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

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Pasteton

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So is it worth paying money to use any of this shit yet? I’m having a shit time trying to get ChatGPT to make a spreadsheet with any level of complexity to it like formulas or tabs with drop downs etc. it did a decent job just spitting out the basic stuff.
 

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So is it worth paying money to use any of this shit yet? I’m having a shit time trying to get ChatGPT to make a spreadsheet with any level of complexity to it like formulas or tabs with drop downs etc. it did a decent job just spitting out the basic stuff.
Can't speak for spreadsheets but Claude has been a generational leap in technology. I am using it to write nearly 100% of my code in production.
 

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So is it worth paying money to use any of this shit yet? I’m having a shit time trying to get ChatGPT to make a spreadsheet with any level of complexity to it like formulas or tabs with drop downs etc. it did a decent job just spitting out the basic stuff.
I have subs to OpenAI, Anthropic, and X/SuperGrok. All are amazing and incredibly useful. Can create just about anything.
 

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seems about right


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What does the subscription get you? I've been mostly using Gemini and I find it super useful but I don't know what I would want to pay for.
 

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I heard someone describe the current AI business model as "selling hundred dollar bills for a buck". I wonder how affordable it will be if this eventually shakes out into a couple of huge companies and the rest go bankrupt.
 

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What does the subscription get you? I've been mostly using Gemini and I find it super useful but I don't know what I would want to pay for.
For Claude you get access to the latest models and a varying amount of tokens. Now it becomes tokenomics.

Gemini is mostly fine but it's not in the same league of anthropic models. They are revolutionary.
 
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I heard someone describe the current AI business model as "selling hundred dollar bills for a buck". I wonder how affordable it will be if this eventually shakes out into a couple of huge companies and the rest go bankrupt.
Eh, I think that's all a marketing ploy. I'm sure the training is expensive, but I think the costs of actually running the models is overblown. The top open models may not be quite as good as Claude, but they're probably in the same ballpark of cost to run, and 3rd party providers offer then at a fraction of the cost. And the models are getting MUCH more efficient. I've posted it a few times before, but anyone with a good gaming pc can run a local model today better than Claude from a year ago.
 

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/airustledshowerthoughts
I get mad at the ai, and then I tell myself it's dumb to get mad at the ai since it's just a smart toaster. but I'd also get mad at the dumb toaster if it burnt my toast over and over for like 10 hours while assuring me each time that the next time will be the time that it fixes the burnt toast problem. (...obviously also mad at myself for burning 10 hours of toast, but that's clearly proper, so not much of a shower thought).
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How do you measure if you're too reliant on AI?

My boss made an offhand remark recently that he uses Claude to do everything. I think most people interpreted it to mean within the context of coding, but I've seen him use it to write performance reviews. That aside, he's a pretty smart guy, I'm not worried about his coding skills. I am worried about mine.

I have it write commit messages, MR descriptions, review code(mine and others), and all sorts of coding tasks from the simplest(add this option to the test system) to potentially much more complex(I have this problem, here's a log, how fix? ok, implement that fix). The simple coding tasks aren't much of a time saver, but I still use it so that it's part of the AI's memory when comes time to write commit messages and review code.

My only internal counterpoints is that it sucks at commenting and it's overly verbose by default. I have to tell it be very succinct and I still end up rewriting a lot of comments. For code reviews, I usually end up rejecting a third of the findings.
 
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