You mean…go back to how things were six months ago? I’m sure we would manage.
Is this guy important, I need to know who he is so I can think less of him for his stupid comment.
Corey Doctorow has a good article about this.
If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country’s chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country’s ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. Households, too, though perhaps a few of the younger members of those families would have to do their own homework again.
Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country’s Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors. Your country would effectively cease to exist.
Sure, tons of people are using AI, but that isn’t because they need AI to get their jobs done or even that AI makes their jobs easier. It’s because their bosses are convinced that they need to be using AI because it will change everything.
You know how some people have imposter syndrome? More people should have it.
Where do they get the confidence?
Ignorance
I got local-running AI for images and text (but the text one is slow and not as good). And I can actually code just fine myself. I would probably be slower without Claude Code. But I would still be fully able to do my job.
This will change for the next generation which is growing up with AI. But right now, an AI outage isn’t really that big of a deal.
So we definitely need open weight models and the hardware to run them to become available and affordable to everyone. Then a global AI outage becomes as unlikely as a global power outage.I look at my ai use the same way I look at streaming services: cheap entertainment of middling quality and if it stops existing then nothing of value will be lost. Worst case scenario I have to actually write coherent notes, but I’m trying to drink less so that’s already part of the plan anyway.
I’ve not intentionally used it. I shall continue on happily.
If AI disappeared tomorrow could you still go through entire workday without ChatGPT?
If computers stopped working, would you?
Some people can’t comprehend the fact that not everyone lives in silicon valley and works for a tech company.
I work in tech and I’ve never used AI for any reason ever. Never a question. Never code. My coworkers don’t understand. I’m even required to use it in new and unique ways, and I’m not going to use something I’m going to learn to rely on, especially when my critical thinking is precious to me.
I love this implication that they really can’t comprehend that those of us who oppose it largely don’t use it.
We hired this senior dev … when we asked what this PR (code change request) was, he didn’t know. He stammered and then regurgitated what AI told him. I had to tell him, he’s on thin ice if he thinks he can vibe his way through this job.
All his work is AI comments everywhere. I’m like, you didn’t read what you wrote. What fucking relevance is putting down all of this info? I said, if you don’t have the courtesy to read it, then why the fuck am I? There’s little respect for my time in dealing with those that use it so much.
So, yes, I can very much deal in a world without AI. It may be slower in some areas but yes I can. Especially if it means exposing all my shitty coworkers work habits.
Like, who tf uses AI but is anti-ai?
Me. It’s so much slop but at the same time if I grab a bunch of text from a spec book or web, I can tell it to reformat the columns and strip out stuff in a single line.
I could do the same with grep, sed, sort, trim etc but it would take longer
I’m pretty anti-AI but my work is pushing it so hard on us that there are situations I have been forced to use it to show how incorrectly it is doing the work. Could def live without that.
That makes sense.
I mean I would have a much harder time creating a “you’re a fucking moron, go fuck yourself” email in a professional manner to some of my higher ups. Other than that, I would literally miss nothing about AI.
I just started a job as a manufacturing engineer. One of my main tasks thus far has been to make work instructions describing how to assemble product in assembly areas.
Recently one of my coworkers found a new job and left behind some paper copies of work instructions when he left. Unfortunately we couldn’t find the digital copies of these work instructions on his computer. So I had to take the paper copies and make editible Visio documents that looked the same as the physical ones.
I hadn’t used AI for work stuff before so I decided to try it.
So I scanned the paper copies and gave the resulting PDF’s to copilot to see if it could just automatically make a Visio copy for me.
Suffice to say I ended up wasting an hour watching it create documents that were just a jumbled mess. After that I just gave up and did it on my own.
It took me 20 minutes to make copies of the 2 documents because all I needed to do was open a PDF viewer, highlight text, then ctrl-c ctrl-v.
So we are wasting all of our RAM on this shit?
Said the druggy about his drug.
I work in plane manufacturing, the use of ai is prohibited except for looking up simple information regarding the company, majority of the employees won’t be affected except for maybe the higher ups writing a report or some other shit.
I don’t have a subscription at home, so I have to code without an LLM frequently. The only difference is how long a task takes.
