I'm Sick of AI Everything

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring.There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply.Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting. I am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc…I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on. I find comments like yours very strange.> do the hard things for youThe only people advocating for that are the same kind of people which were pitching the cloud as a solution for your hosting needs.Ime the sweet spot for development with LLMs is to figure out what you need to do and then do that through AI. Yes, it'll still make some decisions there, but did you really get satisfaction from the decisions of eg what to call a class before? At last I didn't.You can of course try to offload everything to the LLM and not tell it what to do, but only specify what it should enable (spec driven), but at that point youre gambling wherever the output will work and the project becomes unmaintainable - which may be fine too in certain scenarios, that's just pretty rare in a business context "But just need to know how to prompt AI properly to..,"- Write a new top 40 song no talent required- Write a business email, a school paper, etc & no talent required- Design a logo, a website, an app, a billboard, etc and no talent required.AI is the best thing to happen to humanity as it mimics & steals humanity for a few pie holes and us the majority does nothing to stop it! That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.

New role unlocked: starving artist!Your parents could afford a house, have kids etc etc at a far younger age but now you are single with no kids and choosing food or rent or power. You spin the wheel! Lucky! You get to eat.Progress! I think in a certain way your reply has underlined exactly why this AI frenzy has made things so uninteresting. Just maybe not the way you intended. I'm looking at engineering job specs at the moment and it's very wearisome that every company seems to have pivoted from highlighting the unique value they provide to customers to putting AI front and centre in their employer branding. My eyes immediately glaze over at what may have been the result of "Claude, take this HR/marketing/whatever copy and inject some AI".I've adopted the tools because they're useful, but businesses need to chill. AI seems to amplify existing bottlenecks within organisations, so we should probably tread carefully when it comes to pushing the tech. Fix the organisational problems first and hedge our bets.I wonder if anyone reading this was around during the dot-com bubble because maybe it felt the same... Yes, I was around then. It felt exactly the same. That’s how you know it’s a bubble. Because everyone starts acting stupid and conjuring up all these ridiculous explanations for why it makes sense when it plainly doesn’t. In 1999, everything was about the Internet, even when it didn’t make sense. Every company was saying that to be left out of the “Internet revolution” was a fast path to bankruptcy. It’s the same with AI today. Yes, the Internet was important and some companies did get displaced, but most didn’t. So too for AI. I was around during the dot-com bubble. When it popped it popped pretty quickly. It wasn't a slow leak. Everything needed to be a dot-com and everything was centered around being a dot-com no matter what the business actually did. Money was pouring and almost anything dot-com was getting funding.I moved to a dot-com right at the tail end of it. We built a pretty decent startup from scratch within the first two months and debuted at one of the largest trade shows in the world. We had our own private label factoring credit card and we did credit card transactions over the internet and with handheld cellular devices. It was built to scale, colocated, and we were getting customers.

When the floor dropped out it was done in less than two months. dot-com was a very negative thing for a while after that. I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though. very exciting time in crypto with NIST finally standardizing a bunch of pq stuff! (that's what we're going to be talking about, right???) What's especially frustrating is that the posts about AI are also disproportionately written by AI. I can sort of understand that people who are very enthusiastic about LLMs also use them for blogging. But the most bizarre part is that a lot of anti-AI opinion pieces are LLM-generated too. Either cynical click-sploitation or extreme hypocrisy. It does feel like a marketing failure. If everyone makes the same claim, it's not differentiating.I remember being frustrated at every company claiming to be "innovative" in a past job search. I think this is just social media content right? Just don't consume it?Personally I find AI great and where I can , everything is AI enhanced- Coding / Software dev (obvious one)- Health ... been super useful as I recently had a thyroidectomy, it's given me a lot of information the drs didn't and also spotted a mistake my dr made in post surgery symptoms. I maintain my own set of .md files documenting all medical things now.- Shopping. Super useful though still has a way to go, but relative to google I tend to use the AI results more often.- Random problems... Insanely useful!- Fact Checking, pretty good for the most. But you have to fact check your fact checking.- Market Research, surprisingly good- Philosophy, really good and usefulSo basically anything. I noticed recently that there are new "AI Widget" and "Chat Widget" EasyList filters in the uBlock Origin Annoyances filter lists. I'm not sure when they were added but they weren't checked by default for me. They definitely help clear some of the clutter. Install Chrome update. Network usage goes off the charts. Close Chrome it goes away. Check task manager. No processes claim the downloads.

Use firefox to search around for why.Apparently "on-device AI models" are a thing. And are downloaded separately after the install of Chrome.Deeply frustrating on a mobile connection. I just wish it did what it said on the tin. Seriously, separating the hype from the reality is so time consuming. AI has helped me rediscover my love of coding. It helps me write my emails for me, puts together my shopping list, and gives me advice on how to structure my day. AI tells me what to do. I don't have to fear my choices anymore, because AI makes the choices for me. When Claude had an outage I forgot how to walk up stairs and couldn’t look it up so I waited for someone to come and get me You can use AI, tell AI to read the page first and if it's AI anything to block it. Vibecode an extension. I block YouTube channels if I see they use AI slop as their thumbnail image and certainly if they use AI voices once the video starts playing. (This is only feasible because I already select from a highly curated subset of YouTube that generally doesn't use AI.) One problem is that when people delegate tasks to AI, they don't themselves learn anything from doing the task -- not just in the general sense of personal improvement, but in the very concrete sense of "what is it that was produced".Before AI, when someone showed you a presentation or an Excel sheet, even if it was complete horseshit that they had made up, they knew what was in it: they knew more about it than you, by definition.Now, not so much; people output things they know nothing about, and when they show it to you they are discovering it just as you are.This is novel, and discomforting. I have a tech support buddy who, while good, allows himself more arrogance than his skills deserve. I asked him what CRC errors, and he said to ask AI, kindly providing me its output:> CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors on Wi-Fi indicate that data frames were corrupted during transmission, often caused by high electromagnetic interference (EMI), physical layer issues, or faulty hardware. They cause packet loss, slow speeds, and intermittent connectivity. Common solutions include replacing cables, reducing interference, updating drivers, and adjusting radio powerThis is all well and good except: read the prompt carefully.

It never actually says what CRC errors are. This is the average AI user: literally work on, build, and fix things without the slightest clue about what it is you're actually working on.He makes >6 figures lol Yes, the "desirable difficulties" are gone in many areasHonestly, quite a tragedy for many. Myself, I have to be constantly fighting against this to slow myself down I took compliance training today and the "actors" and voices were AI.After watching the GPT images release video, it reenforced my skepticism that society will adapt. Then I thought about AI analysis of people's movements in public and realized that governments already capture everything, and now will be able to use infinite AI surveillance agents to watch all things all the time.Any disobedience or crime (but really only against the government and gentry) can be instantly investigated by asking AI to analyze the behavior of all people and vehicles in the days prior to and after the incident. That's if they can't identify you immediately at the time of the crime.When the time comes that civilian disorder is required to change the behavior of government, it will be impossible.AI is the destruction of individual freedom. It is the destruction of citizens' ability to rebel against power.We would be far better off without it. If you can afford it hire a virtual assistant and have them filter things for you and curate stuff. If you are suffering through things to find glimpses of enjoyment it is best you outsource your suffering to someone dedicated. Seriously, I had a $5 dollar an hour assistant who did all sorts random stuff for me. This even included curating things to read, talking to professional acquaintances on behalf of me using a script. It will cost you around 200-300 dollar a month but with the right person you can skip the BS. I think this is a problem unique to facebook / meta. I mean the camera roll has a dedicated "ai images" at the top instead of... your active camera like every other app.This all started with zucks obsession with virtual avatars and you can really see this in VR. I'm working with AI since early 00's and it was a lot of fan of this with very little community of an artificial neural networks developers.