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Slightly off topic possibly -- but I personally felt overwhelmed in recent months due to the daily onslaught of new GPT/LLM/GenAI related news. I work in a rel
by albert_e 3y ago
Slightly off topic possibly -- but I personally felt overwhelmed in recent months due to the daily onslaught of new GPT/LLM/GenAI related news.
I work in a related tech area and I have been meaning to do two things (1) prusue recertifications on a couple of professional certs that are up for renewal later this year and (2) get hands-on experience with some of the LLM and GenAI tech that is coming out so I can either broaden my professional skills to include them or at least benefit from knowing those tools thrugh inproved productivity/creativity.
What actually happened is that I achieved much less -- virtually zero -- tangible progress on both these goals.
I think some of my general interests and pursuits have similarly suffered due to this indecisiveness and overload. I may just be blaming some external factors for my laziness or ADHD but I cant escape the feeling that I am in a more confusing world now.
Why am I saying this here --
Some of the trends in user behaviour that these massive tech-oriented community sites are seeing over this period could have external factors like those I described above. Maybe people are being drawn elsewhere. Maybe people are overwhelmend, confused, or doing something else, maybe participating more in SD / MidJourney Discords.
Assuming that their website and traffic is a closed box and only the variables they change will affect the outcomes would be naiive.