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I sometimes use ait, but specifically for subjects that I don't know about and don't want to know about.
I'm a developer, I'm all open source and Linux etc. right now I need to build a fairly straightforward rsync solution so that I can regularly update. A directory from a windows server and fuck me is it a shit show. On Linux it'd be a 5 minute task, here I've spent hours trying to first get it to run with cygwin which let me down a rabbit hole through the planet hell and back.
I fairly quickly pulled in Claude to give suggestions on how to get rsync with windows to work because I don't want to know anything about windows. I want to actively keep that info out of my brain lest I get infected by it somehow, so I just spent an hour copy/pasting solutions and results to and from Claude
About half it's solutions were wrong and dumb, but it "knew"certain things like certain versions of rsync in cygwin having a specific bug that affected me that would have me spend hours digging through gulp windows documentation
I got to the point where I dumped cygwin and I'm going to try wsl instead (should have done that from the first moment, probably, but Claude did not tell me THAT)
Point is: AI, so far, is pretty useless and generates little to no usable specificoutput, but it's fairly good at getting you I right directions. For subjects you really do not want to get involved in, it's a nice way to just move forward without a lot of headaches
That is, of course, if you're okay with being recorded, studied, proddded, probed, have your asshole size measured because these fuckers want EVERYTHING from you in return for giving you almost nothing