Basically, the actual problem is with the capitalist system of relations and how automation is inevitably applied by the capitalists to harm workers.

Same, AI haters really don’t realize just how far this tech has come in just the past year. I’ve had to work on frontend Js projects at work, and I’ve been lucky enough to avoid Js for most of my career. I have lots of experience programming, and I know how to structure applications, but I’m not familiar with Js stack, libraries, and syntax quirks. LLMs help me paper over all that and use it like any other language I’m already well versed in. Without LLMs, I would’ve had to spent literally months ramping up on Js ecosystem to do the work I’m doing now.

There are countless constructive and legitimate uses for AI/LLMs. This just another form of automation, and it works well for many tasks already. Other people in the thread have already given a ton of examples, so I don’t really have to reiterate them here. Meanwhile, practically all the criticisms of this tech actually boil down to problems with how it’s applied under capitalism.

Yup, and that’s probably going to happen in the coming months, after that there’s no way to stabilize the prices.

O7

Exactly, it’s a self reinforcing process with more countries fleeing the currency as confidence collapses. And having a global reserve underpins the US fiscal policy, if the demand for the dollar drops dramatically then it’s almost certainly will lead to a domestic economic crash.

I think some are used to suppress price domestically as well.

O7

exactly

Oh you can scan it, but as I recall they then force you to put your phone number in to finish the process.

That’s what google’s been using to lockout non official Android forks like GrapheneOS. You can click on the eye icon at the bottom to get the regular captcha though… for now.

Yeah, as I recall it was just codex repackaged, but there is also the aspect of the tooling itself that the model interacts with which they massively fumbled. People will still use codex on its own, but nobody wants to ever use copilot.

Not putting it into atmosphere is precisely how capture at the source works. Carbon is the input for the industrial process here. Every bit that isn’t captured is wasted.

Oh that’s the magic of tools like opencode, you run it in a folder and it acts as a harness for the model where it can interact with the filesystem. You could do the same with an IDE as well, making your own agentic harness is actually pretty straight forward. So you could make a plugin that talks to, say, ollama https://ampcode.com/notes/how-to-build-an-agent

I find these kinds of projects are neat, but if I’m being honest, I tend to just keep plain markdown files as well. The only thing I find that’s missing with that is searchability. Once you get enough files, it can get unwieldy. Although, I’ve been playing around with just using a local model lately as the interface. You can throw opencode at a folder with the files, and even a small model can find stuff fairly competently there.

kinda of hilarious that MS has a stake in both of the worst commercial LLM offerings

The thing is that even if the war ended tomorrow, it’s going to be years before production ramps back up to prewar levels. So, the damage is already done. The only question now is how bad it gets.

there is that too, but greed and corruptions are big factors to be sure

I suspect they know it doesn’t work, but people line their pockets and then sell it to the gullible public as doing something about the climate crisis.

There have been greenwash projects as well. The numbers are hilarious, like they remove 50 tons a year. 🤣

https://www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/canadas-deep-sky-to-pilot-dac-unit-from-dutch-startup-carbyon