I think AI exists to make humans better, not to replace us (which it can’t anyway). I use LLM’s with new topics answer questions and tutor me (for instance with multivariable calculus -course this spring I asked Claude to create 10 practice exercises, which I then did and it reviewed. Harder ones it did with me step by step.) hopefully not needing them after awhile, when I gain proficinency. Automating humans away is not going to work. There’s a reason why we are the apex predator and ruled this planet for million years.

You have very optimistic assumptions about AI. Of course AI will not "replace you" on its own, but some person in the company will decide it.

That’s first time I hear I’m optimistic about AI. I am as optimistic as I am about a hammer or a liquid scale. They are tools and they are good for particular jobs, if ypu know how to use them.

I am in careers that is one of the more sheltered from automation. Present tech layoffs I suspect are more due to insane overhiring during covid as well as outsourcing. I am sure some companies have gone to full AI psychosis -mode, but they are taking a massive risk. Time will tell.

> which it can’t anyway

I agree, but it doesn't change the reality that AI is the stated reason for many layoffs.

I don’t think the problem is too many SaaS -applications, but platform technologies centralising insane power and wealth to very very few, who then use it to turn all those idealistic utopian ideas to something that centralises even more power to them. Users become the product, because quite frankly we are all just cattle to them.

That is not something you fix with a new app.

What do you think we can do to get around that? Break up centralized platforms? Try to compete there?

You tell me. But it is not like US gov does not have power to break them up and regulate them if there was actual will. Also there’s no reason why Roblox is let to monetise predators chasing children or Grok be used to undress children, and certainly it would stop immediately if people in power would care at all, or.. I could go on.

- Remove AI from your editor completely. - Start a project which is easy and fun for you,something you did when first learning to code. Text-based adventure game, or some silly little app that is just for fun. - Or take a new language or some aspect of coding, that you have only brushed over, but want to learn better, and learn it properly by doing coding exercises or some silly project that teaches you the syntax etc. - Most importantly relearn how fun coding is

I use Claude only to ask questions (in separate virtual desktop, no chat inside the editor) if I can’t grokk the doc’s or find the answer online. This keeps the LLM input valuable, but not using it as a crutch, and me honest and learning constantly.

  1. I don't have AI in my editor in the first place, mostly use web chat with a bit of gemini CLI
  2. Good ideas; worth considering
  3. I'll pass
  4. That is my goal

I think the last time I really tried to code by hand was a temporal clock. I thought it would be simple but I bit off more than I could chew math-wise. The last time I was sucessful (as far as I can remember) was a small PR to a game mod manager.

”Friends”. Yeah, right.

(I admit, I am guilty).

I have been paying for Kagi since last year and love it. I am not going back to using Google crap.

My eyesight is not even that bad, but I fpund the large contrast and for really easy and enjoyable to read.

I don’t need to prove anything. First of all, if one thinks a piece of media is AI-generated they probably find them lacking in something else than just in style. AI or no AI, the content is what matters. Problem is that if in a conversation, education or say, art exhibition, you feel you have no meaningful input to share, it is very unlikely that the model you use will either. It will only answer your prompt and without your meaningful input, it will be just a bot saying platituded.

Other than that: 1) I typo a lot 2) I think I have my own voice in writing, which is recognisable 3) Likewise in art or music, even perhaps code

If your genuine human-made writing uses tyle guides that sprinkle em-dashes unnecessarily and uses forms such as ”Honestly? Blah bla blah.” the problem is not AI. Read Hemingway or Wilde or anything please.

Am I a bit thick, but first we created this amazing way to transfer any text very cheaply and fast over network, then we (well, I think it was Meta and Google) decided that no, everything must be a video, then we added subtitles and AI-transcriptions to those videos and now we just dowload transcriptions of those videos presumably to feel LLM to make summaries of them in order to… Read. Them.

I think I’m gonna go read a book.

Good point! I haven't found a faster way to consume info than reading. But depends on the type of learner you are (visual, auditory, hands-on/interactive, etc)

At least the graphic design is 5/5, good job! I tried it out and it looks very promising.

Now I know what people say here all the time, first time this creepy feeling just from headlines that it is completely LLM-generated text. Are the results same as with Ecosia, since it uses the same index? Their marketing is confusing as hell.

They got the "Google Search Is Dead" part right, at least.

If you want a better search engine, Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) is a good place to start. Yes, it's a paid product -- once you outgrow their free plan, which offers 100 searches -- but they've got a lot of quality-of-life features & they're focused on user privacy. I've been using it exclusively for 2.5 years already -- I haven't touched Google, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, or any others -- and I have no regrets paying for it.

The only downside I can think of regarding Kagi is that it's US-based. But until another company is able to do as good a job while operating outside of a Five Eyes country ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes ), I'll be sticking with Kagi.

I use Kagi already. They are pretty amazing. It is definitely worth the money.

I concur.