It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI… but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

It’s like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we’ve been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

“But we sell balloons”

“Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better”

Had a new hire try to do all his automation programming in python with an AI. It was horrifying.

Lists and lists and lists of if else statements they caught if a button errored but never caught if it did the right thing. 90% of their bug reports were directly due to their own code. Trivially provable.

Work keeps trying to tell us to use more AI but refuses to mention whether the training data is using company emails. If it is then a buttload of unlabeled non public data is getting fed into it. So only a matter of time until a “fun fact” from the AI turns into a nightmare.

Most of our stuff is in an obscure field with outdated code, so any coding assistance is not really that impressive.

Yeah, the performance pushed me away as well. I haven’t had a graphics card struggle in a long time. It was very painful to see it happen to me in VR. Like damn near nauseating.

Oh my god yes!

I always thought that heaven sounds like hell. It’ll be great for about a week but eventually nonstop perfection would become so monotonous. Like playing a video game that you completed for all eternity. It’d be the worst kind of torture, to make everything you love into something you get bored of.

Have you looked at resonite at all? It is what they’re trying to aim for.

I’ve brought it up before but every time I mention it’s been like that for over a decade, they all lose interest

My neck clicks whenever I turn to the right.

I mean… it’s not, quite nature… but a massive cornfield, surrounded by more cornfields, surrounded by more cornfields.

One of my relatives is a farmer and I remember sitting on his porch and hearing absolutely nothing, nothing but corn. His neighbors grew corn, his neighbor’s neighbors grew corn. It was just, pure corn stalks. Everywhere.

No bugs chirping

No birds flapping

No squirrels running around

No cars on the road

No planes in the sky

Just wind through fucktons of corn. It was so surreal. It was the closest thing I’ve ever heard to total silence. It was like living in a barren wasteland but everything was green, with endless food. It was both chill and unsettling all at the same time.

Oh that’s clever, I’m keeping this one in my back pocket

What’s at the start of an era, twice in a generation, nowhere in an instant, but awaits you at the end of time?