Just reviewing the code

I was warming up to this. It certainly is better than vibe coding, but I've started to see libraries [with this ai policy] push out bigger releases faster with bad ergonomics and unnecessary, undocumented breaking changes, because the ai quietly migrated the internal tests/examples.

Clearly, they're reviewing large amounts with an eye on new features and they're not thinking through ergonomics: spending time with it, writing it themselves, and seeing where the sticking points are.

Maybe if you're using ai for the migration, then-- problem avoided, for now. As time goes on I could see it compounding and becoming a tangled mess that's not only inaccessible to humans, but requires more and more compute to navigate than thoughtful, handcrafted code.

Dang. Their online filter bubble must be strong. Likely the kind of person who also doesn't care about surveillance capitalism because "it'll recommend good things to buy."

You'd be surprised. Data centers seem like a big issue. My boomer parents hate data centers, as do a lot of rural voters who have them nearby or proposals nearby. But to your point, I also see a lot of people who are aware of problems around ai/data centers/billionaires still using ai.

Used this all the time until I recently stumbled across the cli program units

Agreed. After a few watches, the lighting on her lower leg seems a lot brighter than the rest of the shot. Then when "her" foot is in frame it's not right. Are folks swiping through an infinite feed going to notice or look for that, though? Doubt it.

As for the power/environmental impact, for what they do LLMs are actually very low impact per-request.

Worth noting that a request is often dozens of requests now that there's "reasoning," even for search. As I understand it, a model will take a question , figure out the context (one request), reform the question so it yields better results (another request), if it's doing a web search there's requests for each result, another to compare, another to check if it answers the original request, if not it loops and does it all over again. So one request is easily, and often, dozens of requests. This is one way Ai companies can say to investors, "see, look at how much usage has increased."

Also, we need to factor in the power to scrape and train each of those models, build the datacenters which is near impossible as these companies are not transparent about it and actively try to obstruct investigations into it. Then there's the redundancy of all these different companies competing and doing roughly the same thing at the same time, as fast as they can, so it's orders of magnitude inefficient energy consuming before it gets its first user prompt.

Comparing it to other assaults on the environment is not only hard to do, but a case of "the worse negates the bad" fallacy.

I didn't say I believe it can do game dev. I just have deeper insight into VFX. From what I've heard about games, the industry is also suffering more from factors other than ai, but ai marketers and hypers are happy to take credit for an industry suffering.

I've seen impressive demos for ai animation and modeling, but there's a wide gulf between creating an impressive demo and replacing artists who can synthesize notes, industry knowledge and techniques, company and project-specific pipelines, workflows, and tools, and output something without visible flaws that, in the case of games, factors in hardware and software limitations. And to do that for less than an already underpaid workforce. As Cory Doctrow says, ai cannot do your job, the ai-salesmen just have to convince your boss it can.

I think the tools will eventually find-cost effective ways to support production, but I maintain I don't see it replacing these industries, and saying so is carrying a torch for ai marketers.

Ai replacing VFX is still ai marketing as far as I've seen. The US vfx market is in a slump because of outsourcing, and streaming platforms that don't need to produce blockbusters to keep people watching and paying. Ai for vfx only works on social media where one succeeds by capturing attention as quickly as possible, and it doesn't matter if there's 5 fingers if it drives more engagement.

Reminds me of a quote I just read:

The system is responsible in proportion to the degree that the people who make the decisions bear the consequences.

- Charlie Munger summarizing Charlie Frankel summarizing the 2008 financial crisis.

+1 for SP. Started using it recently. It's okay. Beat out other ones I was considering. Not blown away, but functional. Can sync it using webdav.

Could be an issue if sleep masks became useless due to glowing eyelids.

Came here to see my helix fam, was not disappointed.