Lovable Sidekick

…and it’s almost always something entirely simple.

Changing the name is stupid, ut so is suing Google (or any other map provider). Tailoring place names to the target market has always been a common practice in cartography.

For almost all of those thousands of years, no tools existed to analyze the actual mechanics of brain function. The development of all sciences has been exponential in the last couple centuries. I’ll be here if you decide you want to converse like someone with a master’s degree instead of a mediocre high school student scrolling lemmy on the toilet.

Yes, the main problem with developing AI is that we really don’t understand how we think. Current AI doesn’t understand anything, it just imitates human output by processing a vast amount of existing output. But we do know a lot more now about how we think, understand and speak than we did a hundred years ago, and as a linguist you know this work isn’t standing still,. Compare it with genetics - 70 years ago we didn’t even know about DNA, and now we can splice genes. The fact that there’s still a lot of baseline work to do shouldn’t cast doubt on the goal, should it?

AI can’t replace programmers right now, but I’ve said all through my software dev career that our ultimate goal is to eliminate our jobs. Software will eventually be able to understand human language and think of all the right questions to ask to turn “Customer wants a button that does something” into an actual spec that generates fully usable code. It’s just a matter of time. Mocking AI based on what it currently can’t do is like mocking airplanes because of what they couldn’t do in the 1920s.

Let’s go for a walk in the park - they just cleaned the algae tanks!

I didn’t even know there was a competition for having a bigger audience.

Not with that attitude they won’t!

Pretty good intro for absolute beginners here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w

MS products used to be just Word, Excel, etc. I used to know the name of the guy who instituted adding “Microsoft” to all the names. I think he was a VP.

Reminds me of DMing an adventure that hinges on the party encountering teabags and hot water.

Seek counseling.

I actually don’t write code professionally anymore, I’m going on what my friend says - according to him he uses chatGPT every day to write code and it’s a big help. Once he told it to refactor some code and it used a really novel approach he wouldn’t have thought of. He showed it to another dev who said the same thing. It was like, huh, that’s a weird way to do it, but it worked. But in general you really can’t just tell an AI “Create an accounting system” or whatever and expect coherent working code without thoroughly vetting it.

That’s the beauty of AI tho - AI shit rolls uphill, until it hits the manager who imposed the decision to use it (or their manager, or even their manager).

Pinky is on form!

I’ve always said as a software developer that our longterm job is to program ourselves out of a job. In fact, in the long term EVERYBODY is “cooked” as automation becomes more and more capable. The eventual outcome will be that nobody will have to work. AI in its present state isn’t ready at all to replace programmers, but it can be a very helpful assistant.

Nope, it’s a hell of a good assistant tho (according to my friend who uses it daily for coding).

Pretty much most chem students doing labs.

I think any app for text input should have word prediction. It’s mostly for phone users but I’ve found it so handy since getting a phone where it’s well implemented (Pixel 8) I’ve quickly come to think of it as an essential component that should be available to any app.

Thanks, I’ll lookup pfSense. But straightforward host mapping has worked for me in the past with this router and others. It worked great on my old Cisco DSL router 25 years ago. So simple and straightforward, it should just freaking work. sigh