Fuck AI

Use duck.ai instead of chatgpt. Not as good. But it is private.

You could use Perplexity. It is both: A search engine combined with an LLM.

Yep, I see very little value in them. I have techie friends who keep telling me I should try it more, but it just pisses me off and creeps me out. It took a long time getting this brain working as well as it does, and it's already headed back downhill. My neurons need the exercise.

FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)

I've asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn't working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.

I've asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.

What a waste of time and resources.

Claude4 works for me for writing simple code, and brainstorming. I expect it to be wrong most of the time, but it works better than google when getting started with something I have no experience with.

I tried to use it to write software to rotate my screen in a way that would please me and if I wasn't an experienced sysadmin the code it produced would have destroyed the computer's battery in a year or so.

That was this year.

Everything it makes is bad, the prose is awful, the orthography bland, the code mediocre. Any factual query I have made has had at least one critical error a non expert would miss. They are machines for giving idiots false confidence, atrophying your own skills, and producing the sort of aggressively mediocre writing one finds on reddit.

I think it is fucking hilarious to be proud about making yourself dependent on an industry that literally 450 billion dollars in the hole and 2 companies. I am sure that'll work out well for you.

Praise to the Machine God.

Hey?! Why Come You Don't Have A Tattoo?

I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.

It's like there's a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.

Everyone else is broken.

I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.

Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.

Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.

I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.

100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot

To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don't have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.

I'm not usually into stereotyping based on generations, but why is it specifically the Gen Xers who insist on talking to these LLMs all the time?