yes, that’s exactly the point of everything I’ve said:
to an inexperienced user/developer/admin the output LLMs produce look perfectly valid, and for relatively trivial tasks they might even work out…but when it gets more specialized it fails spectacularly and it gets extremely obvious just how limited of a system it really is.
which is why there is so much pushback from professionals. actually that’s pretty much all professionals, not just in IT.
yeah, no… that’s not at all what i said.
i didn’t say “AI doesn’t work”, i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.
i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.
I’d much rather not use it, but it’s pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.
what absolutely doesn’t work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.
you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.
“what’s a common way to do this configuration?” works well enough.
“fix this config file for me!” doesn’t work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. …unless “there” is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here…) for proof…
no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.
it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn’t work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn’t.
LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.
they have no concept of actually making sense.
this is not an exception, or an improper use of the tech.
it’s an inherent, fundamental flaw.
here’s an example of an online calculator, in case anyone else faces similar problems:
https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/aspect-ratio-calculator.php
there’s a bunch out there, doesn’t matter much which one you use; it’s a simple way to calculate ratios, so you don’t need to do it by hand.
i like this one because of the “nearest standard resolution” hint!
ublock has the same function; it’s the thunderbolt icon, which let’s you just zap away whatever html element offends you!
…no fancy animation tho…is there a plugin that animates the ublock zapper? that would be very fun!
exactly!
using a “detector” is how (not all, but a lot of) AIs (LLMs, GenAI) are trained:
have one AI that’s a “student”, and one that’s a “teacher” and pit them against one another until the student fools the teacher nearly 100% of the time. this is what’s usually called “training” an AI.
one can do very funny things with this tech!
for anyone that wants to see this process in action, here’s a great example:
afaik, there actually aren’t any reliable tools for this.
the highest accuracy rate I’ve seen reported for “AI detectors” is somewhere around 60%; barely better than a random guess…
edit: i think that way for text/LLM, to be fair.
kinda doubt images are much better though…happy to hear otherwise, if there are better ones!
you can just run battlenet through steam:
a tiny bit of effort, but only required once. everything afterwards just works!
because it’s completely unsubstantiated bullshit?
why would anyone upvote “someone’s feelings” on a technical subject?
this is a technology we’re talking about: there is an objective right and wrong, feelings are irrelevant. especially when those feelings are completely baseless.
the better question is: why would anyone upvote this garbage?
similar suggestion to BlackAngels: RimWorld?
sounds like you’d enjoy top-down gameplay more than 1st person, so might be something to try!
pro tip: try the base game first. the DLC are all good, but none are required!
edit: RimWorlds’ mod scene is also just incredible (some would probably call it non-credible too XD); there’s Project RimFactory if you want a more factorio-like playthrough! (although, fair warning, RimFactory is pretty damn OP, up to you how much you abuse it…)
tesla/spaceX have literal teams whose only job it is to keep this moron from driving the company into the ground.
he’s an idiot.
i mean…not anymore!
space age added tons of content after the rocket launch!
in space age the goal is to travel to the edge of the solar system ;)
this is exactly it!
linux does have some issues, but it’s almost always a simple fix, and damn near never the OS’ fault.
so much better!
at least i only get mad at myself, which is much easier to deal with…
it’s a list, hence the comma separation.
this is standard grammar.
edit: also: modding games, mostly. plenty of tinkering around that needs a bunch of programs windows doesn’t like for various reasons. simple things like windows automatically inheriting permissions onto a drive that shouldn’t inherit any (and hasn’t actually inherited any at root level, so where the fuck did it get even get those from??), randomly changing access for nebulous reasons… there’s just sooo much nonsense to deal with under windows that i haven’t encountered even once under linux.
sure, I’ve had permissions issues, but at least those where my own fault! and fixing them was easy, transparent, and never reverted again for no reason.
i honestly no longer care to find out why windows was misbehaving (wasn’t malware, of that I’m sure. kept happening even on entirely new hardware), because I’ve just left that mess behind, and I’m never going back.
way, way better this way!
i spent waaaaaay more time fiddling around with drivers on windows than on linux.
in fact, it’s exactly infinitely more, because I’ve spent exactly ZERO seconds on any drivers on linux since switching to bazzite last year.
the amount of driver bullshit, the bullshit permissions shenanigans for modding, and just all around bullshit i had to deal with under windows has just, *poof!*, evaporated under linux!
shit actually just does exactly what you tell it to do!
no weird black magic running in the background that nobody’s entirely sure about how it works, no bullshit UAC child controls, no bullshit updates and anti-features you don’t want and never agreed to, no bullshit up-sells, no ads!
it’s fucking magical compared to windows! <3
P.S.:
although, i do use an AMD gpu…
…BUT i did recently plug a 3080 i got for cheap into my weekend rig at my parents’ place and that also just worked without any configuration required sooo…maybe bazzite is just better about Nvidia drivers than most distros? who knows, who cares, it just works!
i mean there’s also the fact that it’s been probably playing in the background for all of people’s childhoods and they eventually get nostalgic and drift towards that kind of music…
even if people don’t listen to it actively/all the time, it’s still pleasant to people, because they’re used to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oh hey, that’s great! thank you!
our admins are regularly straight up fighting against this bs!
“where the fuck has this fucked off to now?? it was right here last month?!”
so glad I’m not doing MS administration…
this is the part that’s really frustrating:
i sometimes feel forced to use chatGPT (duck.ai) to simply search for Microsoft things, because search engines only return SEO garbage with the exact same content spammed across like a million “tech tips for beginners” sites…and the docs, as established, are pretty useless…
keep in mind: i fucking hats “AI”.
making me use it makes me not have anything to do with whatever you’re selling.
it’s getting progressively more impossible to simply use MS products, because the information you need to use them is so hidden away!
combine those two things and ta-da: that’s why all my stuff at home is running linux now.
sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.
when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.
any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it’s consequences, which AIs can’t do, because they can’t absorb the context of the entire project.
look, I’m not saying you can’t use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.
I’m saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.
the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it’s some magical genie that can everything.