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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I will try to have a balanced take here:

    The positives:

    • there are some uses for this “AI”
    • like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
    • it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
    • it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

    The negatives

    • the positives don’t justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
    • the positives don’t justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
    • shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
    • AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
    • other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can’t block because it’s in the text output of it.

    Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already