LLMs empowering you to write faster isn't what we're being promised.

We're being promised a machine that will 100% replace you and will make you useless.

We're being promised that you won't need salespeople, lawyer, and especially you won't need no stinking expensive "Developers" since our AGI will 100% replace devs.

The problem is that this isn't materializing. It's all promises and iterative steps on the same concept, the GPT. A writing machine. Now they tell you that this writing machine can reason, but it can't. I can try to make GPT reason by hinting it, if A then B, then if C then what? and it doesn't give me a better result.

When GPT starts to hallucinate, it reminds me of when students haven't prepared for a test, so they're making shit up. They're not fooling anyone (especially a professor who's an expert on the subject), but for some reason, they try.

I have no doubt that AGI will be reached at some point, but, we're being promised it's "just around the corner" all the time. Just like fusion power.

what? No, there is no clean desk with this setup
you need to power it, the monitor, and the HDMI cable for the monitor. that's 3 cables coming out of this keyboard thing

I know this, I had the model 400 a few years ago and it ...just sucked. Not hardware wise, but the fact that you need at minimum 2 wires.

For a clean desk, just go with wireless keyboard and mouse and a normal computer.

the AI push is ridiculous. Who is going to see ads if you have AI agents browsing the web for you?
Who is going to produce content, if there is no ads paying for you (google is no longer driving traffic to websites due to the snippets showing on search results)
who is going to buy anything, if all of us are replaced by AI?

We're obviously in an AI bubble that's unsustainable long term. We'll need to see how much they can push it until an equilibrium is reached.

not even the lamest of AI hallucinations could have written the idiocy you just posted.

and it's actually just useless SEO bullshit telling you to restart, reinstall the program, etc .

I've also come across ai generated shit with absolutely no sense. was googling on how to do X with this library. the ai generated shit told me to use the obviouslyNamedDoX() function. that did NOT exist and never did!

model collapse is real.

it happened to me with Android auto. it asked me if I wanted to respond to a message.

I said no.

it kept listening because apparently the no was lost to engine noise.

I tried responding "no, I don't want to respond" and that made it happy.

and no, I'm not going to be polite and say please and thank you to a machine. same way I'm not going to answer full sentences to say no .

voice input is useless

also the one size fits all approach to language. I speak Spanish. none of the "voice" bullshits out there can understand my English. but it's even worse: they can't understand my Spanish either. I have to talk in Mexican or Spanish (from Madrid) for any voice recognition things to understand me, and I'm not going to do that.

tbf, openai's Whisper can actually understand many languages and dialects. and it's a free model you can run on your computer

I work for an agency. I've had to change clients in the past when contracts ended. they had a pipeline of jobs and I'd usually be starting with the new client early and the previous client was grateful they were allowed to cancel the contract with no penalty.

2024, I've been assigned to two clients this year and I'm back on the bench. I'm lucky though. 2 people were laid off because they couldn't find projects for them for over 2 months. The company is still hiring but only for "mature" contracts for very specific areas.

yes buddy, of course, tens of thousands of layoffs and people who have been looking for months, but hey, rando on slashdot says otherwise, that even "young recent grads" can find jobs in Jobland where he lives

fuck you.

as an employer it's your responsibility to give me the tools to work with. if you can't provide me with a desk and a chair and expect me to perform office work, you can kindly explain to me how I am supposed to.

but the fact that you are talking about millennials is a dead giveaway that you're a fucking boomer. a totally disconnected with reality 60+ year old that thinks a suit, a shaved face, and a firm handshake are the way to get a job.

the problem is that you refuse to accept the world has changed. you live in this world. you use the internet. you use credit cards. you take photos with a phone. you've seen the world change, for good or bad , but you've seen it change

but you have stupid beliefs and you think that thing that worked for you 40 years ago is still the way to go

grandpa, we don't have CRT TVs anymore. we don't have records, cars are electric.

but you refuse to understand even when you have proof that you're wrong. and prefer to call people "millennials" as an insult, as if being younger than you is something bad.

please, die already

I'm in Japan at the moment. I was wondering why hotels, pretty much all of them have VOD (video on demand) machines, for which you have to pay 1000 yen a night.

Well, turns out it's the same reason why Japan has 66 Tower Records locations (and many other large and small record stores). Japan still consumes physical media. Some artists like Tauro Yamashita could become legendary in the west, but they "refuse to sell for less than they think they are worth" so they only sell records in Japan (a new CD costs around USD 30).

This guy's music can only be found outside Japan by pirating it.

The same thing happens to many manga artists who refuse to license their works internationally for fear of "losing control" of their works (the way copyright works in Japan is that it's the artist who has the last word, not the publisher. so even if Sony or Kadokawa wanted to, they can't)

piracy fills this void, and the artist gets zero revenue. shame. but it's a reality that Japanese artists can't seem to grasp. people want their works, and Japanese courts have no power abroad.

what the actual fuck are you talking about?

i said it doesn't ALLOW the discussion of such things in any way. you can't even tell a story of an historical figure who died.

tiktok is not your fucking nanny, you twat.

The moderation of comments is nothing. After all, it's comments. Youtube's comment section is a cesspool.

You know what's worse? The self-censorship from creators. They want to keep the CCP happy so they censor every single video that may have anything that could be considered even remotely negative. Content found in shorts is mostly made for Tiktok and reposted to Youtube. Tiktok is all about happy, harmless, funny and positive videos. Nothing political. Nothing negative. No discussions about sex, death, suicide. Even the word "blood" is self-censored by creators.

I'm worried about newer generations growing up with that. Thinking those are bad words that shouldn't be ever said.

huh? Proprietary? RADIUS and TACACS+ have been in use for decades and they do all you need. Every single device that can be used as an access controller of some sort, suports at least RADIUS and the most basic thing it can do, besides user authentication & authorization, is usage count.

So no, you literally don't have to do anything to support "data caps". It's all built in. It has been for decades.

have you seen it lately? I had a guy doing mental gymnastics to defend Iran. basically saying "well, yes, they're a theocracy, but they're not forcing it upon people outside their borders".