I can't speak to your experience but I've been farting around on the Internet since the mid 90s and I promise nothing ever changes.
Smaller communities tend to be more concise, that is true.
But what you have here is the hand you're dealt. Complaining isn't going to change anything any more thank joking. You can be the change you seek here by suggesting a course of action that isn't asking others to suggest a course of action to you. If you're seeking a course of action, you can try asking here.
But commenters on tech news aren't likely to be expert activists, especially in whatever issue is your top concern.
My best advice to you is
practice acceptance of reality, not as defeat but as the first step to understanding and deciding an action
determine how much capacity you, as a person, have to contribute to a cause
determine one cause you care about and can be effective at contributing to
After doing those things, SEEK OUT like minded groups who have leadership and self discipline and are effective.
If you don't want to network in person locally, you will need to find a forum whose sole purpose is activism and direct action.
It will not be brought to you, and you will not be recruited. You have to actively go seek it out.
The forum you're on now is called "technology". Similar ones, like "news" or literally any other topic that doesn't solely focus on mobilizing activists will not get you what you're asking for here.
I appreciate your position. I don't think you're going to start a cultural revolution on any comment section. If you're looking for a place to make real change, you need to network with local communities.
The the best you'll get for "town square" value from internet forums is the expression of sentiment. People are angry, like you are, and they are using humor to literally reframe the narrative to point out the state's fallacy.
Ya a lot of folks make a lot of poor choices. I'm sure I do too.
I like to take note of any way I could have done something better in a ride, even if it's just something simple like getting passed by a car before I knew it was there -- a mild reminder to always be checking the 360.
I agree, LLMs have been helpful in pointing me in the right direction and helping me rethink what questions I actually want to ask in disciplines I'm not very familiar with.
In my mind, I think it starts with one rogue fleck or dribble, causing the next person to avoid and hover slightly, which produces lower accuracy yet, causing the next person to hover even further, which keeps compounding until you eventually get the shitter who actually purchased and ate one of the rotating bubbling skin hot dogs at a previous gas station, and then you get what you're seeing here.
Agree, and the point I always want to make is that any LLM or neural net or any other AI tech is going to be a mere component in a powerful product, rather than the entirety of the product.
The way I think of it is that my brain is of little value without my body, and my person is of little value without my team at work. I don't exist in a vacuum but I can be highly productive within my environment.
From a business perspective, no shareholder cares at how good an employee is at personally achieving a high degree of skill. They only care about selling and earning, and to a lesser degree an enduring reputation for longer term earnings.
Economics could very well drive this forward. But I don't think the craft will be lost. People will need to supervise this progress as well as collaborate with the machines to extend its capabilities and dictate its purposes.
I couldn't tell you if we're talking on a time scale of months or decades, but I do think "we" will get there.
I'm my experience they do a decent job of whipping out mindless minutea and things that are well known patterns in very popular languages.
They do not solve problems.
I think for an "AI" product to be truly useful at writing code it would need to incorporate the LLM as a mere component, with something facilitating checks through static analysis and maybe some other technologies, maybe even mulling the result through a loop over the components until they're all satisfied before finally delivering it to the user as a proposal.
All I need is Bluetooth in the audio system and a place to hang my phone. Beyond that, things that don't make my car move or my body comfortable can go to hell.
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