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The AI Investment Boom

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271 points m-hodges | 3 comments | 20 Oct 24 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.006s | source
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apwell23 ◴[20 Oct 24 16:04 UTC] No.41896263[source]▶
> AI products are used ubiquitously to generate code, text, and images, analyze data, automate tasks, enhance online platforms, and much, much, much more—with usage expected only to increase going forward.

Why does every hype article start with this. Personally my copilot usage has gone down while coding. I tried and tried but it always gets lost and starts spitting out subtle bugs that takes me more time to debug than if i had written it myself.

I always have this feeling of 'this might fail in production in unknown ways' because i might have missed checking the code throughly . I know i am not the only one, my coworkers and friends have expressed similar feelings.

I even tried the new 'chain of thought' model, which for some reason seems to be even worse.

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badgersnake ◴[20 Oct 24 16:19 UTC] No.41896400[source]▶
It’s kinda true though. They are increasingly used for those things. Sure, the results are terrible and doing it without AI almost always yields better results but that doesn’t seem to stop people.

Look at this nonsense for example: https://intouch.family/en

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1. anon7725 ◴[20 Oct 24 16:34 UTC] No.41896543[source]▶
That’s one of the saddest bits of AI enshittification yet.
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2. CaptainFever ◴[21 Oct 24 09:55 UTC] No.41902433[source]▶
Not what enshittification means.
3. johnnyanmac ◴[21 Oct 24 14:17 UTC] No.41904441[source]▶
Most of my complaints with AI are ethical and legal. But damn me if "products" like this doesn't bring out the bits of luddite in me. Not just to the seller but anyone considering to buy this.

Everyone's dreams will differ, but I got into tech to make people more efficient, and in turn enable more of the human element and less pencil pushing. Not replace it entirely.