This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The latest trend with AI agents is giving people the power to build personal software to automate parts of their life, such as building pitch decks, organizing datasets, and other tasks.
I don't really have a lot of datasets to organise in my private life, a LibreCalc sheet is more than enough. I also don't use pitch decks when I talk to friends and family. Any other suggestions?
What an addoly written article. It reads like satire. I don't think it is. But it reads like it.
I feel like I got so little substantive information from reading that.
Normal people couldn't figure out the "mail merge" function of their 1980-era word processor, and haven't figured it out since.
Normal people don't use VS Code either... what's a silly article
I don't use a scalpel... so I guess scalpels are stupid and Surgeons are idiots?
"You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!"
“You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy!”
We are totally past that. Where is my hover car?
I don't use tech I can't trust, and AI did lie to me before.
I've lied to you too, but you still use me, Steven!
well if i could use ai the same way, maybe i would like it more
My favourite thing to do is to order a bowl of spaghetti in a restaurant, and then loudly take credit for making it because I instructed the chef to add more garlic. After all, the Chef is just a tool that I used to make that spaghetti.
Also, the chef stole the recipe and ingredients from somebody else.
I've started to call people AI-assisted
"Powered by Claude".
I do everything I possibly can to avoid that shit. Any app or service i use that trys to force it gets canceled and deleted.
Even before computers I didn't need, nor want, anyone's help. Especially if it was forced upon me. A human's independent spirit will always shun AI. Everyone else just wants you to pay a monthly "AI" subscription.
I've seldom been described as a normal person, but in my job, I have to get things right or there are problems for real people. So whatever tools I use have to be reproducible in their results, transparent in how they give their answers, and verifiable. So that precludes LLMs, which are automated bullshit firehoses with opaque, constantly mutable workings.
No reason you can't use LLMs to write deterministic scripts. Handing off every task to an agent is a crapshoot, but they do help with some tasks. At the minimum - writing regression tests.
I just had a thought. The people pushing for AI use get fined when the make huge mistakes, basically a speeding ticket. But they're pushing AI on people that get fired or go to jail if they make a huge mistake, more like A DUI. So they're saying "use this thing that makes the kind of mistakes that I'd fire you over, and take responsibility of it".
More or less what happened to my former project manager.
I use the AI agents to write software which is reproducible in its results, transparent in how it operates and verifiable...
Trust an LLM to switch on a light? No. Trust an LLM to write a diagnostic script and tell me what problems it notices in 3MB of log files, then write another script to patch the problem? Only if I actually understand the problem it finds and how the solution it creates is going to work.
They reduce some tasks that used to take weeks to a single day activity, they are NOT universally applicable.
What we want is software that behaves predictably. Since LLMs don't do that, we don't want them or their "agents."
For fuck's sake.
I used AI at work this week and it was so consistently incorrect that I dropped it
Not only do we not care about it, we actively hate it.
