Wow. Wird euch das erfolgreich untergejubelt? Weil an mir geht es irgendwie voll vorbei, ich hör den ganzen Tag nur Mr. Hurley und die Pulveraffen. Und da ist nix mit KI dabei.

Und? Wie hat OP denn die Kartons gefaltet? Ich will ein Fotobeweis, also die Chancen sind eher gering bei der Beschreibung der Nachbarin. Aber villeicht isser ja doch das Arsch?!

Tja. Ich hör ständig Autokorsos hupen und weiß nie ob jemand geheiratet hat oder Fußball ist. Wobei nach der Uhrzeit zu urteilen würde ich sagen das meiste waren Hochzeiten. Fußball war ja anscheinend immer spät nachts. Und es scheint die Kinder genießen die Sommerferien. Die waren 5minuten nachdem es Zeugnisse gab alle draußen unterwegs. Und am Wochenende hab ich Horden von Jugendlichen in Bus und Bahn getroffen.

Yeah, best option probably to bring it up in some way without admitting to it. Though, I can’t come up with a good way unless there is some other indicators. Alternatively: There’s always the truth. Might go badly. But if the alternative is even worse, you might want to consider just telling it how it is. Say you betrayed her and read the diary and now you’re concerned.

Interesting. I wouldn’t have expected commercial AI assistants to compute a lot of stuff on device. For speed / response time reasons, and battery drain. Other than maybe speech recognition… Guess I’m not up to date anymore. I haven’t tried Gemini. Most fancy stuff I use is speech recognition and Google Lens, respectively “Offline Translator” to translate Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing on products in the Asia supermarket. That app is perfectly alright with just the 6GB on my phone. But yeah, generative AI in form of a large language model or an image generator won’t fit. I’ve tried a few other open-source local AI apps and it can’t do any of the usable AI models.

Sure. I’ve heard a lot of praising words towards Cachy OS. Tumbleweed might be your thing if you’re looking for an easy rolling release distro… I didn’t mention any specific ones since we all use computers differently, we all have different use-cases, levels of expertise… And I also don’t just use one distro. I have a different one on the server than on my laptop, I use yet a different one for retro gaming… There’s just so much out there and depending on what exactly you do, could be any of a dozen or so different options and they’re all good (or there’s reasons to pick or not pick them…)

I think Ubuntu is a popular distro. Not necessarily leading in any way. There’s other popular distros out there, distros with good documentation, simple to use or beginner friendly, distros which are fast or have a lot of software available. And I’m -personally- not a huge fan of Canonical’s business decisions and what they’re trying to push on a given day… So I pick different Linux distros. YMMV.

Considering people with alzheimers or dementia can forget to eat and drink an they’ll just die, I’d say it’s a real possibility. Though… Considering how messed up hardcore alcoholics look, I’d also say there’s a good chance they’ll die of organ failure before they’re hit with dementia.

“Yes” is the obviously correct answer.

Though I kind of invite everyone to watch the dark dystopian sci-fi movies from a few decades ago. It’s almost always some nasty private company.

And downside of them is: They have not been elected by the people. There’s also no separation of powers, accountability etc. And we have that to some degree in somewhat working democracies. Even the half broken (as of today)'s democracies come with more accountability and checks than any private company. And we got companies who are richer and more influential than several smaller countries. So there’s that as well.

But they’re both very scary.

You mean he has some “Claudia” like Richard Dawkins?

I’d like a template as well unless we want to freestyle it. And place it somewhere without strict CORS headers.

Guess I’m making some sort of distinction between “the industry” and what kind of music I listen to… I’d agree. In the realm of commercial music, if the point of your band is to sell a lot of music… you’d probably use all the tools available. And it’s definitely a thing. Most modern pop artists on the radio have some other people write the music for them or at least the harmonics and general layout. Designed to appease and have some well tested standard chord progressions. They almost always do autotune. And it’s some self-reinforcing feedback cycle with the audience. We also have music genres which rely on (audible) autotune as some stylistic element. I more or less don’t consider it art anyway. There’s a select few songs of that kind I consider original and nice. Other than that it’s some mass-produced homogenous mainstream shit. So I just don’t know if I consider it a loss once it’s designed or sung by AI… It might happen, though.

All I can say is, the last music festival I attended had a vast majority of bands with more genuine music. A minimum of autotune, the audience generally doesn’t want playback either. No AI and a lot of declaring war against the fascists in politics 😁 I’m a bit too old to tell what teenagers listen to these days. But I suspect from the perspective of people who really like music on a level which surpasses mainstream radio… Idk… There still seems to be some broad majority who doesn’t like overproduced music. At least that’s the bubble I’m at.

Hmmh. I think we’re already past posting some SUNO crap and getting flack. I mean reportedly, there’s already a lot of “AI music” on Spotify. We had the first “AI artists” on some billboards for R&B, country, pop, christian music(?)… And I get “AI music” on YouTube. And I’m fairly sure some small minority of retail stores here have (very nasty) “AI music”.

But it’s not like it’s good? To this date it’s some very bland shit you’d play in the elevator or on the loo. I’ve never felt anything when listening to it the same way I feel when listening to some old Pink Floyd album or whatever. And I doubt people will go to a music festival and there’s ChatGPT on stage… I’m fairly sure AI will have a hard time displacing proper art. I mean sure, pop music, the billionths love song text, samples, it’ll creep in to music. But we already have drum computers, electronic music. And to be fair, bands like The Prodigy never needed any drummer. But I really think from a perspective of someone who listens to music intentionally, there’s no chance AI will take over the entire thing. It’s just neither good, nor can it play concerts, nor does the music mean anything.

And from the hobby musician’s perspective, I’d say music is entirely for humans. It’s your personal enjoyment to play folk songs on the accordion, pop covers on the acoustic guitar at the fireplace or bring your fiddle and flute to the session at the irish pub. Or meet with your band mates in the practice room every week to play some punk rock and drink a lot of beer. AI can’t ever take that away.

I don’t get it either. What’s it gonna do? Replace Chad Smith, and the next time I get to watch the Red Hot Chili Peppers, it’s ChatGPT at the drums? I doubt it?!

Interesting. Most other people seem to use coding agents. I mean I also tried the polar opposite end of the spectrum. Copy-paste snippets into ChatGPT and back. I think that’s how a lot of people got started. But it’s tedious, still makes me let the AI do things which I later regret in the design. And I tracked my time once or twice for similar tasks. And I was slower than just typing it down myself without any AI assistance. Guess I still have to figure out what to do to get some proper use out of it.

What kind of tools do you use for your workflow? Some IDE plugin or “agent” so it has access to the entire project files, but then give it stories of a size it can tackle in one shot? Or subdivide?
I mean I also tried to subdivide tasks into chunks and hand those out. But that also has some tendency the AI doesn’t really get what it’s supposed to do because it’s missing the broader picture. That was kind of the reason for me to try agents, so it has a plan, knows what’s next in line so it doesn’t write code which doesn’t integrate (as is) into the next step to do.

Yeah Idk. While I do in fact always have issues prompting AI… I kinda also think it has a weird form of “intelligence”. I wouldn’t say it does really well at following instructions. It tries. Certainly. But sometimes it rather does silly things. Like I recently was trying to prototype some web app. The app didn’t work. So I told it to write tests. And it wrote some stub which always passed. I had an argument with the agent how it can’t just tell me the project works now, but it always has to follow the usual agentic pattern: Plan, write code, execute the test suite, fix mistakes, repeat and only then add all files to a commit and tell me it’s done. And now we need some tests for it itself to see whether the program runs. It just wrote super convoluted tests, launching some headless browsers, didn’t ever get it right so ALL the tests kept failing. I told it to test functions and API endpoints instead (which is kind of a no brainer to do anyways). Those also kept failing. And after several hours of this nonsense it told me: TOO HARD, NEED TO FOCUS! And staged a commit which just deleted the entire test suite 😆 Hilarious. But neither what I wanted, nor what I instructed it to do…

I forgot what model that was. I was testing the Hermes Agent at that time.

I never know what amount of hand-holding is expected from me as the human operator. Models keep getting better. A year ago I had them make up convenient, yet nonexistent functions. Like mathproblem.solve() That hasn’t hapoened in a while. But I can’t be expected to instruct and teach it every tiny detail?!

Außerdem hat er 2025 gefordert die AfD wie jede andere Oppositionspartei zu behandeln. Und ging gerne zu den Geheimtreffen von Peter Thiel. Also ich würde sagen da gibt’s schon einen Verdachtsfall etwas mit rechts-außen zu tun zu haben?!

Hehe, several of your paragraphs deeply resonated with me. And AI is super fascinating if you ask me. Oftentimes the same way a train wreck is interesting. But yeah. Certainly interesting to listen to other programmers’ perspectives!

Reads like they started experimenting with an AI-driven workflow. Got some prototypes and early progress fast. And now the first draft kinda works, but it breaks left and right and they’re stuck in a loop to fix things, another thing breaks and they’re not getting anywhere.

Difficult to say what went wrong judging by what they wrote. That kind of information is missing in their rant. Could be a wrong choice of AI model, Agent framework, wrong workflow… Or AI in general. I also tend to get caught up in loops, yelling at the AI for half a day to fix things, write more strict tests so it can see itself what went wrong, and fix whatever it just broke in the process. Or yell at it for giving up and refactoring the entire project because it can’t figure out what went wrong and why.

there have been refactors. And refactors of the refactors. Refactors nested inside other refactors, like Russian dolls made of technical debt and poor architectural decisions

Can relate. 😅