Fuck AI

No.

Just use a rubber duck, it consumes no power.

No, it isn't. In my opinion, using LLMs/"AI" for anything is unethical, and unacceptable.

That includes "open-source" models too, because they're all trained by scraping the internet, and many of them (especially Qwen) try very hard to get around any and all attempts at blocking them. Not only do they not respect neither /robots.txt nor x-robots-tag headers, Qwen - and many other models - collect training data by using residential proxies, and by trying to fake real browsers, to get around crawler defenses.

For receipts, see here for example: AliBaba sent over a million requests my way in a single day. That's already a lot, but: I'm firewalling these crawlers off for 12 hours after the first hit. It would have been a lot more if it weren't for the firewall (before the firewall, I often had 60-70 million requests / day from Alibaba alone). Here's how it looked prior to the firewall. Look at the "Rule hit distribution" panel. That near constant 200req/sec "asn" is almost entirely Alibaba. Much of the ~300req/sec "faked-browser" too, and I suspect that at least half of the "generated-url" wave with its ~800req/sec top are also Alibaba through residential proxies.

These crawlers are DDoSing the entire internet, and we have to come up with stupid defenses to keep ourselves online. By using any of these models, you're enabling them. Don't do that.

If you want to learn a new programming language, have its docs open, find small projects written in the language, find well documented libraries, packages, etc, and explore those. Far more accurate than any LLM, and you're not supporting the AI bubble and the relentless DDoS. You can even shove those resources into a personal search engine and query that. Hister is a decent option for that, for example.

No but in Spanish.

Friend you've posted this in the "fuck ai" community.

I usually avoid projects that have an Agents.md or similar. Tho tbf I think using it as an approximate search engine is one of the only reasonable use-cases of this tech (at least if you're using a local model)

Why is it worth it to risk hallucinations when you can just get information from where the LLM gets its information from?

Eh. Not great for various reasons I’m sure others will state in full.

I find AI consultation gets… stale after a while if that makes sense? Admittedly it did at least help me articulate my questions faster when I was having trouble finding my words in the initial phase of learning something but beyond that it felt lacking. Stagnant even.

Ultimately I felt I got more out of poking my head around in various places and talking to people. They’re harder to interface with at times sure but more helpful overall. I felt engaged and had better ideas after a human-to-human discussion.

Having transparency with AI usage sounds like a good idea though.

No, anyone who uses, or has even a single time used, AI deliberately (or accidentally) is stupid and a witch... with warts... and should be burned at the stake... Huzzah.