I've been a participant here for what 30 years now? Lately very little participation, but I do regularly read these posts. I have also been in the computing industry for the past 40+ years. I've used Linux for the past 20 or so, and I own and operate a computer repair shop. I have for the past 20 years.

I started using Ai when it came out believing that it could help resolve tech issues. Technology changes virtually every day, and with every release, which seems to be ever so frequent. It is hard for sole individual to get up to speed and to stay up with technology (Linux, Mac, Windows).

My opinion is that Ai is only good for ideas. It is unqualified to actually suss out the cause of an issue and give precise responses, that is without the user knowing so much about the issue up front as to make the use of Ai pointless for that endeavor. It is good for ideas and to gain some clarity on how to proceed.

Some new users to Linux fail to understand that Linux is free, as in beer, and it is up to them to try; to give it their best go. The expectations that I have seen over the years from new users, as Linux has gained popularity, is that Linux is "Windows" in this regard; that the software community owes them the answer. Ai is just good enough that it can give them some clues about how to approach a problem that they have never experienced before. Clearly that's a benefit. Ai is not a replacement for new users to put in the work up front, nor is it tech support.

Cowboy Neil writes my code.

I'm still salty about the switch to SystemD in the first place. I grew up on the simplicity of Linux's three tenets:

1. Everything is a file
2. Everything should be kept as simple and discreet as possible
3. Text (ASCII) based files wherever possible for configs and logs

SystemD came along and just blew all three of those out of the water and made it look and act more like Windows with its complications. And now it's pushing non-needed items like Birthdate into the core functions.

Can't they do like Slime does for tires, and release an aerosol to see where the air current is going, then put some clumpy/powerdery stuff into the air near the leak to let it seal itself?

Don't threaten me with a good time.... seriously though, it needs to happen as it's a fake market anyway. We will recover.

So maybe i'm missing something, but it's my understanding with most blockchain based applications the big thing is calculating "proof-of-ownership". However as the size of the chain increases, the calcuation power and time required to do it also increases (I don't remember if it's linearly, logrithmically, etc.). For a low volume application, this is feasible. But how would this work with things like HFT and massive volume changes in terms of time and compute power required.

"draws on Stack Overflow's own corpus for training data" -- and just where is AI going to get its training data on future issues that come up? You can't exactly feed it a manual and hope it will understand and be able to extrapolate answers, it just regurgitates what's already been posted with a certain degree of "confidence". So if SO goes, because everyone is relying on LLMs, it becomes and oroborous situation.

From my understanding, a metric ton of code in Windows is actually multi-threaded. They started doing that with multi-core systems and then with the introduction of E-cores, took it even further.

The actual application refuses to discuss specific topics even for research and test purposes . This is wrong. The actual engine should not be programmed to limit speech. It classifies preprogrammed topics. If it doesn't like it it will refuse to participate. This is not an LLM issue. You can change LLMs and it will respond in the same way. The government should not be using it.

How much has it shrunk? 5 billion units remaining? 5% of that is large. If just US users then considerably less.

What you might not understand is that most people that have linux have many computers running linux and hence most aren't counted. Most households have more than one Windows machine too. Those can be tracked tho independent of website visits.

Didn't the post intro state which entity tracked it? Switching back and forth to browser the web doesn't cut it first me. I use mine pretty much just as an on the go gaming device.

This is exactly what happened with cable. It started off as the "ad free" alternative to over the air, and since you paid for it, it helped offset the ads. Then they started sneaking them in little bit little and upping them.

We've come full circle.

As more sites start seeing a drop off due to people getting their answers from AI, where will AI get it's data to train from if it has nothing to scrape? (Legalities and morals aside). It feels like it'll become self defeating over time or hit a wall of not having any new things to reference.

Even if it doesn't, it still provides a great baseline in a modern day language that can then be maintained. Think of how you could bootstrap old COBOL and FORTRAN apps to a modern language and then have your devs maintain it from there. Yes it may not be 100%, but if it gets you even 80% of the way there in 5 minutes, that can potentially be months and months of saved time.