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bgwalter ◴[] No.44625261[source]
Translation: His company will launch "AI" products in order to get funding or better compete with Valkey.

I find it very sad that people who have been really productive without "AI" now go out of their way to find small anecdotal evidence for "AI".

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brokencode ◴[] No.44625432[source]
I find it even more sad when people come out of the woodwork on every LLM post to tell us that our positive experiences using LLMs are imagined and we just haven’t realized how bad they are yet.
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1. halfmatthalfcat ◴[] No.44625551[source]
Could it not be that those positive experiences are just shining a light that the practices before using an LLM were inefficient? It’s more a reflection on the pontificator than anything.
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2. jstanley ◴[] No.44625673[source]
Tautologically so! That doesn't show that LLMs are useless, it perfectly shows how they are useful.
3. johnfn ◴[] No.44625714[source]
Sure, but even then the perspective makes no sense. The common argument against AI at this point (e.g. OP) is that the only reason people use it is because they are intentionally trying to prop up high valuations - they seem unable to understand that other people have a different experience than they do. You’d think that just because there are some cases where it doesn’t work doesn’t necessarily mean that 100% of it is a sham. At worst it’s just up to individual taste, but that doesn’t mean everyone who doesn’t share your taste is wrong.

Consider cilantro. I’m happy to admit there are people out there who don’t like cilantro. But it’s like the people who don’t like cilantro are inventing increasingly absurd conspiracy theories (“Redis is going to add AI features to get a higher valuation”) to support their viewpoint, rather than the much simpler “some people like a thing I don’t like”.

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4. bgwalter ◴[] No.44626683[source]
"Redis for AI is our integrated package of features and services designed to get your GenAI apps into production faster with the fastest vector database."