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

Xerge said:

There will be a societal divide; can't use AI? get fucked. Got no AI sub? get fucked on, youre a loser.

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Something I think about sometimes is that it's very possible the technical people that smugly refuse to use AI today will grudgingly use it in the future and be more generally productive than people who signed up to pioneer AI slop.

rhinohelix said:

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.

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The certainty of organized and isolated backups is boring. The best backups are the accidental ones created out of laziness. Nuking the database is way more exciting when you only dig yourself out by pulling out that old dev box you've been meaning to scrap that happens to have a new enough backup of your database.

Tuco said:

Something I think about sometimes is that it's very possible the technical people that smugly refuse to use AI today will grudgingly use it in the future and be more generally productive than people who signed up to pioneer AI slop.

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I am this person. I have moved from refusing to use it to building multiple agents to prepare first drafts of work products normally crafted in PowerBI tools as a launch pad to completely replacing those PowerBI tools one day. Well-crafted AI, in some form, will become the interface at some point. There will of course still be hard coded apps forever but more and more it will be easier to make prompt interfaces for users. It's the next step in the Star Trek tech ladder. "Computer!"