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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[-] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago

It works wonderfully well as a search engine, when I have to find obscure specialized info. Can always criss check once I have a idea.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Because companies destroyed actual search engines in the race for billions of dollars.

Kagi, searx are fricken awesome and much like the web in mid 2000s before corporations destroyed it.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its not a search engine, its a data digester. Dont use it as a search engine. Despite what alphabet, micro-shit, and DDG think, AI chatbots do not now, nor will they ever make good search engines.

This is a prime example of why access to these tools should be restricted to computer scientists and research labs. The average person doesn't know how to use them effectively (resulting in enormous power wasted by 'prompt engineering'), and the standard available models aren't good at digesting non-linguistic data.

I'm not gonna downvote you, or be like all "AI is the devil and its gonna kill us all" but people need to use it correctly or we ARE going to kill ourselves with its waste heat.

Edit: ficksed an werd

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 month ago

Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.

[-] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

This is a bad faith argument. Search engines are notoriously bad to find rare specialized information and usually return empty search results for too specific requests. Moreover you need the exact keywords while LLMs use embeddings to find similar meanings

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

No they didn't and they still don't really do that.

There are too many things (nowadays?) where you have to literally write a question on reddit, stack overflow or Lemmy or the likes and explain your situation in minute detail, because what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason.

Believe me, when I say that, because I always try search engines first, second and third, before even thinking of using some bs-spitting AI, but it really helped me with two very special problems in the last month.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Search engines haven't worked reliably for several years now, the top results for almost any search are from social media pages that you can't even read without an account. The Internet is broken.

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, most of that is on purpose. They fucked the search engines.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago

Well it's going to put a damper on my Ansible "coding".

You think I want to properly learn that piece of junk? It was obsolete and archaic before it was released, and it survives on naivete and churn cost and nothing else. There is no part of my time doing yaml for Ansible that I want to actually retain or build on, and without chatGPT to slop-in the changes I need to make, I may be forced to do it myself. And I lack the crayons now and alcohol for after.

Actually subjecting my brain to Ansible directly in real-time is a horror. It is just so fucking lame compared to everything else -- it even pales compared to the DevOps we were doing in 2002 before it was even called that. Let my have my robots to slop the Ansible and save my sanity !

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You were a liability

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago

Ok, yaml is fair game for a LLM. Whitespace sensitive language should die in a fire, markup or otherwise.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I agree. I think ansible is great in principle, but the documentation is severely lacking. Like it'll tell you to set a value, but not whether it's supposed to be in yaml, environment, or something else. And if it's in yaml, it doesn't tell you the required context to make it valid. But when someone has taken all the documentation, all the tutorials, the articles, the example code, working code, and stack overflow answers and put them all into a blender, often a useful answer comes out.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 0 points 1 month ago
[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because whitespace sensitivity makes it very easy to make a whole bunch of annoying mistakes when shuffling code around, or copying it from one source to another (from text in one application to the editor in your ide for example). I find it supremely unpleasant to work with. Looking kinda a little bit slightly messed up should not be a critical syntax error that breaks the whole code.

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago

seriously! i used to use chatgpt all the damn time but then i got into claude and gemini. they are WAY better for code. now i got cursor pro and i use that for all my shit because it's got the AI agents, the browser, the code editor, and the terminal

[-] pumpkin_spice@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago
[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

most developers don't know how to use AI. you don't know to use AI. no one here does. I do.

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

you don’t know to use AI. no one here does. I do.

That's hilarious. Everyone thinks they're some kind of savant while using LLMs. The reality is quite different

AI is a useful tool, but people who misuse it, primarily due to overreliance, end up creating more work than AI is solving

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

You're just projecting your own failures with AI onto me. It is really sad that you are not good at talking to a computer in English

[-] SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I'm not even into tech whatsoever, and find you insufferable.

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

i've reviewed your comment history. you're not a human. you're not even a gpt 3.5 instance. i'm not sure what you are but you're ancient

[-] oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Account age 19 hours and already behaving like an ass. Congratulations and welcome to Lemmy, a place with actual communities where you can expect to be blocked if you carry on like that. Please learn to treat people better!

[-] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

how's that LLM-induced psychosis going?

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

i just got out of a manic episode. i was nuts and i said some very mean things to my family, but we're backl to being on good terms now.

it wasn't caused my LLMs it was caused by drugs (delta 8 THC, alcohol relapse (i'm a recovering alcoholic, used to drink 12-18 every night) also 7OH and adderall and ummmmmm

I think that's it. Look, being bipolar makes you love drugs. But I'm sober now

[-] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh I get that, being AuDHD I got issues with different kinds of addiction, right now I just eat a lot and smoke a lot of weed.

Hope you finish recovering soon but I'm gonna be honest with you, drugs are not the only thing you can be addicted to and delegating research/tasks to a LLM can be addicting

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

right now i'm addicted to fucking my computer

i mean

i'm addicted to my fucking computer

i'm still a recovering substance addict. basically alcohol and pot, but i also mixed in some other shit like addies and 7OH from time to time. i feel comfortable talking about all that shit because i'm sober now

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

What's it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

i don't work in the field. it's a hobby. i'm a speech language pathologist. i have degrees from northestern university and UT austin

are you some kid in your parent's basement?

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Welcome to Lemmy, where everything is wrongthink.

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

pretty much yeah, lmao.....STILL, i will do my best to be nice to everyone here, despite our many differences, because i'm so fucking sick of getting banned from everywhere. i racked up so many minor reddit infractions that i can't even make a new account now. it is seriously the internet equivalent of getting a life sentence for three speeding tickets. fucking three strikes rule is so fucking stupid

[-] Ifera@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Bright side of Lemmy, you can say fuck. Downsides include, death of nuance, dogpiling, herd behavior and people who try to take down others.

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

i will do my best to be nice to everyone here

If this your best, I can see why you're banned on Reddit. This is the one time where their algorithms are right.

You're a toxic person and are completely oblivious to it.

You need to go move into mommy's basement until you've learned how to play nice with others.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

why did you say use it to do coding, when you are not a programmer but a speech pathlogist, you seemed pretty deficient in that area if i might add if you are wholely dependent on chat gpt

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

what's your native language?

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

What's it like being an amateur that is so clueless you actually think you have any capacity to analyze what is good, better, best for coding?

[-] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

what's it like being a gpt 3.5 instance run out of a server in mumbai

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