I still have my suspicions about how that 49% is being measured, because if it counts any ‘use’ then technically using most search engines is using an LLM regardless of wether you want to or not, a lot of people are now also forced by their employers regardless of wether they want to or not.

Only loosing 3x more than they make!? That’s a gigantic success by modern standards.

Even if that’s true its not odds I’d take on anything that costs money or that could be potentially dangerous.

Been on linux full time for under a week, I’d say linux is more like.
“I have issue”
“Here’s 10 extremely techincal solutions that will take you hours to work through and may not work”
“I still have issue”
“Oh yeh there’s just a button you can press that fixes it instantly”

On the bright side thats more my own lack of familiarity than anything and once an issue is fixed it stays fixed and generally works a lot more cleanly than if I had a similar issue on windows where fixes are always kind of cludgey.

I keep hearing the AI will get cheaper to run because its only training that’s expensive, but at the same time tokens cost more than employees and are still being sold at a 10 fold loss, and we apparently still need infinitely more compute to run models that can just barely do a simple job so long as you don’t mind spending even more time eventually fixing their work than they supposedly saved.

I find that hard to believe, I recently had to uninstall co-pilot after it weaseled its way into my search bar. Its not an exageration to say that my PC literally ran cyberpunk 2077 with pathtracting better than it ran the fucking windows search bar with co-pilot.

But everyone loves AI, look how its use has doubled! ᴬᶠᵗᵉʳ ʷᵉ ᶠᵒʳᶜᵉᵈ ⁱᵗ ⁱⁿᵗᵒ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵃᵈᵉ ⁱᵗ ᵒᵖᵗ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒⁿˡʸ

You can but you can:

• A, Use an excessive amount of computing power to run an LLM agent to do it
• B, Spend 5 minutes on youtube
• C, The dev could just program in the option to skip

Tokens are now costing more than human workers…

The populations of Ireland and Scotland still haven’t recovered from what happened to them.

Me watching every single piece of social media regurgitate right wing talking points for the last decade.
No shit.

Nah we won’t get that far, turns out re-entering satellites deplete ozone pretty significantly but on a 30y delay. SpaceX and Amazon are gonna keep launching their mega-constellations on the grounds of ‘Nothing bad has happened yet so you can’t prove it will’ and by the time it kicks in it’ll be too late.

Or even a local level, at this late stage its all about lobbying for ever increasing tax breaks and subsidies.

Nono, someone else will pay someone elser to not cut down a tree that already exists. Then a few weeks later that someone elser will ‘decide’ to cut down that tree after all so someone else can pay them to not cut down the same tree again. On paper this counts as 2 whole trees being magically generated.

Within a complex enough system the difference becomes functionally meaningless anyway, We could re-configure all matter (except you) in the universe into one giga computer and it would still struggle to accurately predict your behaviour beyond a few minutes because the physical system of your brain is just that chaotic. So wether we’re concious or not, or have free will or not ultimately makes no difference.

iirc Disney already has something akin to corporate extra-territorality and and republicans were floating a wider rollout of that during Trumps last term?

AI going from ‘It’ll make everything so much more efficient!’ to deliberately doing everything as inneficiently as possible is just… idk beyond even satire at this point.

Everyone under 30 is trying as hard as we damn well can but the ship is sinking way faster than any of us can climb and some bastard has stolen all ladders. So the situation is kind of keep trying but with the acceptance that we’re fucked anyway.

My local supermarket asks for access to all your personal information in perpituity for the rest of time, for any purpose, just to apply. It is part of a very large chain.

3D artist here, generative AI models are great at making work that looks super impressive while being completely unuseable for most applications, I suspect this is what most tech workers find too.