me to do? Ask an non-deterministic LLM to implement the code from scratch every time I need it in my project?

I have some coworkers who are excited about exactly this and I don't get it at all.

Hey! That's not true!

.........it's also more expensive!

Im far from a proponent for AI, but you can ask it to use libraries

It's funny in a sad way that Google et al let search get really bad, and then try to suggest we use LLMs instead of search. I was happy being able to type in like "react usememo hook" and finding the official docs, stack overflow, and maybe a blog or two. Now it's so much more slop, the temptation to ask the LLM "how do I use usememo" is higher.

Literally today I saw a Youtube video demonstrating an AI that responds to your instructions for game inputs. It maybe worked 50% of the time when prompted, and required a second GPU to run the AI, had a terrible UI (looked like mostly coding data stream I dunno I'm not a programmer) and was slow when it did work. People in the chat: "the future of gaming!".

I was running Game Commander on a 486 (iirc), and Voice Attack a decade ago. We are doomed.

Very little of what we’re told to use AI for makes any sense because there were already trained. People were very good at doing those things doing them already and using AI to do those things not only cost money to implement the AI, cost many people jobs by laying them off, and the end result is usually crap. Then there’s a huge invest investment in money in time in fixing the crap so the end result is finally a usable product.

The reason why AI is being pushed so hard is because of all the money that’s been invested in it and the lie that it’s actually worthwhile. No one wants to admit that it isn’t, at least not the people who invested so much money and time into it.

Eventually, the bubble is going to pop, and our entire economy will probably crash as a result.

To be fair, it doesn't have to be computer code. You could ask it to write a letter to your boss, demanding a raise. Or apply for a new stapler for the office?! Draw an astronaut on a horse as a logo for the new interconnection between the astronomy and horses libraries? 😂