As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career

Grok, please turn off all ai.

This is how you kickstart Skynet

When do you think we will see people doing Lent but with AI instead of food.

As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!

The global economy is probably already dependent on some Claude code instance updating an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop with a note ”don’t close the lid!” attached to it

This implies that the brains worked before.
Looking at the world, this is quite a bold assumption, I would say ...

But then what would y'all complain about?

Here's the funny thing .. they never worked to begin with!

After a week:

We should turn off AI for a week to see if people notice.

It is completely useless for the vast majority of users. By vast, I mean almost everyone.

Oh god, the brainrot's got to you, too! You don't even remember what people complained about 3 years ago!

I wouldn't mind seeing how bad the withdrawal is.

I cannot stress enough how correct this is. It feels like it'd be similar to early Covid lockdown. People with real jobs that contribute to things are still working while everyone else with the cushy meaningless jobs are sent home to do nothing where they complain and make things harder for the people actually doing things.

This is why it's important to distinguish between LLMs and AI. Turn off all LLMs and life will go on. Turn off all AI and you lose everything from automated supply chain management to room ACs.

We call it digital detox

Politics, bigotry, transphobes, homophoves and right extremism on the rise. Those sorts of things.

Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)

Millennials, particularly the younger millennials especially, grew up right in the sweet spot to be at a tech advantage. At least as far as the average person goes. Obviously anyone passionate about tech will be far ahead of the average person, regardless of age

I literally quit my job to join them because I couldn't take it anymore and was met with an insane amount of harassment. Apparently I had be lucky to be considered essential.

I agree. I am more than happy to pass the torch when the time comes. I certainly don’t want to work forever, but I also want to be able to train competent replacements at some point.

I hope the withdrawal symptoms are gonna be on par with alcohol withdrawal.

Jup, it's as if everyone magically forgot about pre-deep-learning AIs the moment Microsoft and OpenAI appropriated the word AI to mean LLM++.

Turn off ALL AI and you'll have windmills and power plants go rogue, ships will loose navigation and stabilization, planes falling down from the skies, and most important: the NPCs in your video games will only be able to react with the most simple interactions - terrible, truly!

AI is such a broad term is to essentially be meaningless. My thermostat does not use AI it uses a very simple algorithm.

We have a OCR system at work that runs on a Windows XP computer, people used to call that AI until about 10 years ago.

When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn't have drivers to support USB and we couldn't upgrade the computers because the software wouldn't work on any other hardware.

So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.

Politics, same as we do now, everyone complained about politics.

Wholeheartedly agree. This is from 2013, and I feel it's only gotten worse since then.

LLMs are just a more complicated algorithm though. AI would be a pretty useful term so long as people are sure to make that distinction and only use AI to refer to a truly complex algorithm. Calling a thermostat algorithm on an A/C “AI” is definitely a meaningless use of the term

Fuckin homophoves, man

If it's deterministic, I don't see it as AI.

So far, so good.

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The older gen z too I would say

That would also mean that a lot of "AI" in games wouldn't actually be worthy of the name. Which actually I agree with.

I know my work already has reports built by running data through Claude and having it spit out an xls. Though, it's not quite as integral as the all-important closet laptop.

And how their favorite game/movie/linux distro was being u fairly maligned by a competing game/movie/windows studio.

Reminds me of some stupid company maybe a few months ago that had their PRs failing due to copilot being down the dumbasses didn't build an "if no AI" failsafe into their workflow. And no one knew how to recover it

Is there even any AI anywhere? I 've never seen any. No company has any AI to offer. Am I missing something? I know only LLM, ANN, ML, DL and so on...

I'm so sick of the propagandized term. Its not ai.

That’s a good comparison, because it illustrates very well why LLMs are so (seemingly) successful. If this useful technology were used primarily by the people who actually worked during COVID, there wouldn’t be a problem, because these people are very good at assessing what’s possible and what isn’t - since they actually understand their work. The problem - and the absurd hype - arises simply because LLMs reinforce the completely absurd ideas of incompetent people - and these are the ones who had nothing to do during the pandemic, since they do nothing but schedule pointless meetings and waste the time of those who are actually doing something meaningful.

Have they for the past couple of decades?

Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.

Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is...

Sure these systems are "obsolete" but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I'm not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I'm even saying this.

"Hi Dave, great idea, I'll turn the heaters on bust, we'll be nice and toasty in here soon 🥰☕"

No I said turn on the AC, it's already a furnace in here

"Oh sorry, my bad! I'll turn off the fridge right away!"

Distressed fridge makes upset beeping noses from kitchen

Not sure who needs to hear this but... the average person isn't using AI for anything important, nor likely anything that really involves much thinking. Heck they aren't even choosing to use it, they are just doing a google search. Some of us use it for work. But for that case, I refer back to my first sentence.

I write well enough for the e-mails I'm required to send, I don't code, I have no use/desire to generate "art," and I don't like search results I have to double check so I've been blessed (cursed?) to not have to use "AI" in my daily life.

Hey Siri, when is the AI turning ba-GOD DAMMIT

Until the crutch became available.

It's "behavior" now.

it uses a very simple algorithm.

That is AI too. If a machine can make a decision based on some input, it is AI. A (functional) if statement in a programme makes it AI.

Centralized social media!

If we shutdown AI there'd also be a massive hiring spree and wages would probably tick up a bit to compensate. AI is just the latest scam to suppress workers and wages. They want perpetual suffering for us and infinite gains for themselves.

My job is making everyone use AI for everything (while also not keeping staff levels up)

I hate it. Even when it works I kind of hate it.

I've been using it as a search supplement for like "how do I make a uuid in a GitHub action and use it in future steps" stuff. Sometimes it works. I'd kind of rather have well written docs.

That’s dumb. The “work” in maintaining this excel file was the prompting and overall agent logic. In reality you’d be using something like openrouter and the instant claude “dies” for whatever reason you swap to whatever the freshest AI is. This never becomes ancient, it keeps up with the times.