Vibe coding? I hope this stupidity do not proliferate. But knowing the level of intelligence of the core AI audience...
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Looking at AI as only a technology is wrong.
Technology has implementation. This makes the difference.
Megacorporations are investing in AI led by bankers into a future against human qualities and substance. This is clear but requires non-biased view, critical thinking and following the money.
ML can be applied properly and with respect for copyright and humanity. The current crop of stochastic parrots is an insult to common sense.
I don't expect people which make money with this tech to be objective. They love the power of the moment and the promising future of domination.
But let's be honest here, this is the heist of the century.
The problem is not only hallucination, is mainly the data set.
If things are done right, there must be a technological solution for authors which work is used for training of the models to receive monetization. One of the logical ideas is of revenue sharing.
There is no way everything inside popular generators to be fair use.
You just got at your desk after scuba diving vacation pop into a Salesforce Agent and find the joy of unlimited workforce, Product Specialist Agent, Recruitment Agent, Slack Agent, integrate your Tableau data, your CRM data, your email data, your slack data into a big Salesforce Black Data Hole and lose your job in the next iteration.
Just because greed has no limits and optimized vertical integration is inevitable. I am loving it. And waiting for my UBI and social rating AI QBR/KPI.
The ultimate corporate suicide in action. Agent Smith incoming.
Generative AI is a dud. ML has a lot of applications. I use my smartphone for calls, chat and banking apps. I use my iPad only for drawing, mail and some games.
For everything else, I have computers. With real OS.
Don't limit your mind to a predefined timeline.
I have a friend, his grandfather 69, completed a law degree and opened an office.:)
P.S. The tech industry ageism is standard which must be outlawed. It is not objective and moves the industry in the wrong direction.
Sidenote: Since 2018 all my cars are carbadge. Restored fully a CLK 200 Kompressor and Jaguar X308. I cannot stand the current cars. Neither designwise nor tech. There is a lost art of honest design, aesthetic and pure functionality in today's automotive logic.
All the infotainment needs you have is live in your phone/tablet. You can use it with every carbadge car you can imagine.
I enjoy my cars. They are stylish and reliable. Something that I would not say about my 2016 BMW 6. Next stop Toyota Land Cruiser from 1995.
I had a nightmare week with an office Mac Mini, 2018 . When the employee tried to update to Sequoia, he faced the error-try again conundrum. So logically, I introduced the restore option.
Oh boy, what a shitshow. So after faced by 8 hours restore process option, I proceeded to USB installation. Due to T2 restriction, enabling the boot process in restore utility menu is mandatory.
Surprisingly, this cannot be done without working installation and admin user. So installing the OS which was the default for the computer and booting again was the next step.
Long story short, the Mini stopped working in the middle of the installation. No chime sound. No light. We decided that it is dead for good.
And then I got mad. Perfectly working computer bricked by slow and buggy restore process. 8 hours? Did Apple have no money to afford more server speed from Akamai? Or deliberately f&cks up the process, users to go and buy the new stuff? HMM.
Solution:
So I proceeded to DFU mode with non-recommended cable USB2 to USB-C (from my Logitech mouse, with data capabilities.) You power up the mini by holding the startup button and push the power cable in. USB-C must be connected to the first thunderbolt port after the HDMI input. Then magically you have a connection in your host mac Finder and proceed to restore the T2 firmware. Install as usual from the USB stick and revive the Mini.
P.S. Found bits and pieces to come up with this solution from hardware repair forums. If you call your Apple "support" you know the procedure. Come to the store and buy more.
Just another reason to use ONLY local LLM's.
If your perception of yourself is firmly attached to the collective projections imposed by governments, ideology, religion, or any form of group thinking, you are cooked.
In times like this, one must find the connection with nature and take action. Get out from the cities. Search places with enough water and option of growing your food locally. Be prepared for this activity to be outlawed under the Global Climate Emergency act, which the UN is ready to activate under the command of elite families and their servants in governments, military, and science institutions.
In essence, when your money is truly worth nothing and your life is driven by debt, you are a slave for life.
The next decade of support business is here. Fix my "hallucination" market. Thank you, Microsoft. You did it again.
How to inform your professional audience that their Figma, Miro, Adobe files are used for training, a result which will remove them from the work market and give their knowledge to the unprofessional masses.
As a professional designer with more of 20 years experience, moving through graphic, web, UX, PM I have a strong disdain with all Adobe connected software.
In the past, when Macromedia started eating their market by introducing more affordable and capable software, I jumped on a bandwagon and supported Freehand, Firefox, Flash and Director. Only to be again in Adobe hell.
When moved from Sketch to Figma, the news of possible acquisition made me mad.
The Adobe products are total bloatware, and nothing of substance or innovation in their base offering has never materialized. They are the epitome of corporate greed, dark patterns and monopolistic hell.
But now we have a lot of monsters around. Microsoft. Apple. Google. Meta. And the new kid under the block: Closed AI. The same type of illness but in a new form. They appointed NSA head for security and announced that will pursue profit first. Surpassing in speed, Googles transition from "Don't be evil" to "Be evil at any cost".
The software industry is eating the world, killing careers, stealing copyrighted data, centralizing and integrating in a monster of deals to deliver nothing of substance. Just food for shareholders who have no ability of systemic thinking and did not see the elephant in the room: Communistic Tech driven Dystopia.
Propaganda of empty promises and no government control. Future for the people who trust the machine more than a professionals and experts.
What bright future for humanity will deliver AI art? The delimiting factor when removing technical skill set will be taste. So how the next generations will form this taste without a curriculum and practice?
They will prompt the taste? Good luck with this.
Here is a list of alternatives for the Adobe crapware.
Vector illustration:
Learn Inkscape, aside of instability under macOS, the software is capable and has fine tools which will deliver everything you need as a designer.
Affinity will become a subscription based software eaten by Canva and AI "art".
For digital painting: Apple Pencil removed 60 percent of my Wacom workflow, and Procreate is a monster of an app. For the desktop stuff, I use Krita.
3d: Blender for polygonal modelling, animation, rendering, sculpting (Plasticity if you are into mixed workflow), Rhino 3d for surfacing and generative modelling (The price is high only at a first glance).
Photography: I learned that all the one app solutions are not future-proof. Moved my workflow into a system of folders and markdown notes. The capability of Raw Therapy combined with Krita are more than enough.
Video editing, compositing and Mogrpaph There is a champion: Blackmagic Design with DaVinci Resolve and Fusion.
You can use Unreal Engine and Blender for Mograph to escape After Effects black hole.
Rive is a mix between After and Flash which is gaining popularity (sadly subscription based).
For UX/UI design, we have a real contender to Sketch and Figma in the face of Penpot. Free. Open source. Possible enterprise goals with option of self-host installation. Baked in interface for token centric design process, real grid and flex box implementation (not the fake auto-layout) and developer friendly without Figma upselling strategies or mac only dungeon of Sketch.
But the offer of long battery, silent and powerful computing device is still in their hands.
Anyway, the reason in the near future will be the AI intrusive implementation on both leading desktop platforms, so Linux will continue to be the choice of privacy conscious.:)
After joining EU and NATO. No army. No agriculture. No serious manufacturing capability. Corruption. Crime. Failing infrastructure. And now fractured energy sector. The cheap IT labor and political mafia money laundering keeps the illusion a float.
Lost identity and culture. 500 years under Ottoman Empire. 45 under Soviets (statistically economy and population growth in the period). And 34 under Britain and USA (total failure and no sovereignty).
Cyrillic alphabet is the most phonetically accurate, they have a letter for every sound you make with your mouth. One sad story for the country founded in 681 b.c.
The First Bulgarian Empire (Church Slavonic: блъгарьско цѣсарьствиѥ, romanized: blŭgarĭsko tsěsarǐstvije; Bulgarian: Първо българско царство) was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It was founded in 680–681 after part of the Bulgars, led by Asparuh, moved south to the northeastern Balkans.