• madthumbs
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    -917 hours ago

    It will replace a lot of crappy jobs the same way the industrial revolution did with machines making it possible to improve lifestyles (which is what machines did).

    The people that typically hate LLMs (AI) are the same people that don’t mind developers flooding the market with ‘free software’ (which can thwart real competition, not just reduce paying jobs).

    It has gotten me on the right path on occasions where it was wrong, and when I question information it will most often tell me ‘you’re right!’ and have a good chance of a real answer.

    The biggest failure I’ve had with it is trying to get the ffmpegthumbnailer working in Windows. Other than that, it’s annoying how many times I ask for instructions for Windows and it tells me to use blatant Linux commands (or package managers).

    • @pivot_root
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      The people that typically hate LLMs (AI) are the same people that don’t mind developers flooding the market with ‘free software’ (which can thwart real competition, not just reduce paying jobs).

      And “fuck the free market” while we’re at it, am I right?

      The only people who hate free software are those who either can’t compete in quality with FOSS offerings, or have something to gain through vendor lock-in. And neither of those are beneficial for anybody other than the software vendor.

      • madthumbs
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        -29 hours ago

        You didn’t pay for or invest your time in software development did you?

        • @pivot_root
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          You would be mistaken, then.

    • @BassTurd
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      113 hours ago

      Anecdotally, every AI has generations to go before it’s good enough to replace a person entirely. It’s a solid tool for people that know how to code, but it’s nothing more than hobby or reporting worthy to someone with limited to no programming experience. It does not make secure or efficient code, and it’s only as good as the input, which will not be good from someone that doesn’t understand how to code. Anyone that blindly trusts generated code and pushes into production, is insanely reckless and grossly unqualified to have that kind of power.

      • madthumbs
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        19 hours ago

        Agreed, at the moment people who understand the code are still valuable. Also knowing what code is capable is as well.

    • @kitnaht
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      317 hours ago

      To be fair a lot of the windows commands ARE now Linux commands, thanks to WSL. Lots of people using it directly from within windows now instead of trying to make windows-only solutions.