people don’t want to be intellectual because its depressing and alienating to be smart around a bunch of dumb people

This sounds like a cope someone would come up with to explain why they watch Joe Rogan.

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

Not sure if you're trolling, or have been living under a rock. This new controller is the same as the Steam Deck layout, which has been extremely successful and well received.

I've had mine not since launch, but for many years. I use it occasionally, mostly as a curiosity, but can't reliably get used to it long term. Do you play many action games with it? I find 3D camera controls are too awkward for me.

The concern isn't about the download, it's about the power it uses during local inferencing.

Anyone here remember when Raspberry Pis were affordable? Good times.

Are you even reading the criticisms people are making, or just asking an LLM to generate responses for you? Or have you developed brain damage as a result of so much LLM usage? Those are the most charitable explanations for your behavior here, because you seem to be incapable of understanding the criticisms. This has nothing to do with "effort".

When I said you should seek a mental health professional, that wasn't a joke. Some people might say that as a joke, but I wasn't. AI psychosis is a serious thing we don't fully understand yet. From my perspective, you're just an annoying Lemmy user/possible troll, which is easy to ignore. But if you're not just trolling, then you're probably damaging your health and/or relationships for a very stupid reason.

i generally think i do well.

What are some of your engineering or research accomplishments? Where is your linkedin or github profile showing projects before ~2022?

i worked with cryptography long before AI

What kind of work did you do with cryptography? It couldn't have been much if you don't see what's wrong with what you're doing. "I set up LetsEncrypt on a web server" doesn't count as experience.

Any answer you provide to these questions are worthless unless you're willing to reveal your identity here. That's the only way to build any credibility, and without credibility nobody should trust you with something like this.

this is something i work on because its enjoyable to me

No, this is something you're working on because you're hoping to make money from it. I remember you posting about this project some months ago and you mentioned as much. If it isn't AI psychosis, then it's a grift and you're a snake oil salesman. Idk what you're expecting to hear? This is a programming community; it's probably the last place you'll get positive feedback for this obvious trainwreck.

I think you need to speak to a mental health specialist, because AI psychosis can be really destructive. We all have problems, but using chat bots to make us feel better is dangerous for you and those around you, even if it feels good in the moment. These bots are designed to tell you exactly what you want to hear so that you become addicted to them.

I'm going to guess you didn't accomplish much as a software engineer before AI? The personal deficiencies at the core of that are still there even if you use AI to tell you otherwise. I won't speculate what those deficiencies are, but I just want you to engage in some honest introspection. Absolutely nobody will trust someone like you to handle such a sensitive topic like cryptography. Stop wasting your short time on this earth on something so stupid. Go make literally anything else.

Sure, but the path of college->career is much easier to take when you're a young kid straight out of high school. Everyone I knew who "took a gap year" only ever managed to complete an associates degree (and way later), whereas most people who went straight to college did a full bachelors in the typical 4 years. Many (not all ofc) even did internships and had job offers while in their final year.

Student loans are predatory, but even though I don't have any data to back it up, I do think they're worth it if you actually finish your degree. The main mistake is to go to one of those expensive private schools. Even with rich parents paying it all, those are a rip off. The only value is networking potential (since most students have rich parents too), but the value of that tends to be overstated IMO

Your parent has no idea what they're talking about. This is what happens when AI companies are given more money than they know what to do with; their marketing gets more and more unhinged, and eventually leaks out to the laymen.

I guess what might help you convince them is some perspective. It's true that LLMs can generate code, but what a laymen doesn't see is that the code they generate is in a language built by humans, using frameworks and tools built by humans, running on platforms built by humans, and distributed through infrastructure built by humans. Additionally, LLMs themselves are built by humans.

Could all of that be AI generated too? No. Anthropic already tried to build a browser and a compiler with Claude recently, and both projects failed spectacularly. The transformer model powering current LLMs has hit a wall; advancements have slowed down significantly in recent years, and the only thing that will get things going is another breakthrough. You're better off gambling your tuition at a casino than betting we'll have a breakthrough within 7 years (or worse, predicting the impact it will have on job markets)

And of course, the idea that an administrative role is safe is silly. There are already experiments to have LLMs run physical businesses on their own. If I had to make a prediction, I'd say business roles are much easier for an LLM to completely replace than engineering.

And finally, the bubble. LLMs today are affordable because of a frenzied market of degenerate gamblers; when the bubble pops (which will happen within 7 years), these AI companies will be forced to restructure or die. Anthropic charges $200/mo for their top models, and that has rate limits that people hit regularly. If Anthropic can't afford unmetered access at $200/mo while they're swimming in cash, then there's no way in hell those prices don't explode post-bubble. I'm not saying AI companies will die, but you and I aren't going to be able to use them.

Like @Newsteinleo@infosec.pub said, don't let them decide this for you. If they won't help pay your tuition, then get your own student loans, and go to a public university to save money.

Imagine you're having a conversation with a stranger. He seems cool, you guys share some interests, even some controversial opinions. You two are on track to becoming friends! ...But then right before the convo ends, he starts talking about how the earth is flat, and flouride in the water supply is a CIA conspiracy to make frogs gay.

That is the same visceral reaction I get when I read a sentence like this:

When I last wrote about my experience with CachyOS, I bemoaned the absence of the Arc browser.