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So not only does he have to show what he built with AI, what he built with AI has to be interesting and unique to you? Why? He's not selling it to you. Seems l

• saulpw 8mo ago
  I'm actually becoming an AI convert myself. If there is ideology here, it's not about AI, but about keeping trash off the streets. For example, I checked out their "Fictional Encyclopedia". It's an absolutely terrible project, much worse than useless, because it claims to be an "encyclopedia" right in the name (the tagline is "Everything about everything"), yet it's engineered to just completely make things up, and nowhere on the page does it indicate this! I looked up my own niche open-source project, and was prepared to be at least somewhat impressed that it pulled together facts on the fly into an encyclopedic form. For the first couple of paragraphs that seemed like it might be the case, then it veered into complete fantasy and just kept going. Like what is the point of this? I can already ask a chatbot the same question and at least then I have explicit indicators that it might be hallucinating. But this page deliberately confuses truth and reality for absolutely zero purpose. It's a waste of brain cells, for both the creator and the consumer, with no redeeming value. It's neither interesting, nor different, nor valuable. AND it's burning tokens to boot! I mean, come on, the bar is not that high. Some of stavros' projects may even be over it. But the first projects I checked were sub-basement, and I am not interested in searching through mounds of trash for what might be a quarter dollar. I'm actually kind of disappointed that stavros didn't have (or apply) the sense or taste to whittle down that list of 11 (!) projects to some 3 that show off the value of their work. Which I'm starting to understand is everyone's issue with AI brain rot; it seems to just encourage "here's everything, I dunno, you figure it out" which is maddening and deserves the pushback it gets.
• munksbeer 8mo ago
  > Seems like the bar is now it has to be a mass market product. The bar for this will just keep moving. Some people are heavily invested in the anti-stance, so human nature being what it is, you've little hope of changing their minds anyway.
• Grimblewald 8mo ago
  no, the bar is accurate and descriptive descriptions. You know how AI words are typically hollow and devoid of meaning? loads of grammatically fine words but not actually saying anything? well, these repos are the github version of that. Lots of words but so starved of meaning I shut off mentally trying to read half of them. Some descriptions are outright lies.
• timacles 8mo ago
  It’s kind of like the beginning sequence from back to the future 1 when it shows all the random inventions at Docs house. Yeah they are interesting, I guess they do something but are any of them actually delivering value? That’s when you get into the argument of what is value and to whom, but as AIs role in society of generating productivity, that’s pretty disputable if every person being able to build their own train set that turns on the toaster and makes coffee is going to move us forward as a species like , say the internet. That’s really the only argument, is the use of LLMs worth the trillions of dollars and selling out the future of humanity for. Not is it fun Bildungsroman quirky apps really fast