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I wonder how long before he gets comfy relying on it and something really shitty slips in.

Yeah, and Torvalds using generative AI to write code is not the same as Bobby LinkedIn telling us he's coding his third app this week.

AI hype train is reliant on the fact that businesses and individuals can’t host the AI themselves

This is, like, one of a dozen major problems with LLM's.

I think this is a much more sensible attitude than the pitchfork wavers declaring mandatory zero-tolerance or you're evil.

Hyperbola definetely.
I believe gentoo is too.

People who are vehemently against any form of blockchain technology will be left behind. That may be difficult to hear, and even more difficult to accept, but that is the cold, hard, truth. Blockchain is a tool, and just like any tool it has uses. It can be used inappropriately, and it's valid to criticize those instances. But if you are plugging your ears and going "Lalala!" when people talk about actual valid use cases, or stubbornly pretending that blockchain has none, **you will be left behind**. You will be like office employees from the 80's and 90's who refused to use a computer and then suddenly found themselves without a job. It's your choice if you use blockchain or not. It's also every company's choice to not hire you because of your unwillingness to adapt. If you haven't learned it yet, this is your warning and your wake-up call: Learn how to use blockchain now, or find a different career. It's not going away, no matter how much you may *removed* and moan. There will soon be two classes of people, those who learned how to use this emerging technology, and those who refused. Things will be much harder for that second group. I don't say this to be snarky or smug. I hate blockchain myself, but I also recognize how fucking stupid I'd have to be to refuse to use it. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's also the truth.

Ah, there we go, I knew your rhetoric sounded familiar!

Seriously though, what "skills" are you building by learning how to use LLMs at your corporate job? How to tell a chatbot to do a task for you?

Sure, if you're trying to build a local LLM server from scratch, tune a minimalist harness with a RAG and custom skills, optimize context compaction and concurrent token throughput, and integrate all that into existing automation pipelines, that takes some technical skill. But that's a tiny fraction of people in the corporate world that need to do anything like that.

I could teach vast majority of corporate workers everything they will ever need to know about using "AI" in a half hour Lunch-N-Learn. There is no skill involved in asking a chatbot to move all your emails about "Project ABC" into a new Outlook folder called, "Project ABC" or asking a chatbot to, "draft a department memo about the new parking policy found in the HR SharePoint site."

It's not the next industrial revolution, it's not the beginning of the Singularity, it's not the dawn of a new age of our species. It is merely the latest hype-cycle of Capitalism that exists to siphon wealth from the population up to a handful of ultra wealthy billionaires and megacorps, and artificially prop up a dying economy just a little longer. And long term, we will discover the same thing about LLM use as we are finding out now about electronics in school and the mass proliferation of smart phones: That it stunts people's critical reasoning, reading comprehension, self-image, and social confidence.

This falls apart the second you look at it when you see that it doesn't take much learning to use that tool for most applications.

At the same time, people overly reliant on that tool take a big hit in developing and strengthening their own skilks and thinking capabilities.

Combine the two things if you still can.

Agreed, although simply using LLMs to do your thinking for you is only going to decrease your value in the workplace and make you more replaceable. The goal needs to be learning how to use AI to expand your thinking, counteract your biases, improve the quality of your work, and accelerate your learning.

agreed

the issue I have with how people use it is that it's easy to just create more shit that they spew out into the world

I've got no issue with people using tools to improve their work. I think it's fair to say that AI is enough like predictive text and spell check when it comes to tools you can use at work. and like any tool, the user is still responsible for the end result

my main problem with AI is that it is absolutely fucking our world (environmentally and economically) to create pure garbage that is thrown in my face every day. like, scale it back a bit everyone...