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There are instances where we don’t exist. We exist here right now though which is cool. Say what you want and shoot your shot.
i hope so!
imagine getting up and math is solved, but you still have to deal with bullshit lol
but at least as a software engineer, i always knew my work was "never done" and so it was common to build a bunch of code that might be thrown away, either because it didn't serve our customers (the mvp or pilot fails to meet demand), or because we found a better way to do it and so we deprecate it.
some people got too attached to the code and honestly they were the types to be filtered out fast.. way too emotional and hard to work with. getting attached to code meant you actually don't advance (after all, in our case, we were a business serving customers and not a hobby artisan shop). attachment leads one to hold back due to some misplaced cognitive load.
isn't the goal of working on "advancing the field/product/whatever" to always be solving/selling/whatever?
maybe in your hands, with your knowledge and experience over the last 20+ years, you can use AI to make leaps and bounds by steering it properly towards whatever solution or goal?
you should be thankful someone figured out how to capitalize your labor because you certainly were unable to do it on your own.
surely, you can show us how it is done?
i think it’s going to be a mix of product design and maybe a mix of sales/marketing/etc. involved so that engineers can steer the ai to a solution.
what about world mobs and ai pvp players?
like how cool would it be to be roaming around and there’s a group of 3 or 4 horde or alliance bots wandering around as a war band or maybe they’re doing a special mission.
or a world boss who could engage in more interesting ways than just a fight.
a richer world would be cool in a game where it’s so casual and optimized there’s almost zero social interactions anymore and the world is barren.
i haven’t played wow since cata but that’s what my friends say about it to me. even in cata the world would feel dead.
sorry but it is going to play out in a boring way. ideally, it is an opportunity for a global reset to do/be better.
i mean consider that we share our planet with:
billions of religious fucknuts who believe “life” after death is more important and literally believe nonsense
billions of uneducated who can’t be taught no matter how hard we try (white knights are welcome to keep trying). in 1st world developed countries, everyone has access to all the information in their palm but they get addicted to gambling, porn, and other lowest common denominator type shit instead.
billions of polluters. i mean is it really that hard to not drop your plastic trash right where you happened to be when the chips were all eaten? is it not embarrassing to go outside and see a landfill outside your house?
i’d rather we use ai to program these automatons towards a predictable future that works for those of us who actually try and care.
lmfao
when the ai would do something wrong, i'd rather use it as an opportunity to understand how i can prompt it better or engineer better ways get shit done.
i've literally had very rare, mostly zero issues with ai giving me slop over the last few months, once i took the time to undertand how to use these tools effectively instead of complaining.
how the fuck am i, an individual who was already fucked by the system there, going to do anything?
life is unfair. i didn't choose to be born in shit conditions. i'm not going to die in shit conditions, that's for sure.
you and others like you can deal with the empathy part, weaponize it or whatever. that's your problem, not mine.
what is "fair" in your opinion?
my apps take maybe 1-2 days max. usually hours.
i read some of these posts and it feels like the experience with boomers i had to help with their computers at my college job.
they did the least and expected the most.
can’t use a computer (they’ve had like 30 years now in first world developed countries)
many can’t even use their smart phone beyond calling, texting (many can’t type well), and doom scrolling (they get addicted to drugs, gambling, and other LCD activities)
many read at a 6th grade level. most can’t even calculate tip in their head.
meanwhile, the same smartphone can give them access to literally any information and knowledge the world in seconds. and now gemini can explain stuff since most ppl can barely read or think.
it’s sad out there.
but more importantly. it’s not my problem.
maybe i’m just not crying about it because im an immigrant from a 3rd world hellhole so all i and my family knows is how to adapt to do better. a handful of us in a sea of billions.
i’m going to take advantage of technology that is freely available in many cases to improve my standard of living because change is the only constant in life.
100 years ago Market St was covered in horse shit.
today it’s human shit (sad but true, but not really) but more so that there are cars, lime scooters, BART, etc.
times changed.
i had to adapt to 3x my take home TC to get a job at a unicorn that ipo’d to like 10x or more my NW because i felt what it was like to work in an area where ppl were just laid off and i didn’t want to work 60 hours a week to impress some suit.
my relative is a phd research biochem scientist.
he had to adapt by taking a couple of years to switch sub-fields, taking on new roles and now in his latest research role he uses AI heavily to assist him to analyze data for patterns that humans had to previously brute force. he works on cancer research btw.
adapt.
crying is cheap and easy, for people who were going to be left behind regardless.
gpt 6 Luna can be swapped for 5.6 terra or even sol in some cases, and it is much cheaper.
source: i have a lot of evals, and i have ai find the best model for me for those evals over time so i save $ lol
it didn't exist 100 years ago
adapt
next year, astra tier model will be $2/1M or whatever (point is - cheaper) and whatever model is $10/1M will be insane like astra feels today.
also, in any agentic workflow, you use models of various levels together... not just one model of one level...
i just use X and follow smart people in areas i find interesting (business, tech, science, diy) as they share what they're working on, what cool findings or observations they post, and engage with them.
i see a lot of cynical takes here, but you know.. i've not yet built a 1b+ ARR company. i've not gone to a elite medical research school and then worked on breakthroughs. i've not done many things, and i find it impressive when others have actually done/shipped something that is 1000x more than i have.
i doubt most people here are as smart as they think they are. they're in the middle with me lol, the outliers on the right side of the bell curve are special for a reason. might as well keep an open mind!