The people who didn't bother trying to learn how to use all the advancements in AI in the last 3 years are gonna be really seriously screwed in the next few.
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I feel like if I take I nap I fall a week behind
I think that's the trap that we can fall into if we try to keep up with everything. I tend to live life at a slower pace and prefer that. I use AI tools at my own pace and how I see fit. I still like to understand what I'm doing and augment that with AI sometimes. But I won't become a slave to it. I refuse. If that means falling behind, so be it. There's more to my life than running like a fucking rat to keep up with every bit of the latest thing. Interestingly, when I do use AI, it tends to be in a way that frees me up to do things I actually want to do. Frankly, that isn't spending my evening reading a medical journal. Give me the summary so I can spend most of my free time with my wife, family, and friends.
mind you, i do this all for fun, mostly and i live in AI mecca, so its not like i can avoid it when i even go to get a coffee somebody is talking about it. 😂
its has indeed been a very long parabolic cycle.
I thought we were about done in 2025 but it hasn't slowed.
If the dot com era and the bitcoin parabolic eras felt like insanity
this parabolic AI cycle feels a LOT longer and is transforming a lot more
Nope. Only those that try to compete in the domains that AI will grind to dust (most intellectual work).
AI can't be a good father, mother, son, daughter, sister, or brother. It cannot make the world a better place of its own volition, since it has no will.
It will be eventually wielded to subjugate even more people in a prison of the mind.
Sure, you won't probably fall into that trap, but I might, so I will avoid it and focus on things that only I can do in the here and now, as that is what I was created to do.
I feel this to a degree. It's something I've thought a lot on. "Keeping up" can quickly become slavery.
Yup. And this is the point where I say, "no thanks."
On the parent bit, that's true, but it may be able to indirectly help people be a better father or mother if used intentionally. Something to think about. We all have to think about this and decide for ourselves. I don't have all the answers certainly. And I'll probably experiment to figure out what works.
as someone who has struggled to stop people from asking the most mundane obnoxious tech questions, I can now point them at the AI. Also, I'm having the time time of my life. it feels like driving a ferrari to build things i've wanted to build but didn't because it always took too much time, 3 weeks now can be done in 1.5 hrs. That means more fun play time with family and friends.
Until you're locked in and then they start pricing you out like an addict.
Because that's what is going to be happening soon since the infinite money circle jerk is going to crash in the not so distant future.
Enjoy it while you can, for sure.
I'll plod along. I'm good at that.
there's this thing called "running your own open source Ai models on your own hardware"
costs more than a decent used car, to run a useless LLM rn, that maxes out a standard household circuit.
so I guess we will need more circuit
And then there are the people who cry about requiring h100s to run good LLMs locally. And then you look at what they’re doing, and see fp32 model files.
what's the cost of used car anyway?
my take is that the free models get better and the gap closes within the next 12 months so that its doable
I don't pay more than 5k.
GPU and RAM can easily get eaten up with that.
Tried that for a bit before.
Utterly terrible on less than top-tier hardware, which I have neither the budget or desire to acquire.
I'm not going to be locked into a system of perpetual FOMO.
I'm not missing out. Besides, I'm dead weight when it comes to this sort of stuff. Useful for ballast and that's about it.
Things that might change my opinion: Open-source models that I can train on my own dataset. (Which would be mostly books I've read that aren't trash.) Effective enough models for simple, local useful things like voice recognition to be able to be lazy about home automation stuff.
Basically, no black box stuff. No crazy hardware needed to carry on a better than 1960s robot level tasks (actually difficult).
also I am no longer a free answering machine. this feels good.
Bookmarked for later viewing. Thanks.
At least some. I struggle to keep up with all of the advancements, but I've been encouraging people to get comfortable with at least some of the tools. For example, I used AI as a research assistant for my undergrad. I use it now to summarize large amounts of information, particularly related to my healthcare work. I've even been using it for my developing work as an amateur automotive mechanic. I think the biggest lesson for me has been how easy it's gotten to integrate AI into pretty much any career. It's getting in my way a lot less than prior years and actually saves me time and helps me learn quicker. But I don't just hand it the wheel either. It's always played an assistant role for me. On the flip, I think many people will get into trouble by being totally useless without it. I think a good mix is proper.
What's this devops ai agent I was told you built
i didn't but you can use this super cool devops ai agent to deploy a nostr relay in 1 prompt. 10 nontech plebs have done it.
