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

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I am completely blown away by Claude Cowork. From this simple prompt it finds the 'Pets' thread and gives a nice pet description, including context. It uses a background browser and does actual mouse clicks to navigate and take screenshots. So far it successfully did everything I've thrown at it. I gave it my LinkedIn profile and asked it to find relevant jobs and write PDF applications. It did it perfectly and created some excellent applications.

In the last section it says Mahes also posted a photo of his mom (who was also quite fluffy). I am assuming it refers to the cats mom.

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Khane said:
Redundancy between data centers is a backup, very literally... did you mean to phrase this another way?
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In ITIL terms, no one ever refers to a live copy of data on an active server, whether its on a passive server in an Active/passive pair, or a HA set of servers in another DC where the data is being synced or changed as a "backup". A backup is something physically or logically separated from production changes that can be restored in full or part if need be. I mean, it goes deeper than that but just having another set of servers somewhere doesn't count, and depending on the way they are being synced might also be affected.
 
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rhinohelix said:
In ITIL terms, no one ever refers to a live copy of data on an active server, whether its on a passive server in an Active/passive pair, or a HA set of servers in another DC where the data is being synced or changed as a "backup". A backup is something physically or logically separated from production changes that can be restored in full or part if need be. I mean, it goes deeper than that but just having another set of servers somewhere doesn't count, and depending on the way they are being synced might also be affected.
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How many times can one contradict themselves in one paragraph? This isn't even really your fault. I blame the nebulous, dubious language that has steered technology "paradigms" over the last 30 years.

"It's not wifi! It's mesh! It's totally different!"
 
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Khane said:
Meanwhile, since ~2004 you could just set a reminder yourself on your cell phone in about 10 seconds total.

The things people waste electricity and compute on with AI is a thing of beauty.
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This is true, and I get it. I tend to be forgetful and dislike managing the minutiae of life. It’s as much just fucking around to see what I can get working and what will actually be helpful so I can spend more time with family/friends/etc.

weird stuff like the screenshot along the way is just entertaining.
 
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This is true, and I get it. I tend to be forgetful and dislike managing the minutiae of life. It’s as much just fucking around to see what I can get working and what will actually be helpful so I can spend more time with family/friends/etc.

weird stuff like the screenshot along the way is just entertaining.
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I guess the point I'm trying to make is people use AI in the wrong way to try and simplify their lives. It's like AI makes them forget how anything and everything works.

So using that example, prompting AI to do this type of thing can be efficient and a time saver. However people prompt and direct the AI in exactly the manner your screenshot depicted instead of how they SHOULD be prompting it.

Which is:

Add this item/event/occurence to my calendar app on this date and at this time. Add this note/description to the event. Set a reminder for it 1 week prior, 1 day prior, and 1 hour prior.

It really is that simple and wastes far less time, compute and actual mental AND physical, tangible energy (electricity) by just giving it actual, discernible tasks. And it fucks it up way less.

Telling it to just remind you will almost always result in it trying to create some funky script with its own reminder logic that may or may not fire, versus just having it add a task to something that is a known entity, works and does exactly what you want it to do.
 
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How many times can one contradict themselves in one paragraph? This isn't even really your fault. I blame the nebulous, dubious language that has steered technology "paradigms" over the last 30 years.

"It's not wifi! It's mesh! It's totally different!"
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Dude.
There is literally nothing contradictory in what I wrote. If you don't understand what a backup is or is supposed to be, no worries. Not colloquially, like "I got a spare" but actual recoverable data from a fixed point in the past. Production data, or data that can be changed in a live environment, isn't a backup. A backup is something physically/logically distinct from production data. Even a standby database, if its being synced with live data to be used for recovery, isn't a backup. That can be Redundancy or Recovery or High Availability, and all those terms mean specific, different things but none of them are backups. They have consequential meaning in enterprise IT, like getting your business back up and running and losing millions of dollars or not.

I am not as involved in the day-to-day management as I was in when I was in DC/Service Delivery but we used to back up critical systems to physical media, keep x number of days onsite, and then rotate some offsite to storage at Iron Mountain. I know Cloud storage is much more ubiquitous now but my career moved in a different direction so I don't spend as much time on that part of landscapes these days. 3-2-1 was and is the Iron rule of backups.

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If you google "ITIL definition of a backup" you mostly find folks working from the ITIL v3 framework. They are on v5 now but things like that never change.
 
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