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“AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”

• Larry Tesler

algorithmic approaches that are only colloquially referred to as “AI”. Artificial Intelligence is still science fiction

That’s why this joke definition of AI is still the best: “AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”

I have forgotten all working definitions of AI that CS professors gave except for this one 🙃

As in, I agree with your point. I just want to give a shoutout to the non-ML-based AI.

Let’s not forget about traditional AI, which have served us well for so long that we stopped thinking of them as AI.

AI is a super broad field that encompasses so many tech. It is not limited to the whatever the tech CEOs are pushing.

In this comment section alone, we see a couple examples of AI used in practical ways.

On a more personal level, surely you’d have played video games before? If you had to face any monster / bot opponents / etc, those are all considered AI. Depending on the game, stages / maps / environments may be procedurally generated - using AI techniques!

There are many more examples - e.g. pathfinding in map apps, translation apps -, just that we are all so familiar with them that we stopped thinking of them as AI.

So there are plenty of evidence for AI’s usefulness.

Because AI - in a very broad sense - is useful.

forced exploitation of untold millions of artists and creative laborers, without even so much as consent, let alone compensation…

In this case, is it AI that you truly hate?

I think this comment said it best.

a distro with the GNOME desktop environment

We would have lost a newbie by this point.

I don’t think we are representative of the average user. For example, noone from my family heard of these terms, or even care. They just want to browse the web, watch some Youtube videos, and that’s it.

Same thing with Fediverse instances.

IMO the linux and/or fediverse community could learn a thing or two about UX from the establishment.

I believe the best approach is to take note of the Pareto Principle: 20% of instances / distros would meet the need of 80% of users.

I would simply recommend Ubuntu / lemmy.world to complete beginners (just based on market share). If they are interested in alternatives, they would naturally seek those out themselves.

This concept is nothing new e.g. Google presents their searchbar front and centre; power users would click on “Advance Search” for their needs.

Not adding anything useful to the discussion, but the “ban” in kanban is board 😅

So kanban board is like chai tea.

My understanding is that HFTs - which are highly profitable - likely use some AI-techniques.

(Though I doubt that they are using LLMs - or at the very least, the ones we are familiar with.)

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won’t be updating to Java 21

happy sad dev noises

If you consider the perspective of the serfs who built the pyramids, the gameplay is actually kinda lore-accurate.

In the ‘Medium’ difficulty category, OpenAI’s o4-mini-high model scored the highest at 53.5%.

This fits my observation of such models. o4-mini-high is able to help me with 80-90% of the problems at work. For the remaining problems, it would come up with a nonsensical solution and no matter how much I prompt it, it would tunnel-vision on that specific approach. It could never second guess itself and realise that its initial solution is completely off the mark, and try an entirely differently approach. That’s where I usually step in and do the work myself.

It still saves me time with the trivial stuff though.

I can’t say the same for the rest of the LLMs. They are simply no good at coding and just waste my time.

TLDR

Redis for caching, RabbitMQ for queues, Elasticsearch for search, and MongoDB for… reasons?

Postgres might be too good for its own good. It’s so capable that it makes most other databases seem unnecessary for 90% of applications.

Thanks for sharing. The built-in text search sounds helpful for the project I’m working on.

Personally, I have seen so many memes about exiting vim that by the time I got to use it for the first time, exiting it was a no-brainer.

For any newbies out there, the command is

:wq

I don’t get the punchline.