[–] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

It doesn't need nearly as many. AI inference is orders of magnitude more expensive than a single search query (ignoring the fact that Google does it's own inference with search queries now). And that doesn't even include training, which is stupidly expensive to do.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago

    I'm a senior engineer of 10+ years. I do not, nor will I ever, use AI to write code. Fuck that shit. It makes everything worse in countless ways. So much garbage I have to deal with at work now because of it, and it absolutely has made no difference in velocity. I take that back actually, it's slowed things down because now there's a lot more "what the fuck is this shit" reviews I have to do now, which just slows everything down. Like just the other day where someone on my team submitted a MR where the AI wrote a pre-commit hook that ran a script to parse the source code of our entire monorepo to scan for occurrences of a few functions to make sure they weren't used.

    I have to deal with so many "ideas" now that no sane person would ever come up with, because they are fucking stupid.

    Oh, and I can't tell you how many times I've had to tell people to remove absolutely useless tests from MRs. It's almost a joke at this point.

    The good news it's already starting to get way too expensive to keep on like this and management is finally starting to feel the pain, so I doubt it really has much legs left. It always comes down to money, in the end, and this shit isn't cheap and will only continue to skyrocket in price as the wildly unprofitable AI companies run out of money and need to start showing profitability.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It's actually really, really good. I tried it recently. It's very reminiscent of Thai dishes to me that use peanuts, weirdly enough.

    I put peanut butter on both sides and pickles in the middle. Works best with spicy pickles, IMO.

    It's a tasty sweet and savory sandwich.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Except unlike smartphones that are so ubiquitous and essential for life today, using chatbots is entirely elective and unnecessary.

    Meat is an important source of essential nutrition and eschewing it is a luxury to many people in the world. Online shopping, in this day and age, is very frequently the only way to acquire certain goods we need. It is practically impossible to stay informed as to the state of the world without reading news from corporate sources.

    There is nothing essential or unavoidable about ChatGPT. On the contrary, they and their audience would be much better served by not using it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    What, praytell, is this supposed syntax? A curl invocation? Including a link to a CDN resource in an HTML <script> tag?

    A URL on the web is not what anyone would call a framework, I'm sorry to say. Is www.google.com a framework? Google programmed the server serving the content at that URL, right? Or what, is it only special URLs that only programmers use? Is your operating system a "framework"? Someone programmed that too, right? How about your coffee maker? That's also something someone programmed.

    It's funny how the wikipedia article on CDNs doesn't mention the word "framework" once, yet the article on a real framework like React mentions the word 8 times and links to other frameworks and lists of frameworks.

    Maybe, just maybe, it has a more narrow definition than "someone programmed it so you don't have to".

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    As someone that grew up in a Christian household and wasn't allowed to listen to non-Christian music, I listened to a LOT of Skillet as a teenager. It was one of the few bands I could listen to that I actually liked. I also liked DC Talk as a kid.

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