I wish. I would be forced to write some code again and actually get back what I enjoyed to do.
As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career
Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)
Millennials, particularly the younger millennials especially, grew up right in the sweet spot to be at a tech advantage
Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.
Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is…
Sure these systems are “obsolete” but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I’m not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I’m even saying this.
The older gen z too I would say
Wholeheartedly agree. This is from 2013, and I feel it’s only gotten worse since then.
Oh, I remember reading this … 13 years ago … . 👴
We tried to teach ours and got “dad can you just fix it I’m in a game”. Then no desire to learn in free time.
Would you mind sharing how you tried to teach and what you think went wrong?
When we built his PC we invited him to learn about it as we picked components and as we put them together. Every time he had a computer problem, we’d try to explain why it happened and how we fixed it. Just no interest at all unfortunately.
They will if you don’t use AI though
Don’t believe you, seems like useless nonsense to me
Considering how much competitive jobs have become refusing to use a powerful tool like AI won’t help. I’m not saying that you should use it just that people using it will be advantaged over these who don’t
I work in a creative industry, as far as we are concerned it is plagiarism
It is also non deterministic crap that developers should know better than to use
I work in a creative industry, as far as we are concerned it is plagiarism
AI can be useful in pretty much every field, if you are shoveling snow llms can help you making a plan and draw a route to do it faster
Why don’t you actually try this and see how it goes?
I work for a landscaping company, my boss tried to get us to use AI to develop site plans… we went back to doing it the old fashioned way because AI is fuckin useless for stuff like this.
give it a bunch of years and you will see taking it over any other industry, same as computers and mobile phones
We have path finding algorithms. Large Language Models aren’t suited for that.
Probably speaking to the choir here, but I do feel it is worth pointing out that those same algorithms were considered AI until like 3-5 years ago when the zeitgeist shifted to AI=Transformers/LLMs
I know enough to understand it’s useless, it will fall apart when the psychosis wears off
Video generators are becoming excellent and image generators already are, what makes you think people will give up on these tools? The industry is already adapting, 1/3 of the ads you see now are made with AI
As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!
I agree. I am more than happy to pass the torch when the time comes. I certainly don’t want to work forever, but I also want to be able to train competent replacements at some point.
The global economy is probably already dependent on some Claude code instance updating an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop with a note ”don’t close the lid!” attached to it
I know my work already has reports built by running data through Claude and having it spit out an xls. Though, it’s not quite as integral as the all-important closet laptop.
This guy ITs
Reminds me of some stupid company maybe a few months ago that had their PRs failing due to copilot being down the dumbasses didn’t build an “if no AI” failsafe into their workflow. And no one knew how to recover it
When I was a teenager I used to work at an airport and they had critical infrastructure running on things like Basic and Assembly, to transfer data between the computers and modern systems you have to use floppy disks because the computers that they ran on didn’t have drivers to support USB and we couldn’t upgrade the computers because the software wouldn’t work on any other hardware.
So the AI laptop will be at home amongst all the ancient but supercritical junk that seems to be necessary to run our world.
That’s dumb. The “work” in maintaining this excel file was the prompting and overall agent logic. In reality you’d be using something like openrouter and the instant claude “dies” for whatever reason you swap to whatever the freshest AI is. This never becomes ancient, it keeps up with the times.
I don’t know about that the entirety of European airspace was closed early in the year because of a pilot inputed some malformed data and it crashed both the primary and backup system. The backup system just fed the primary systems inputs into it, so that was inevitable.
I’m not sure what your point is. Garbage in garbage out, that’s just the law of computers. That would br the pilot’s mistake.
The point is there’s zero error checking.
That’s on you, when using AI you always have a verifier script afterwards, it’s basic common sense. And if a script can’t do it then human, if you’re saving 90% of the time instead of 100% it’s still fine.
How’s it my job to fix the aviation industry?
This is a perfect example of why I’ve never used AI and never will.
when using AI you always have a verifier script afterwards
LOL. Sounds like you’re wasting 110% time here.
At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech’s software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.
If you want to scare yourself:
spoiler
They serviced Medical devices: X-rays, MRIs, CT-Scanners, etc.
Honestly, I’d prefer those medical device run on older software than even Win10 lol
I wonder if Proton can run these old softwares
Here’s the funny thing … they never worked to begin with!
I cannot stress enough how correct this is. It feels like it’d be similar to early Covid lockdown. People with real jobs that contribute to things are still working while everyone else with the cushy meaningless jobs are sent home to do nothing where they complain and make things harder for the people actually doing things.
I literally quit my job to join them because I couldn’t take it anymore and was met with an insane amount of harassment. Apparently I had be lucky to be considered essential.
The Covid lockdowns made me feel crazy. There I was, sitting at home playing video games and smoking weed all day, every day, like God intended. Meanwhile, my roommate was going stir crazy because he really wanted to go back to work. I still don’t understand it.
That’s a good comparison, because it illustrates very well why LLMs are so (seemingly) successful. If this useful technology were used primarily by the people who actually worked during COVID, there wouldn’t be a problem, because these people are very good at assessing what’s possible and what isn’t - since they actually understand their work. The problem - and the absurd hype - arises simply because LLMs reinforce the completely absurd ideas of incompetent people - and these are the ones who had nothing to do during the pandemic, since they do nothing but schedule pointless meetings and waste the time of those who are actually doing something meaningful.
This implies that the brains worked before.
Looking at the world, this is quite a bold assumption, I would say …But then what would y’all complain about?
Oh god, the brainrot’s got to you, too! You don’t even remember what people complained about 3 years ago!
Politics, same as we do now, everyone complained about politics.
And how their favorite game/movie/linux distro was being u fairly maligned by a competing game/movie/windows studio.
Politics, bigotry, transphobes, homophoves and right extremism on the rise. Those sorts of things.
When do you think we will see people doing Lent but with AI instead of food.
We call it digital detox
We should turn off AI for a week to see if people notice.
It is completely useless for the vast majority of users. By vast, I mean almost everyone.
After a week:
I wouldn’t mind seeing how bad the withdrawal is.
I hope the withdrawal symptoms are gonna be on par with alcohol withdrawal.
An actual picture of 2026 from the “no pivot to AI” universe
This is why it’s important to distinguish between LLMs and AI. Turn off all LLMs and life will go on. Turn off all AI and you lose everything from automated supply chain management to room ACs.
Turn off all the AI and I can’t play Halo anymore because the enemies don’t do anything
Jup, it’s as if everyone magically forgot about pre-deep-learning AIs the moment Microsoft and OpenAI appropriated the word AI to mean LLM++.
Turn off ALL AI and you’ll have windmills and power plants go rogue, ships will loose navigation and stabilization, planes falling down from the skies, and most important: the NPCs in your video games will only be able to react with the most simple interactions - terrible, truly!
AI is such a broad term is to essentially be meaningless. My thermostat does not use AI it uses a very simple algorithm.
We have a OCR system at work that runs on a Windows XP computer, people used to call that AI until about 10 years ago.
LLMs are just a more complicated algorithm though. AI would be a pretty useful term so long as people are sure to make that distinction and only use AI to refer to a truly complex algorithm. Calling a thermostat algorithm on an A/C “AI” is definitely a meaningless use of the term
“Hi Dave, great idea, I’ll turn the heaters on bust, we’ll be nice and toasty in here soon 🥰☕”
No I said turn on the AC, it’s already a furnace in here
“Oh sorry, my bad! I’ll turn off the fridge right away!”
Distressed fridge makes upset beeping noses from kitchen
Windows 7 built-in voice control lol
If it’s deterministic, I don’t see it as AI.
LLMs are deterministic, they just have some random inputs in most implementations
That would also mean that a lot of “AI” in games wouldn’t actually be worthy of the name. Which actually I agree with.
It’s “behavior” now.
it uses a very simple algorithm.
That is AI too. If a machine can make a decision based on some input, it is AI. A (functional) if statement in a programme makes it AI.
Would you call an old school analog thermostat (that uses melting and congealing wax to open/shut a vent) AI?
There are ‘computers’ made using clockwork and hydraulics, so I guess yes.
Lots of people think it’s only AI if it’s at least a Machine-Learning enabled Neural Network whose model is at least of 1B+ parameter complexity and runs on a digital computer using NVIDIA hardware.
It isn’t, or at least wasn’t, unless you use the techbro definition from the past 10 or so years (or the Hollywood definition from before that).
Bristlebots were some of the most simple proto-AI you could make. They are capable of navigation and object-avoidance in 3D space and even show simple swarm behavior, even without any kind of computing power or “brain”.
turn off all ai and you kill caine
Grok, please turn off all ai.
This is how you kickstart Skynet
So far, so good.
Outages via https://downdetector.com/Is there even any AI anywhere? I 've never seen any. No company has any AI to offer. Am I missing something? I know only LLM, ANN, ML, DL and so on…
I’m so sick of the propagandized term. Its not ai.
I write well enough for the e-mails I’m required to send, I don’t code, I have no use/desire to generate “art,” and I don’t like search results I have to double check so I’ve been blessed (cursed?) to not have to use “AI” in my daily life.
If we shutdown AI there’d also be a massive hiring spree and wages would probably tick up a bit to compensate. AI is just the latest scam to suppress workers and wages. They want perpetual suffering for us and infinite gains for themselves.
