Do you use AI tools at all? I am slightly astonished someone makes these sorts o...

fumeux_fume · 2025-05-03T16:56:19 1746291379

> AI has been remarkably useful for many many things across many industries

This is really a statement of faith more than a statement of fact. I think you and many others believe this to be true without much concrete evidence. For work, I help companies adopt AI driven solutions. Sometimes it makes things a little better, sometimes it makes things worse. I've yet to see a project use LLMs in the transformative way that many AI optimists put forward. Don't get me wrong, I find tools like Claude and ChatGPT to be fascinating and useful for looking up all kinds of information. I can't really say if we're just scratching the surface or if we've dug ourselves into rut with the present state of LLMs. The firsthand evidence I've seen and verified points more to the latter, but things are changing fast in this area. I'm excited to see what's around the corner.

pwndByDeath · 2025-05-03T16:22:52 1746289372

Simple google searches did this too, it still takes an true intelligence to apply it. At best its a ridiculously inefficient search engine that sits atop the million corpses of failed models

parpfish · 2025-05-03T16:22:33 1746289353

Not OP, but I use AI tools and sometimes it’s great, sometimes they’ll distractingly lead you in circles, and other times they completely shit the bed.

Luckily, I’m using AI tools to do things that I am capable of doing without AI so I can tell which path I’m going down pretty quickly.

So, letting experts augment their skills with AI is something that can work depending on the specific task. The nice thing is that an expert is able to see errors pretty quickly and determine that this task is a mismatch for the AI.

The problem is that AI is being sold as a magic solution so people never need to develop expertise in the first place. Blind trust in a system that is often confidently incorrect will lead to problems