AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

Kung fu for when the built in gatling gun doesnt work?

Sanrith Descartes said:

It ain't the movies. Everyone runs out of ammo in real life.

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Of course, when the murderbots finally come, they won't need anything fancy like kung fu or even bullets.
I imagine something like this, only not retarded and moving faster than we can see.

Although by that point, they could probably more easily just fly by and headshot us all in our houses at speed like a RL aimbot. Plenty of room for ammo that way.

I just hope murderbots aren't the first type of bot we get to enjoy.

This is a month old so may have already been posted. Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

I haven't tried any of the "tools", but I have seen ai results to searches pop up. Really though they were just sifting through the usual garbage search results to find the meaty bits.

Kharzette said:

This is a month old so may have already been posted. Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

I haven't tried any of the "tools", but I have seen ai results to searches pop up. Really though they were just sifting through the usual garbage search results to find the meaty bits.

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I can't give that enough likes. Great fucking article.

I want to quote this part pre-emptively before our local "AI expert" shows up with exactly this objection:

1. “Well, if you just learned how to prompt properly, then you would be a 10x engineer like me.”
   Look at the data. There are no new 10xers. If there were — if the 14% of self-proclaimed AI 10xers were actually 10xers — that would more than double the worldwide output of new software. That didn’t happen. And as for you, personally, show me the 30 apps you created this year. I’m not entertaining this without receipts.

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His follow up post is good too.

It’s intermittent reinforcement (like gambling.) Occasionally it nails the prompt first try, which is genuinely impressive, mixed with many misses. You remember the jackpots and forget the hours of pumping in tokens.

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I thought this comment just absolutely nailed it, why does AI "feel" so impressive but fall so short in practice? This, right here.

Has anyone checked out Claude 4.5 Sonnet's "Imagine" feature? I thought it was pretty dang amazing, and it lends to the idea that, in the future, applications will be created on the fly based on the backend data. I'm a software developer and our product owner is hinting at wanting us to update our very old WebForms application to a new UI framework to visually match another product in our offering. I'm thinking this is a bad idea (basically I don't think they realize how massive of an effort this will be) and imo both products will be obsolete in a few years, UI-speaking, as I think the way we interact with computers and applications is going to change dramatically in just a few years.