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Rant about AI

Valeria on February 28, 2025

Cover image for this post is generated by Mistral AI / Le Chat. It’s an awesome image: it depicts two cute kittens wearing cute clothes with their ...
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Anmol Baranwal

Whenever I want my text to sounds soulless .. I use AI 😂

I've said it too many times.. ai destroys personality, people don't care if there is a little grammatical mistake in your response but they will as soon as you put the cringe ai text.

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Shrijal Acharya

Exactly! ✅ We share the same thought, Anmol!

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Andrey Rusev

This post has NOT been reviewed or edited by an AI

... which is why it's a nice post! :)

Anyway, just wanted to say that I also think AI doesn't really deliver much ... I mean - nothing even close to how it's advertised. :) I think the latter ("how it's advertised") is the typical Silicon Valley way of pumping Wall Street stock prices... But that's a different topic :)

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Valeria

Thank you! Exactly!
I’m sure there’s use for AI and I hope it’ll find its niche eventually. Just so damn tired of all the baseless hype

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Cesar Aguirre • Edited

there’s no AI yet that would go to a meeting, gather requirements, calm stakeholders down and come back to building a new feature

Exactly! If somebody else write specs and we only turn those specs into code, we're out of business sooner than later. AI will eat us alive.

Oh those cute cats on the cover, who will resist to open your post :)

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Valeria

Catbait😎

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Assis Zang

Can I send this post to, like, everyone I know and those I don't know yet? 😅

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Valeria

Haha! Thank you 🫶

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Alex Escalante

Haha... I just published my own rant about a tool that creates images.

But to be honest: I do use ChatGPT a lot in my everyday work, to learn, summarize and even clean and correct my own writing. I do have to write a lot, so it is very helpful.

What I do is this: I decide how much of my own style I need in the text I am writing. When I am writing commercial copy, corporate or technical communication, clarity is more important that style. At least to me.

If I am writing something more close to me, particularly in english, which is my second language, I might tell ChatGPT to "clean up" my writing, preserving my style. It works very well!

If I write in Spanish, again, I could use it for commercial purposes. I very seldom use it for my personal writings.

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Arron

Perfectly captures how a lot of people feel about AI (including me). The hype train's slowing down and AI is nowhere near good enough, or reliable enough, to do what people were thought it could a few years ago. If we do indeed reach AGI or an AI that can work as a fully autonomous engineer - it's a matter of decades away, not years, I think.

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Hannah Hailu Muthoni

I was having this exact discussion with my brother the other day (we're both devs). I had just finished working on a model that performs contract analysis, practically the same thing that the average Joe would need a lawyer for. Yet some lawyers were telling my brother how his job would be made obsolete by AI. And we couldn't help thinking that their job would be more at stake (if I could get the bugs out for crying out loud) than mine. Yet no matter how proud I was of my creation, I would still trust a lawyer to draft a contract more than I would AI. We will always need humans. In the 80s and 90s they said office jobs would be made obsolete by computers, only for computers to increase the need for office workers and I feel we're on a similar precipice with AI (though, obviously, not as close as tech bros want to make us think we are).

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Malik Jabbar

The post critiques the current state of AI, highlighting its strengths in automation and efficiency while emphasizing its limitations in creativity, problem-solving, and human interaction. It challenges the hype around AGI, calling for transparency and continued investment in human talent rather than blind reliance on AI.

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Valeria

And this comment has been generated by AI I presume? 🤗