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For me personally? Software
So, this is literally a tech industrialist telling me that I’m stupid for not loving “AI.”
Remember when I said you were a shill?
I said you can hate it all you want, but also it's not going anywhere and in 20 years people are going to look back at posts like yours and laugh
It's definitely not The Virtual Boy
Let’s go with betamax, then, it’s just like betamax.
But, it is, it is the virtual boy. You work for and advocate for nigh universally detrimental trash.
I don't know if you're a teenager or something that thinks AI is only used to help people cheat on tests; or...
if you're an adult that has a blue collar job where AI is basically just a glorified search engine, but...
for the rest of us it's an integral part of our daily office lives; especially in software
During our morning meetings Claude acts like a secretary. It takes notes during the meeting and emails us all those notes when the meeting is over and during the meeting, if we want something done, we just verbally ask it to do something as if it were a real person. It can make tasks, send emails, add items to our calendars, send us reminders later in the day, etc...
Claude-Code is an app you install on your computer that, should you give it access, can literally alter files on your computer. So it helps us literally write code. Not only can it write code, it can read and review it as well. Searching for bugs, logic errors, etc... and that's exactly what we have it do. Every time someone pushes code, Claude reviews it. Two other humans also have to review the code, but Claude always reviews everything first
And since Claude can execute commands, it can launch and use apps. So Claude not only writes our unit tests, it runs them too; and not just unit tests. Claude can literally use our application like a real human would, so we have Claude do that too
For sales and marketing, Claude does data analytics.
Nobody is going to just wake up and say, "nah, all that sucks. Get rid of it"
Hey, remember that time I called you a shill?
Fuck off and go play with your Virtual Boy.
This is just silly
All of this is actually happening and it's not even brand new. I guess it's new to you, but some of us have been using these tools for years now.
If you're an older adult in a blue collar field you might be able to get away with spending your life thinking it's a stupid toy, but if you're young you might want to pay attention because real soon you're going to enter a work force where people are going to expect you to understand how these tools work
Again, just silly
The Virtual Boy didn't even last a year.
Tools like Siri and Alexa are over 12 years old and while they weren't based on LLMs its a clear indication that this kind of virtual assistant is not going away
And AI Agents and real LLMs are pushing 4 years now
You think you're being clever but you're just setting yourself up for failure
Hey, remember that time I called you a shill?
Good luck I guess... but in 5 years you don't get to say nobody told you. So, take this time now to learn or end up being the new-age version of one of those people who don't know how to open a PDF
I'm telling you right now, AI is not going anywhere and AI agents are everywhere
Fuck, you’re hardcore about this, do you suck your boss’s dick, Company Man?
I'm just trying to explain to you that while your experience with AI appears to just be people making shitty TikTok videos or whatever, in reality AI Agents are a new way to use your computer and it's not going to go away
Maybe you're too young to know this, but in the early 2000s we had all of our music on our computer. Literal music files. And it was a big deal to keep it organized. So if you had 200,000 songs you would want to make sure they were all in folders by artist or just straight up named {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} so you could find what you wanted to listen to quickly
But music files had no guaranteed naming convention so everyone just did what they thought was best and when you ripped a song off a CD or downloaded it off the internet the naming convention could be anything. So we spent hours renaming songs and filling out details, adding album artwork, etc... so that everything looked the way we wanted in our preferred music playing app like ITunes.
You know, when the song played, the right image showed up, it had the right star rating, the genre was correctly flagged, etc...
If AI Agents had existed back then, renaming all 200,000 songs to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} would be literally as easy as going into your Agent and typing
"Please rename all of my music files in c:\users\myuser\music to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName}"
And that's it... the Agent, because it knows every song by every artist, can figure out what every file in that folder is and what the name is suppose to be; and then it will actually rename the files for you, successfully
No business is looking at that kind of technology and saying, "this is dumb".
So, yes?
Just really driving home how fucking stupid it was to claim AI was the next Virtual Boy
I want you to remember this so you can spend the next years of your life knowing just how foolish it was to say that
I never said it was the next virtual boy, it’s the current virtual boy. Make sure that you remember all your claims, too, buddy. It’s going to be fun to look back at your stupidity in five years when the bubble has popped. You’re far from the first person to be overly proud of a failure.
It's already not a failure though. This is what you can't seem to grasp
Like the dot-com bubble, yeah, some AI companies are probably going under. I'm unsure if there's a need or want big enough to support, say, AI Music. So will Suno survive? I don't know.
But when the dot-com bubble burst the internet didn't die. Web pages didn't vanish. Online businesses didn't stop becoming a part of our daily lives. In fact, it's the exact opposite. Most business are on the web now. Software is hosted on the cloud, streaming is how we watch tv, online shopping is the norm, etc...
The dot-com bubble burst but the internet still took over society
AI is not going away. That's just all there is to it. You can hate it all you want, but in 20 years people are going to look back on posts like yours with the same way we look back on people who claimed the internet was a fad. It's just silly.
People aren't just going to take this massive breakthrough in computing and throw it away.
Your virtual boy isn’t the internet. It pales in what it is capable of next to the internet. The internet literally connected the entire world together. It did new things. The modern virtual boy is not even in the same sport as the internet. You really just sound like a lazy conformist, which seems right for a tech industrialist pushing a product.
Why do you need me to like “AI” so much? What would that do for you? Just walk away, dumbass, you’re not converting me to your church of the virtual boy.
You say AI doesn't do new things but it does, probably more so than any other invention in human history...
I'm under the impression that you're young and that to you AI is a fad because it's just a silly toy that people use to make shitty TikTok videos; that eventually people will tire of the AI slop, it'll stop getting likes, and people will stop using it.
But that's not what AI actually is, that's just the side effect of AI.
AI can do anything you can do on a computer. If you can write code and make apps, so can AI. If you can make pictures and music, so can can AI. If you do data analytics for research, so can AI. If you use computers to scan the stars for planets, look for cancer, or research potential new forms of medicine, so can AI. And crazier, you don't even need to type. Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech means you can literally just talk to your computer now. You can have actual conversations with your computer. It can help you debug, design, build, and when it comes down to it, AI can actually do the work for you.
And unlike Siri you don't have to give it specific commands. "It's fucking dark in here, fix that" is something AI can understand. It'll turn on the lights
It's something straight out of Star Trek
None of us are worried about AI because it sucks, we're all worried about AI because it's so immensely powerful we're a bit scared about what it means for all of our futures.
Is AI going to bring in a new age of marvelous science where cancer is curable and every year we get what is basically a vaccine for the cold? Are humanoid robots going to make complex surgery a breeze with a 99.999% survival rate? Or are clankers going to take all of our jobs and be used in humanoid robots to invade my country?
Either way, it's not going away. It's here... people have been working on this, researching it, writing papers on it, experimenting with it, etc.... for decades and we've finally figured out how to make it work. Nobody is just throwing it away now that it's here
An obvious fucking 23 year old telling me I’m obviously too young g and stupid to understand the world around me. Sorry, kid, stopped reading there, don’t give a shit about the rest of your overzealous sales pitch. It’s alright, I knew VR was going to change video gaming at its core. We’ve all been wrong about something. Have fun with your brain rot virtual boy, but stop acting like it’s jesus.