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I find it odd that Ms seems to invest in AI so heavily and yet, I can't still do a basic text selection in copilot's chat in Intellij and VSCode

by eurekin 10mo ago

skydhash 10mo ago
It’s all about signaling and posturing to Wall Street. To this date, I’ve not encountered any user that said: “I have a need for this, how much does it cost?”, kinda like how you would buy a software license. Instead it’s sold like a street drug “Wanna try? The first’s on me” Except that is not good and the user doesn’t get addicted and now, they’re trespassing onto people’s space. Every comment that seems pro AI either falls in “I’m playing with it now and it’s a nice toy” or “It’s very useful for me, I can’t tell you how, but trust me that it is”.
- eurekin 10mo ago
  Yes, people steal ideas and sell as their own. That is actually happening. Communities share less publicly, but if you know how to poke, you can find a gem or two. Anybody actually productive with LLMs just doesn't want to invest energy to fight the unwinnable mob mentality. I don't remember any time in my career, where you got such a backlash for using a tech. One example of a an absolute gem is this: https://youtu.be/vlD8CXr20OI?si=J2A5nrqjkFCqU_6R https://youtu.be/vlD8CXr20OI?si=J2A5nrqjkFCqU_6R Had I been still working with computer graphics, this would've been a true game changer. You can see how little views this video has. There is however a whole subreddit dedicated to sell this exact workflow (and even only the first node). There's a similar story with programming, but people are disincentived to share that. Github Copilot has potential, but seems abandoned already and I find it very odd, because it's the one product with actual substance
  - eurekin 10mo ago
    Here's another potential example https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pm5ik5/so_slightly_off_topic_but_does_anyone_else_here https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pm5ik5/so_slig... Could be a dud, but I'd ask the person about details and perhaps it's a good use case
- pacifika 10mo ago
  That sounds a bit like shareware

I find it odd that Ms seems to invest in AI so heavily and yet, I can't still do a basic text selection in copilot's chat in Intellij and VSCode

by eurekin 10mo ago

I find it odd that Ms seems to invest in AI so heavily and yet, I can't still do a basic text selection in copilot's chat in Intellij and VSCode

skydhash 10mo ago

It’s all about signaling and posturing to Wall Street. To this date, I’ve not encountered any user that said: “I have a need for this, how much does it cost?”, kinda like how you would buy a software license. Instead it’s sold like a street drug “Wanna try? The first’s on me” Except that is not good and the user doesn’t get addicted and now, they’re trespassing onto people’s space. Every comment that seems pro AI either falls in “I’m playing with it now and it’s a nice toy” or “It’s very useful for me, I can’t tell you how, but trust me that it is”.

eurekin 10mo ago
Yes, people steal ideas and sell as their own. That is actually happening. Communities share less publicly, but if you know how to poke, you can find a gem or two. Anybody actually productive with LLMs just doesn't want to invest energy to fight the unwinnable mob mentality. I don't remember any time in my career, where you got such a backlash for using a tech. One example of a an absolute gem is this: https://youtu.be/vlD8CXr20OI?si=J2A5nrqjkFCqU_6R https://youtu.be/vlD8CXr20OI?si=J2A5nrqjkFCqU_6R Had I been still working with computer graphics, this would've been a true game changer. You can see how little views this video has. There is however a whole subreddit dedicated to sell this exact workflow (and even only the first node). There's a similar story with programming, but people are disincentived to share that. Github Copilot has potential, but seems abandoned already and I find it very odd, because it's the one product with actual substance
- eurekin 10mo ago
  Here's another potential example https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pm5ik5/so_slightly_off_topic_but_does_anyone_else_here https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pm5ik5/so_slig... Could be a dud, but I'd ask the person about details and perhaps it's a good use case
pacifika 10mo ago
That sounds a bit like shareware