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Comment Will reduce capable human programmers (Score 2) 101

AI has been so useful to non-programmers or those with limited understanding like myself because asking programmers at the office to help you is nearly impossible since they have more important tasks to deal with than you're little script needs.
So now we just ask the AI to either review your own code or create it based on details you feed it and voila!
That's the future most are looking at I think. People who understand just enough to tell the AI what to code but not be able to make complex programs themselves. I believe it's called vibe programming.
But I look at the flipside mentioned here for real coders. If the AI is doing all the work. I can't imagine coders remain as good at coding in the long term if reading and validating the lines is all they do during the day and don't work their brains on complex problems.
This can't be good to keep people's interest or even creativity.
Somewhere in the near future, who's going to improve the AI if good human coders become near extinct breed? Is AI going to improve itself? This can't be a good thing.

Comment A good thing (Score 2) 33

While a human lawyer is by far preferable. How many are unable to defend themselves from lack of funds because the cost of lawyers is way to much.
In my area, 250 per hour is the normal fee for a subpar lawyer and in many situations, the retainer alone is thousands of dollars. Not something that many can afford.
My hope is that this will eventually pressure real lawyers to bring their prices back down to the average joe's ability to pay or find themselves losing clients to AI not because they are better but because the cost of a real lawyer does not reflex what people are able to pay and if these AI lawyers end up winning a lot of cases then real lawyers better start worrying about their own careers because once the dependence on human lawyers is broken, they may find it impossible to get it back.

Comment Re:And I say... (Score 1) 100

Hear hear.
Most people just hear that B is opposed to idea from A to save (insert cause here) but doesn't want to hear what said reason is regardless of if reason is good or not.
And they think the other side is stupid while putting their fingers in their ears and screaming lalala all the time to avoid hearing those points even when explained calmly and with data to back it up.
Point may or may not be good but ignoring them doesn't advance any cause.

Comment In the end it doesn't even matter (Score 3, Insightful) 11

The real losers are the coders and I don't mean in the sense of job loss. I mean in the sense that they will see their competence drop as they no longer retain all manners of code tricks and obscure APIs to pull the most out of the hardware. I don't care how good AI is at coding, it doesn't have the drive create of its own and I suspect that while code quality and legibility will increase but creative ways to program will plummet.

Maybe someone will tell me I'm wrong about the latter but for the former, it's gonna happen.

Comment Paywall barrier (Score 2) 137

You have to pay to watch the content and there aren't enough viewers to make word of mouth plausible. I heard that Amazon decided to make their content available to all other networks to purchase after a certain amount of time was passed so that people can view it elsewhere. Their Rings of Power season one was playing on Samsung's channels at one point I noticed. I think that's one way to gather interet and offset the cost.

Comment Don't care why they're behind. (Score 1) 82

They just are behind period. I was late to start using Gemini because Canada was blocked initially so I got exposed much later then some here I'm sure and the results of how it programs are horrible to the point I gave up. Not going to try again anytime soon if ever. What does it matter to me the how and why they are behind? They deployed a shoddy product in the end.

Comment Not just about lack of change (Score 1) 99

Lenovo are among the more reliable. While not as durable as the one IBM used to make as they got slimmer over the years, they can still survive a lot of punishment.
Dell a few years ago had huge failure rates where I had a dozen DOA.
I had only one with HP. And while HP was great at some points they had a lot of morphing in their Elitebook products compared to Lenovo.
I never had one failure on arrival with Lenovo in my experience.
I've also always liked the customer support when calling in issues with Lenovo while Dell has been among the worst experiences.

Comment Re:May need to give it away (Score 1) 11

Yes I have been using ChatGPT for coding sinple stuff like Powershell and Python scripts. I appreciated it's ability to clean up and help me improve code.
I tried to do the same with Gemini and when it hit a barrier, I put the code over to ChatGPT that was able to figure out what eluded Gemini. Not good when one A.I has to be used to correct another one.

Comment May need to give it away (Score 1) 11

They may have something better than ChatGPT 4o but the free version was horrible compared to the GPT3.5 so I stopped trying to use it.
I don't feel an incentive to pay to try their 'better' production.

At this point Google would have to pay me to use their shoddy software. I'm banking on Gemini to end up in the Google graveyard.

Comment Coldfusion talks about these A.I. and lawsuits (Score 1) 42

Even though they knew that there would be lawsuits, investors still gave money to develop these A.I so it seems that the lawsuit won't stop this much like a dam can't stop a Sunami. I'll link this Coldfusion video that explains this amongs other things of these A.I and is from the perspective of a technology and music enthuasist. I am finding this to be one of my favorite channels these days.

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