I mean, if i felt suicidal, i would absolutely drain a bank first. Fuck em. And maybe my crazy idea would pay out and everyone wins.
Edit: Plus, sometimes telling a bald faced dream to as many people as possible is just what the world needs. We need big ideas to believe in, otherwise we just blow all the extra money on RAM chip futures. Better to see if someone’s crazy idea has merit.
already happening.
They’re laying people off and then bleeding money. Replacing people implies actually still making a pofit and remaining a viable business. That isn’t happening. They are, as usual, sacrificing the future of each company, for a quick stock price boost.
Serious question: Anyone seen a janitor robot running anywhere that wasn’t constantly filthly?
I have only encountered janitor bots fighting in vain in places that have clearly gone decades (or one astonishingly abusive hour) without a successful cleaning.
This, exactly!
I’ll accept a substantial ownership stake in the whole place, in exchange for making a leasurely attempt to pull their asses out of the fire.
And, frankly, I’ve been here less than a day and I love it more than I did Reddit. (Still figuring this place out, but yeah )
Welcome!
Has anyone invited you to try Linux yet? (I’m joking. But Linux is pretty great now. Let us know if you’re Linux curious…)
Edit: Also, we love Star Trek here, but we only fully agree on the old seasons and on Lower Decks.
Unless they’re a benevolent billionaire, obviously.
but that handful isn’t enough to actually force meaningful change or to prevent the worst from happening. :(
Yes. They’re allowing the planet to boil to avoid briefly inconveniencing idiot billionaires who believe they will science magic their way to Mars to escape.
We don’t need any more evidence that they’re worthless traitors to humanity. =/
Yes. They’re already pushing this narrative against GrapheneOS.
Every middle aged person was once a younger person. It could stop at children, but I don’t think that’s their plan.
Re: What’s the best community - I’ll read along with interest for answers.
Maybe we should start one!
In “production”, the place I anticipate having an “Agentic AI” is right at the start of a bunch of local hard-coded strongly protected “agent skills (bash scripts)”. - Just so I can shout instructions at my PC from across the room, for things that don’t matter much.
Any other production use sounds really foolish.
That said, I use local AI a decent amount for prototyping in realms where I’m unfamiliar with what is generally available and possible. I find it great for that.
All this to say, I’ll gladly join such a discussion group to swap tips on what is working or not.
Agentic AI can do everything that a trivial bash script can do, but worse (less reliably at higher computer processor cost).
The future of Agentic AI is providing the features of bash shell to people who cannot afford the time or effort or $15 to buy and read through the Pocket Guide to Linux Shell Scripting. (I joke!)
But joking aside - AI, in general, is amazing at helping discover exisitng capabilities of a computer. AI should become more and more popular for discovery through prototyping. Agentic AI should increasingly play a role in that prototyping.
But throwing Agentic AI directly into production can skip the whole process of discovering a capability and writing a reliable bash script, and jump straight to just hoping to heaven or hell that the AI hasn’t hallucinated and ruined whatever it was asked to work on.
That is to say, Agentic AI is useful shortcut when the results really don’t matter. We should see significant use in toys, for example, if the pocessor cost can be brought low enough.
There will also probably always be a role for AI, in general, to serve as a shittier but hands free alternative to the mouse, keyboard and various other computer interfaces.
Are you suggesting that:
Are taking things too far?
Yes! Maybe it’s the role of someone else’s lifetime.
Gary played at least a dozen roles that would have been career defining for a lesser actor. Haha.
I am serious. But don’t call me Shirley.
Yes. I suspect this is all because we successfully arrested Epstein.
They worry we won’t actually stand for their kidnapping and raping our kids, unless they strengthen their grip.
This is bizarre.
It’s a path to knowing who everyone is, online.
Knowing who everyone is online is a path to accidental falls from third story windows for people who advocate for taxing billionaires.
What might actually happen is AI will become clever enough to migrate everyone’s business to exisitng open source software solutions.
People are super excited to enjoy barf slop remixes of shards of exisitng open source programs.
If the AI gets smarter, it could start obtaining entire intact copies of those same programs.
And for free.
It’ll be life changing for some small businesses.
It will be life changing for Microsoft and Amazon as well, but for different reasons.
Absolutely everything in modern technology is rent seeking from people who really only need a free copy of Open Offfice Calc.
Legally, check your local laws or just be sure to cover your ass with tor or a VPN with an anonymous core.
Ethically, just obey Wheaton’s Law: “Don’t be a dick.”
With web scraping, I can think of two ways Wheaton’s law applies:
Scrapers should blend into existing background web traffic. They should be slow enough to not overwhelm their servers. This requires babysitting any new scraper until one is sure it is tuned to be safe for the scraped site.
Any scraped content shouldn’t be re-hosted in a way that harms the original content creators. Sharing is lovely. Harming artists sucks. Finding the right balance between preservation and respect can take some thought, but it’s usually actually a pretty wide road.
Yes. This is where every “have you tried Agentic AI?” conservation lands, for me.
They tell me I could pay daily, for worse results, to give up the bash script that has worked perfectly for five years. Oh, gee. Tell me more! Haha.