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Finally good news about the AI doing something good for the people.

by javcasas 11mo ago

p1esk 11mo ago
I’m not blind and AI has been great for me too.
- majkinetor 11mo ago
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  - talesfromearth 11mo ago
    The smiley at the end doesn’t hide how awful your comment is.
    - majkinetor 11mo ago
      So serious... you should relax a bit and work up on your humor reception/understanding (smiley intentionally left out this time)
Workaccount2 11mo ago
People need to understand that a lot of angst around AI comes from AI enabling people to do things that they formally needed to go through gatekeepers for. The angst is coming from the gatekeepers. AI has been a boon for me and my non-tech job. I can pump out bespoke apps all day without having to get bent on $5000/yr/usr engineering software packages. I have a website for my side business that looks and functions professionally and was done with a $20 monthly AI subscription instead of a $2000 contractor.
- MyFirstSass 11mo ago
  I highly doubt "pumping out bespoke apps all day" is possible yet besides 100% boilerplate, and when possible then no good for any other purpose than enshittifiying the web, and at that point not profitable because everyone can do it. I use AI daily as a senior coder for search and docs, and when used for prototyping you still need to be a senior coder to go from say 60% boilerplate to 100% finished app/site/whatever unless it's incredibly simple.
  - Workaccount2 11mo ago
    Often the problem with tech people is they think software only exists for tech or for being sold to others from tech. Nothing I do is in the tech industry. It's all manufacturing and all the software is for in-house processes. Believe it or not, software is useful to everyone and no longer needs to originate from someone who only knows software.
    - MyFirstSass 11mo ago
      I'm saying you can't do what you're saying without knowing code at the moment. You didn't give any examples of the valuable bespoke apps that you are creating by the hour. I simply don't believe you, and the arrogant salesy tone doesn't help.
      - Workaccount2 11mo ago
        LLMs can pretty reliably write 5-7k LOC. If your needs fit in a program that size, you are pretty much good to go. It will not rewrite PCB_CAD 2025, but it will happily create a PCB hole alignment and conversion app, eliminated the need for the full PCB_CAD software if all you need is that one toolset from it. Very, very, few pieces of software need to be full package enterprise productivity suites. If you just make photos black and white and resize them, you don't need Photoshop to do it. Or even ms paint. Any LLM will make a simple free program with no ads to do it. Average people generally do very simple dumb stuff with the expensive software they buy.
  - vjvjvjvjghv 11mo ago
    This is the same as the discussion about using Excel. Excel has its limitations, but it has enabled millions of people to do pretty sophisticated stuff without the help of “professionals”. Most of the stuff us tech people do is also basically some repetitive boilerplate. We just like to make things more complex than they need to be. I am always a little baffled why seemingly every little CRUD site that has at most 100 users needs to be run on Kubernetes with several microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and whatever. As far as enshittification goes, this was happening long before AI. It probably started with SEO and just kept going from there.
- BeFlatXIII 11mo ago
  AI is divine retribution for artists being really annoying on Twitter.

Finally good news about the AI doing something good for the people.

p1esk 11mo ago

I’m not blind and AI has been great for me too.

majkinetor 11mo ago
[flagged]
- talesfromearth 11mo ago
  The smiley at the end doesn’t hide how awful your comment is.
  - majkinetor 11mo ago
    So serious... you should relax a bit and work up on your humor reception/understanding (smiley intentionally left out this time)

Workaccount2 11mo ago

People need to understand that a lot of angst around AI comes from AI enabling people to do things that they formally needed to go through gatekeepers for. The angst is coming from the gatekeepers. AI has been a boon for me and my non-tech job. I can pump out bespoke apps all day without having to get bent on $5000/yr/usr engineering software packages. I have a website for my side business that looks and functions professionally and was done with a $20 monthly AI subscription instead of a $2000 contractor.

MyFirstSass 11mo ago
I highly doubt "pumping out bespoke apps all day" is possible yet besides 100% boilerplate, and when possible then no good for any other purpose than enshittifiying the web, and at that point not profitable because everyone can do it. I use AI daily as a senior coder for search and docs, and when used for prototyping you still need to be a senior coder to go from say 60% boilerplate to 100% finished app/site/whatever unless it's incredibly simple.
- Workaccount2 11mo ago
  Often the problem with tech people is they think software only exists for tech or for being sold to others from tech. Nothing I do is in the tech industry. It's all manufacturing and all the software is for in-house processes. Believe it or not, software is useful to everyone and no longer needs to originate from someone who only knows software.
  - MyFirstSass 11mo ago
    I'm saying you can't do what you're saying without knowing code at the moment. You didn't give any examples of the valuable bespoke apps that you are creating by the hour. I simply don't believe you, and the arrogant salesy tone doesn't help.
    - Workaccount2 11mo ago
      LLMs can pretty reliably write 5-7k LOC. If your needs fit in a program that size, you are pretty much good to go. It will not rewrite PCB_CAD 2025, but it will happily create a PCB hole alignment and conversion app, eliminated the need for the full PCB_CAD software if all you need is that one toolset from it. Very, very, few pieces of software need to be full package enterprise productivity suites. If you just make photos black and white and resize them, you don't need Photoshop to do it. Or even ms paint. Any LLM will make a simple free program with no ads to do it. Average people generally do very simple dumb stuff with the expensive software they buy.
- vjvjvjvjghv 11mo ago
  This is the same as the discussion about using Excel. Excel has its limitations, but it has enabled millions of people to do pretty sophisticated stuff without the help of “professionals”. Most of the stuff us tech people do is also basically some repetitive boilerplate. We just like to make things more complex than they need to be. I am always a little baffled why seemingly every little CRUD site that has at most 100 users needs to be run on Kubernetes with several microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and whatever. As far as enshittification goes, this was happening long before AI. It probably started with SEO and just kept going from there.
BeFlatXIII 11mo ago
AI is divine retribution for artists being really annoying on Twitter.