cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46123456
That’s how I felt waking up this morning (as of posting). Who else can relate?
You’re directing your hate the wrong way, the problem is how generative AI is employed by the greedy, not the technology itself.
Wrong. Slop generating and cognitive offloading is bad and even the most mundane use of local AI contributes to ecological collapse for nothing in return.
Lose the wilful ignorance, dude
The fucking irony. I don’t respect you and you will get nothing in return for your subservience, just so you know.
What am I being subservient to? Don’t say corporations, I’d far rather run ai locally using open sourced and open weight models, or on duck.ai
You haters are dull, and less creative and more often wrong than the AI you so loudly hate
Corporations and the billionaires
WRONG. Try again? Better yet, don’t
How do you employ ai non-greedily, pray tell?
Fucking easily? “Claude, convert these Postman JSON collections to JMeter load tests with switchable environments based on this shared config file we already use for our existing JMeter tests” when you barely know Postman OR JMeter and you can still do it in half the time of a developer who knows both.
If that’s another language to you, how about “Making people print this job application PDF, fill it out, scan it and email it to us is insane, old-timey silliness from the turn of the last century. Convert the PDF to a fillable form, and make sure the fillable fields are properly located between the lines of the field names they correspond to” and then it just does it and now applicants can apply online and you didn’t have to pay an expensive human to do menial one-off work in applications they don’t really know.
There’s a ton of dumb, time-wasting shit you don’t have to do anymore because you can just make the robot do it. It’s not all just straight plagiarism and stealing artwork and dead Internet propaganda-bot garbage. You can use it for good or evil. The power generation and inefficiency are still unsolved problems, the super aggressive build-out arms race is pure idiocy and we absolutely need to slow this whole thing down, and I’ll never forgive these greedy fucks for ruining the PC components market every few years, first crypto now this, but there are use cases that allow people to do things they couldn’t otherwise do.
Properly used, AI is a force multiplier. Improperly used, it’s a resource-burning race to the bottom, but if you can’t think of legitimate uses for a general-purpose software robot you can tell to do tedious stuff in plain language and it’ll just do it with a bit of guidance, then I don’t know what to tell you.
convert these Postman JSON collections to JMeter load tests
Just use jmeter! Jmeter and corpo-curl are two different tools, it’s really not that hard to design your own test plans.
I also don’t understand making the receptionist do it, e2e tests are actually important and should be designed by someone familiar with the system they are testing.
Convert the PDF to a fillable form
You mean ocr? The thing that we already had an ai boom/bust cycle about in the 60s?! The thing the USPS has used to read chickenscratch addresses on all envelopes since the 70s?
Here, this project has been filling your exact use case for more than a dozen years now: https://github.com/ocrmypdf
and make sure the fillable fields are properly located between the lines of the field names they correspond to" and then it just does it and now applicants can apply online and you didn’t have to pay an expensive human to do menial one-off work in applications they don’t really know.
There’s a ton of dumb, time-wasting shit you don’t have to do anymore because you can just make the robot do it. It’s not all just straight plagiarism and stealing artwork and dead Internet propaganda-bot garbage. You can use it for good or evil. The power generation and inefficiency are still unsolved problems, the super aggressive build-out arms race is pure idiocy and we absolutely need to slow this whole thing down, and I’ll never forgive these greedy fucks for ruining the PC components market every few years, first crypto now this, but there are use cases that allow people to do things they couldn’t otherwise do.
Properly used, AI is a force multiplier. Improperly used, it’s a resource-burning race to the bottom, but if you can’t think of legitimate uses for a general-purpose software robot you can tell to do tedious stuff in plain language and it’ll just do it with a bit of guidance, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Big wall of nothing, didn’t read.
Your performative hate is dull