God I hope it just fucking collapses and pulls every other tech company down with them. I’m so fucking sick and tired of coworkers thinking ChatGPT is the most perfect thing that has ever been made. Every single fucking time I’m searching for something I’m asked “Why don’t you just ask ChatGPT”. They will not shut the fuck up, even when I show them ChatGPT is completely full of shit. Want it to write a simple 40 line script for Excel? Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn’t fucking work, because it’s trying to use functions that don’t excist. “You’re totally right, and so clever for pointing that out! Here’s an updated script that takes that into account”, still doesn’t fucking work.
Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn’t fucking work, because it’s trying to use functions that don’t excist
I feel this, after searching for packages in apt that not only don’t exist for debian, but in general
Can sometimes help to edit your previous message with additional instructions and regenerating rather than responding to ask for a correction. Also copy pasting documentation and code examples with syntax that is real into the prompt. Might also try something other than ChatGPT since OpenAI sucks in general.
Or just you know, learn how to code and do it yourself?
I for one would really prefer not to spend brain space on things like Excel scripting syntax. I haven’t actually tried current frontier models but every LLM I’ve used isn’t good enough to actually get good results vibe coding without applying some of your own programming knowledge, so I think you’d still want to learn regardless.
Brains are elastic and the more you put into them the better they work.
Are you a programmer? My general experience as a programmer has been that being judicious in what you spend time and energy thinking about is one of the most important things to do. The amount of languages, frameworks, and libraries all with their own syntax, documentation and quirks vastly exceeds the capacity of any one person to durably memorize, and there are compelling reasons to want to use a wide range of them on an infrequent basis and not specialize. Strategies to avoid getting lost in the weeds and find shorter paths to your actual goals were important before LLMs and they are now even more important.
Also, personally, my memory sucks, not everyone is dealing with the same constraints and because of that there is no single right approach.
You’re right of course but they’re not arguing in good faith. Wrong excel formulas in 2026? This person is either full of it, or they’re trying to prompt gpt-3.5 in ancient Aramaic.
“But but but didn’t prompt it right bro”
And the cool part is that the USA stock market gains for the last couple years are based on OpenAI (and others) promising to buy stuff sometime in the future to build their data centres, which in turn spins into reinvestment in the company and a giant circlejerk.
Run out faster
Mid 2026 would be much better!
Or even early 2026. It’s still not too late.
He sees this as a temporary problem for AI providers, though, as agentic AI becomes more entrenched in daily people’s lives, it’ll become harder to switch, as the bots should eventually have all your shopping preferences, aspirations, and emotional profile mapped out —perhaps even better than yourself.
God what a dystopian sentence that is.
That’s assuming millions of people switch to agentic browsers and use them agentically. A big assumption.
There’s easily millions of people in the US alone that do not know any better and will do exactly that.
My conspiracy theory: The plan is to fail and sell the data centers to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.
I think Apple is much more desperate for that gamble than Microsoft.
Can you explain why? Microsoft seems to have bet the farm on AI, Apple certainly has a less sure future than they have had since the mid 00s but they still have a firm grip on the smart phone market, at least in the US
Microsoft is a weirdly desperate corporation in its attempts to generate money outside of the methods that have kept it afloat since the 1990s.
And also destroy consumer electronics market together with it, so everyone uses their rental clod solutions
building my next pc late 2027 then
Bold of you to assume these companies won’t just keep price gouging us, they’ve done it before.
I just pulled the trigger yesterday. I don’t see prices coming down in a reasonable time, and the bundle at my local Microcenter was the same price as when I first looked a little under a year ago.
Ugh it’s looking like that, I might just say fuck it and overspend on some ram cos I’m getting anxious about its future
Wish it were sooner
Why can’t they just ask ChatGPT how to make more money?
Because the answer is unlikely to be factually correct and thus unlikely to be useful.
And they are trying to sell that? Dang.
Ask chatgpt how to make them LOSE more money.
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Too long, these assholes are fucking up everything from the economy to medicine at great individual and societal cost.
Burn baby burn
Id say i cant wait, but theyll probably get bailed out and everything will become more expensive as the economy crashes. So thats cool
May it happen even sooner.
God I hope it all collapses before the end of trumps term.
God I hope it all collapses <immediately, and causes> … the end of trumps term.
I’m smart enough to know that when the bubble bursts it’s going to mess with the world economy, apparently way worse than the 2008 recession, but I’m too stupid to understand why. I just hear people say things and it would be nice to see these assholes get wrecked for once and not just rake in some cash and dip in time while the rest of the world is left to pay the clean up bill for a party they were never invited to.
I mean, I watched the big short and the only thing I understood from that movie was that the bad guys won and everybody else lost. So I am sorta preparing for the worst here xD
The first 10 minutes of Fun with Dick and Jane might make more sense than any explanation I could offer.
