Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Back to the mines

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We’ve been accepting ‘good enough’ since forever.
That’s why McDreck manages to survive while actual places that know how to make tasty fries are going under …

‘AI’ simply the latest iteration in this eternal quest for low effort maximum profit production.

(and I refuse to call any of this ‘AI’ … there’s nothing intelligent in there. It simply is a freakishly fast search engine IMHO)

It can work brilliantly for code, but that’s because code has syntax that can’t be messed with.
However because thse things don’t understand what they’re producing that doesn’t mean they will produce code that can be maintained. long term and it relies on someone somewhere solving the problem first …

I’ve used Github co-pilot .. and it really takes ‘intellisense’ in Visual Studio to the next level. When you use it in incremental bits it does make writing code faster and more efficient.

As such it is great as an advanced templating tool, but it can’t replace actual humans no matter what the marketing droids say.

(if anything it will replace marketing droids and models … as that’s a job where hallucinating answers won’t cause any problems whatsoever.)

It’s also a hell of a lot better than search engines these days, but that’s also because Google results are flooded with generated nontent and ads. I get better results from talking to Claude.AI as opposed to Googling, which is ironic as that’s kind of how Google became great …

Outsourcing killed what little engineering knowledge we had.
‘AI’ will eliminate the rest.

‘Idiocracy’ is a scarily accurate prediction of the USA in a few years if they don’t find a way to stop the orange cheetoh and is fellow morons before they can do more damage.

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Anyway … back to hobby.
Use ‘AI’ responsibly and all will be ok.
I’m sceptical when it comes to ‘AI’, but I see opportunities for it to help us with some of the less interesting/boring aspects within our hobby as well.

Asking it to generate an army list is fun, no matter what anyone else says .

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/95ca4510-5b8b-4e9f-a4a5-343445230a82
There were a few negative comments when I posted this on the Blood&Bayonets discord channel.
I like that it managed to generate something that sounded similar to something I had in mind myself.
The only problem is that I can’t verify if it is any good, because I lack knowlledge about the setting and the rules have yet to be released.