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Wanderer atop the sea of clouds or whatever

Wanderer atop the sea of clouds or whatever

@WandererUber@poa.st remote
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keep coming back to this take
"Software is the worst performing sector this year so far"

A lot of SaaS companies 5x ed (or more) their revenue yet their stock fell or stalled. This is all because of AI. That's the word on the street. CEOs all say this. And the AI haters revel in it when they land on their face after putting it into practice: Salesforce rehiring people it fired because of AI, Microsoft completely annihilating what was left of Windows, et cetera

It follows then, that if you think AI is not the golden goose everyone promises it is, then it can actually NOT replace all the SaaS software. Or if it can replace SaaS programmers, it can at best replace them at SaaS companies that still have technical people maintaining the product.

So if you are anti-AI and you are not buying SaaS stock, you're just a liar.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/c993830f-b600-4227-a513-8d5c1064d229
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BionicNigga

BionicNigga

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@WandererUber I don’t have a lot of experience with AI because I just don’t trust any of the companies and local models are mostly worthless, but where I have found it useful for coding is just asking it to explain to me in more detail what a given function does or why something didn’t work etc, so that way I can fail faster while writing all the actual code myself so it sticks. Basically it’s a tutor off which I can bounce questions and ideas while I’m still doing all the work.

Have you observed any benefit in your experience to giving AI a more active role than that, or is it as much a waste of time as trying to get image generators to do anything specific? It is nice for writing one-time use scripts with unfamiliar apps, sure it screws up half the time but then you just keep a backup of your data and reroll until somehow it Just Werks™️.

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Wanderer atop the sea of clouds or whatever

Wanderer atop the sea of clouds or whatever

@WandererUber@poa.st remote
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@BionicNigga I like AI and see its potential for a lot of tasks, including image and video gen. I think the problem I was getting at is downstream of the marketing going into entirely the wrong direction. AI in the hands of a good artists is 1 more desirable and 2 way nore powerful than just giving it to a clueless normie. Look at psychicpebbles etc and what they do with Suno. That's actually how to use it. not make a normie shit out a passable song.

>Have you AI a more active role than thatrience to giving AI a more active role than that
yes. I use it as a tutor, as a quick summary, and as basically a very patient that I can ask probing questions (That way I can see if claim X is just something everyone velieves but it's total nonsense or if there is an actual obvious answer that I'm just missing)
and I make it wrote code prototypes in languages I am unfamiliar with, to get off the ground. Studies are potentially suggesting that's slower than diying but sometimes you just want the thing and don't care about learning some retarded niggercoal scripting language. Sp it's still good because it saves headache.
more active coding is still difficult but I am also not very good at maintaining large pieces of software so that could be a skill issue.