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AI is snake oil. It sells you a slot machine in the guise of a colleague. Oh, not using it right? Not the right model? Insert coin to continue. Snake oil, tot
by specproc 4mo ago
AI is snake oil. It sells you a slot machine in the guise of a colleague.
Oh, not using it right? Not the right model? Insert coin to continue.
Snake oil, total snake oil.
- holoduke 4mo agoI just reversed engineered large parts of my 2011 car odb comms. Was able to hook a stm32 board to the car communication and have full control over a lot of stuff so that I can build my own instrument cluster from a lcd screen. It literally took me one evening to get the first proof of concept working. I never touched stm32 stuff before.
- specproc 4mo agoGood for you, son. I've just spent the whole f*king day screaming at an agent on a deadline.
- rolandog 4mo agoThis right here. People simp for LLM companies as if their experience of using the out-of-pocket top-of-the-line "team of PhD's" paid models will be what is deployed when trying to contact your bank, insurance, etc. No,... once tech companies stop playing the "no/some revenue until we own the world" VC game, we'll all be stuck trying to talk to GlueSnifferGPT when reporting an emergency.
- dgellow 4mo agoyou did none of this. Did you personally learn something from that experience? Other than how to use your agent
- holoduke 4mo agoOf course I learned from it. I mean the reverse engineering part which is basically try and error is something I rather skip. The remaining things like wiring the hardware is still there. The boring stuff is what the LLM can do for me. I still find the process to get stuff working challenging and interesting. It's not only about the end result. It's just a different approach than the old school low level one
- tptacek 4mo agoThis doesn't even make sense. Maybe if you fleshed it out?
- specproc 4mo agoSnake oil is something not medicine sold as medicine. AI is something not a colleague (a slot machine), sold as a colleague.
- tptacek 4mo agoRight, that's what you already said. What I don't understand is the "slot machine" analogy you're making. In what sense is AI a "slot machine"? Are you talking about the stocks of AI companies?
- totallymike 4mo agoIt makes perfect sense to me. Type in a prompt like “how can I make the cheese on my pizza stringier” and maybe it’ll tell you to use different cheeses, but maybe it’ll tell you to add glue. If you don’t like the answer, don’t worry, they’re building more data centers in poor neighborhoods so you can keep submitting the prompt until you get a better one.