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| ▲ | ihumanable 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| For the last 15 years you could take a picture of a lightbulb and pop it in google search and it would tell you what kind it was. I know because I bought a house in 2013 where the builder delighted in using a dozen weird fixtures and the cheapest bulbs they could find and I spent a lot of 2015 doing just that. There are lots of things that LLMs are genuinely good at, searching by image isn't something we need LLMs for. I asked Google's LLM when google image search launched and it reported > Google officially launched its "Search by Image" feature—allowing users to upload a picture or image URL to find related content—in 2011 |
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| ▲ | dingaling 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > It's reduced technical debt I think that's a misunderstanding of the phrase. AI may have reduced your immediate technical burden. However AI, if not carefully used, increases technical debt because it builds up a vast heap of code and business logic that nobody understands. The agent that created it forgets about it once it's out of its context window, the programmer that scripted it just knows it passed some tests. In two, five, ten years from now trying to maintain that vibe-coded slop will be a battle between various agents making conflicting changes and some poor human trying to get it into a shippable state. |
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| ▲ | abirch 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You are completely right that AI can be misused/abused. If done right it can fix things like code bases that were created by multiple people and groups each with their own conventions. Before I had to know which group did what to know the variables. Claude fixed that. There used to be pushback to have 100% test coverage. If you don't have that, then you can't merge. AI can write the tests but a programmer must own them. |
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| ▲ | mekoka an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I imagine how you intended your comment to come across and I get it to some level. But I can't help to feel that there's something a bit dystopian in a world where all friction is removed just to more quickly get to the juicy bits. |
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| ▲ | _factor an hour ago | parent [-] | | You’re still free to walk to your destination instead of driving, it would just be a lot of time friction. Funny how reducing the friction with technology eventually increased the friction of the older transportation methods. |
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| ▲ | kakacik 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are some of us who still prefer actually learning stuff, even about light bulbs. AI is mental comfort zone so deep it will be extremely hard to ever get out of it, basically back to beginning of rat race. Maybe not applicable to you in your blissful ignorance, but sure as hell I won't put literally all my eggs into one tiny foreign-owned basket. |
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| ▲ | butlike an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nitpick, but it's not <your> AI. Would be nice if that were true, but it's not |
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| ▲ | wat10000 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've been making some good use of this stuff, but identifying light bulbs, really? That wasn't exactly difficult in the Before Times. |
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| ▲ | abirch 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The G9 was completely new to me. Sure I could try to figure it, but I'd rather be focusing on the things I care about. This is the thing that I'd historically procrastinate. To quote Adam Grant, "Procrastination is an emotional management problem not a time management problem" | |
| ▲ | brendoelfrendo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | As the old joke goes, "How many output tokens does it take to change a lightbulb?" |
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| ▲ | oulipo2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "AI has had a limited improvement over my life, so I'm happy fucking over the rest of the world by polluting water, using huge amounts of energy, and reinforcing class hierarchies, just so that I can change a lightbulb a bit easier" is peak tech-bro |
