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Isn't it strange that we expect them to act like humans even though after a model was trained it remains static? How is this supposed to be even close to "human like" anyway

I'd go for something targeted than something that is pedled by preachy drug dealers personally.

Can't say how many times I heard of anecdotal stories where a user just flipped personality out of the blue, it kinda steals away emotional resolution and wisdom from resolving issues if for example trauma is related to another person.

It would help a lot to show what someone is missing out, I can't really fathom how the world would look like if taxes we're laser focus on solving issues instead of being pocketed in shady ways.

Like it would be nice for useful services to be made and people having a reason to protect/maintain them, something that goes both ways no? But overall it's either rage or apathy. And you know it's strange how corporations always pivot fast to what people want during a crisis, why not just be like that by default? It's disturbing and I don't know how long this can keep up

Perhaps something went wrong along the career path of a developer? Personally during my education there is a severe lack of actual coding done mid lectures, especially any sort of showcase of tools that are available. We didn't even get taught how to use debuggers, I see late year students still struggle how to do basic navigation in a terminal.

And the biggest irony is that the "scariest" projects we had at our university ended up being maybe 500-1000 lines of code, things really must go back to hands on programming with real time feedback from a teacher. LLM's only output what you ask and won't really suggest concepts used by professionals unless you go out of your way to ask for it, it all seems like a vicious cycle even though meaningful code blocks can range along 5 to 100 lines which. When I use LLM's I just get information burn out trying to dig through all that info or code

Or words such as "rise up" "fight the oppression".

Resistance sounds like some shortform offensive action, I'd prefer something more long term that shows a better path or what you're missing out on. The people I see who uses aggressive language like that aren't who I want to be around with ironically enough.

I have "shady CEO that doesn't give back to his country or community" fatigue

Wouldn't call it "Get shit done", but it is very nice to aggregate information I need though.

Or not having to waste time with poorly documented repositories for small questions for a small thing I want to do. I still think it doesn't scale well on bigger projects sadly, not yet anyway

Was expecting some mention of Universal Approximation Theorem

I really don't care much if this is semi-satire as someone else pointed out, the idea that AI will ever get "sentient" or explode into a singularity has to die out pretty please. Just make some nice Titanfall style robots or something, a pure tool with one purpose. No more parasocial sycophantic nonsense please

I feel like the average person isn't looking for something professional grade, sadly it's hard to get people to go away from Discord at the moment. Hard to suggest alternatives if people aren't seeking them yet.

If I had to say it would have to be something customizable, letting a user to delete their data even after getting kicked from a server, very fast and seamless joining process ,great gif/sticker support without any premium features etc. But really that's just some fantasy app lol. Discord is doing just fine destroying itself however

By the way, I didn't know there was an instant online test app because when I searched for Zulip I was in the download page and it doesn't say anything about trying it online. Seems like a strange suggestion UX wise but that's how I feel about it (wonder how many people missed out on this?), same thing after you enter the app. It should have a test area for the new user to chat around by himself with a bot or something with locally/session stored messages.

Zulip?

Louis Rossmann had a vid about this and it's much more than jut anonimity, it's about protecting yourself from being exploited by algorithms. Can go as far as influencing your political voting, or who knows what else.

Does tiktok have good intentions keeping your hooked all day on end?

How about using LLM's to improve developer experience instead? I've had a lot of failures with "AI" even on small projects, even the best things I've tried like (agentic-project-management) I still had to just go back to traditional coding.

Not sure if everyone shares this sentiment but the reason I use AI as a crutch is due to poor documentation that's out there, even simple terminal commands don't show use examples for ls when you try to type man ls. I just end up putting up with the code output because it works ok enough for short term, this however doesn't seem like a sustainable plan long term either.

There is also this dread I feel because what I would do if AI went down permanently? The tools I tried like Zeal really didn't do it for me either for documentation, not sure who decided on the documentation format but this "Made by professionals, for professionals" isn't really cutting it anymore. Apologies in advance if I missed out on any tools but in my 4+ years of university nobody ever mentioned any quality tools either, and I'm sure this trend is happening everywhere.