i have found flagging and ignoring is better than complaining... the bots dislike those that point our the uselessness of llm.

Who is "us"?

Please don't leave us hanging; what makes you immune?

they are useful to those that enjoy wasting time.

Oh yeah? What value have they generated? How is it valuable to rehash existing data in a non-deterministic stream of nonsense?

Its not rehashing, its recombining and mixing any concept ever in minutes. If you cant find value in that you're not being creative enough

We use local models in data processing pipelines. Being able to do compute with language has plenty of use cases

I used Grok heavily to generate a 5min marketing video that got MP's to back my project.

So... go ahead. Try and claim Im lying. I pity you - I'm not lying.

Do I care about whether xAI/Grok survives as a going concern? Absolutely not. Did it generate value for me? Absolutely yes.

insider influence backed up by deniable narative is hardly a new idea(called a "fix"), though conflating that with AI having "value" is quite a stretch. AI is just another pivot point or prop, hookers, drugs, cash, blackmail, favors, etc will still,

trump, AI glossy slop.

so dear user, how does a non-deterministic black box of bullshit enhance cognition?

Just a simple test for people who believe this:

Step 1) read the article

Step 2) have a frontier AI model summarize the article

Step 3) find any 'bullshit' that it comes up with

Step 4) do it 5 more times in a row because obviously the non-determinism will make it say something different each time and it should bs you at least once since it's simply a bs machine anyways

Step 5) report your findings

It's so great here it's like a third world shit hole.

the hype machine knows no bounds. it should be illegal to publish such farcical claims when they are intended to manipulate markets...

Why wpuld anyone want to "learn" how to use some non-deterministic black box of bullshit that is frequently wrong? When you get different output fkr the same input, how do you learn? How is that beneficial? Why would you waste your time learning something that is frequently changing at the whims of some greedy third party? No thanks.

One of the things you can learn is how to get consistently useful results out of it despite it being a non-deterministic black box.

Because you will soon be working for it unless you learn to make it work for you.

It's fucking insane that we all have to pay rent every month to an AI company just to keep doing our jobs.

there is certainly a future where this isn't the case. Learning how to use AI and use it in your workflows will likely for sure be a part of any serious dev's future, but being beholden to a data center does not seem to reflect reality. Consider all the 5m-8m models and how powerful they are today compared to what the best models did 2 years ago. If you want to stay absolute bleeding edge model wise, sure you'll be stuck at a data center for some time...

Why isn't this just kinda seen as a repeat of the original birth of computers? Consider the IBM 350 (3.5mb) rented in the 50s for thousands per month. Now I have a drawer filled with SD cards that go up to 128gb that i cant even give away.

you literally don't have to. you can literally just keep doing your job the way that you always have.

I probably won't have a job for much longer if I do that, unfortunately

I don't think that is true.

To be clear I think AI coding agents are massively over hyped and turn code bases into unmaintainable buggy messes... I hate them.

But "leadership" everywhere has AI psychosis and at my company I expect I'd eventually be let go if I refused to use it.