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  • They are a useful tool when you understand their shortcomings. They are very inconsistent, so you need to put a lot of guardrails around them.

    I don’t really understand how people manage to be productive with swarms of agents. They really need to be babysat IME. I’m constantly waffling between arriving at correct solutions quickly and getting stuck in a tar pit of hallucinated problems and fake analysis.

    That said, I’ll be upset when the AI companies inevitably start raising prices or nerfing models.











  • Why deleted? This was a good rebuttal.

    EDIT: I don’t think the comment really violated rule 1, but there was apparently a followup comment that definitely did, and this one just got removed by association. Here’s a very slightly paraphrased version of it that should not break the rules:

    Gish gallop of [explitive].

    A) overblown, and that argues for cleaner power, better cooling, and more efficient models

    B) regulation failure

    C) incorrect, they have made discoveries that humans have been unable to. All human knowledge is built off previous knowledge.

    D) the enemy is both weak and strong. If they don’t produce anything good then the people who are losing their jobs can’t have either, right?

    E) small study based on one task which people are misrepresenting. The actual evidence shows it makes people smarter as they shift priorities.

    F) only for vulnerable people. Better safeguards are needed for the weak minded.

    G) argument against using people’s likeness not ai

    H) use an open source Chinese model

    I) market distortion problem, not a principled reason no one should use the technology any more than GPU shortages made all graphics work illegitimate.

    J) see (H)

    K) try one argument next time. Your best one, [some snarky sarcasm]