> Doesn't help that no one talks about exactly what they are doing and exactly how they are doing it
Let me try a translation:
> I am using $model for writing software and its great.
I have generated an extremely simple javascript application that could have been mostly done by copy/paste from StackOverflow or even Geeks4Geeks and it runs.
This is true. I have a PWA that I generated with a LLM on my phone right now. It works. Pretty sure even w3schools would be ashamed to post that code.
> I am using $model for writing software and it sucks and will never do it.
This is also true. At work I have a 15 year old codebase where everything is custom.
You can't get a LLM to use it all as a context because you simply don't have ram for it so you can't even test the quality of advice given on it.
You can't train a LLM on it because you don't have the budget for it.
You maybe could get a LLM to generate code by prompting it "this is the custom object allocation function, these are the basic GUI classes, now generate me the boilerplate for this new dialog I'm supposed to do". Unfortunately it takes as long or longer than doing it yourself, and you can't trust the output to boot.
Yes, I'm in the second group and I have that conviction about the first group based on personal experience with LLMs.
But most hype is not delusion. It's people trying to present themselves as "AI" experts in order to land those well paid "AI" positions. I don't think they even believe what they're saying.
Did you post them with commentary along the lines of "this is the second coming of $DEITY, AI will replace us all, click on this Claude referral link to sign up"?
No, don't think so.
However, 90% of "AI" articles either are full of bullshit about "AI" or are someone trying to pass as an "expert" in some domains with LLM generated bullshit.
To be more exact, the fact that everyone sells access to models they are continually "improving" is proof that any statement from the LLM peddlers about AGI is a lie.
> “I used AI to make a super profitable stock trading bot” —-> using fake money with historical data
Stocks are another matter. There were wonder "algorithms" even before "AI". I helped some friends tweak some. They had the enthusiasm and I had the programming expertise and I was curious.
That was a couple years ago. None of them is rich and retired now - which was what the test runs were showing - and I think most aren't even trading any more.
Yes. The Hailo chips are mainly for AI vision models. This is the first time I have seen them pushed for LLM. They are very finicky and difficult to setup outside of the examples. Documentation is inconsistent and the models have to be converted to a different format to run. It is possible to run a custom yolo8 model, but is challenging.
My day just started but I found out that when I type a message in a MS Teams chat open in Chrome in Mac OS there are three separate independent spell checkers fighting to twist my meaning.
I too am actively fighting the Teams spellcheck and autocorrect garbage. I can't seem to turn it off permanently, every time I log in again it switches itself on again. It refuses to understand that I speak multiple languages, and that no, I do not ever want this shitty tool to change words as I'm typing.
Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess?
> Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess?
Not sure if Apple is better in this respect, with the "helpers" at least.
For MS, this job only switched to MS from Google less than a month ago but I could whine about new annoyances for 4-5 more paragraphs. And before using it, I thought Google is too enterprise oriented and getting in the way of getting work done. Compared to Slack. But not compared to MS.
> Not sure if Apple is better in this respect, with the "helpers" at least.
Since I posted that, I got a popup trying to trick me into upgrading to Mac OS 26 again. I thought I had the workaround to get rid of the idiotic popups applied, had to apply it again.
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