Tools like Siri and Alexa are over 12 years old and while they weren’t based on LLMs its a clear indication that this kind of virtual assistant is not going away
And AI Agents and real LLMs are pushing 4 years now
You think you’re being clever but you’re just setting yourself up for failure
Good luck I guess… but in 5 years you don’t get to say nobody told you. So, take this time now to learn or end up being the new-age version of one of those people who don’t know how to open a PDF
I’m telling you right now, AI is not going anywhere and AI agents are everywhere
I’m just trying to explain to you that while your experience with AI appears to just be people making shitty TikTok videos or whatever, in reality AI Agents are a new way to use your computer and it’s not going to go away
Maybe you’re too young to know this, but in the early 2000s we had all of our music on our computer. Literal music files. And it was a big deal to keep it organized. So if you had 200,000 songs you would want to make sure they were all in folders by artist or just straight up named {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} so you could find what you wanted to listen to quickly
But music files had no guaranteed naming convention so everyone just did what they thought was best and when you ripped a song off a CD or downloaded it off the internet the naming convention could be anything. So we spent hours renaming songs and filling out details, adding album artwork, etc… so that everything looked the way we wanted in our preferred music playing app like ITunes.
You know, when the song played, the right image showed up, it had the right star rating, the genre was correctly flagged, etc…
If AI Agents had existed back then, renaming all 200,000 songs to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} would be literally as easy as going into your Agent and typing
“Please rename all of my music files in c:\users\myuser\music to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName}”
And that’s it… the Agent, because it knows every song by every artist, can figure out what every file in that folder is and what the name is suppose to be; and then it will actually rename the files for you, successfully
No business is looking at that kind of technology and saying, “this is dumb”.
I never said it was the next virtual boy, it’s the current virtual boy. Make sure that you remember all your claims, too, buddy. It’s going to be fun to look back at your stupidity in five years when the bubble has popped. You’re far from the first person to be overly proud of a failure.
Again, just silly
The Virtual Boy didn’t even last a year.
Tools like Siri and Alexa are over 12 years old and while they weren’t based on LLMs its a clear indication that this kind of virtual assistant is not going away
And AI Agents and real LLMs are pushing 4 years now
You think you’re being clever but you’re just setting yourself up for failure
Hey, remember that time I called you a shill?
Good luck I guess… but in 5 years you don’t get to say nobody told you. So, take this time now to learn or end up being the new-age version of one of those people who don’t know how to open a PDF
I’m telling you right now, AI is not going anywhere and AI agents are everywhere
Fuck, you’re hardcore about this, do you suck your boss’s dick, Company Man?
I’m just trying to explain to you that while your experience with AI appears to just be people making shitty TikTok videos or whatever, in reality AI Agents are a new way to use your computer and it’s not going to go away
Maybe you’re too young to know this, but in the early 2000s we had all of our music on our computer. Literal music files. And it was a big deal to keep it organized. So if you had 200,000 songs you would want to make sure they were all in folders by artist or just straight up named {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} so you could find what you wanted to listen to quickly
But music files had no guaranteed naming convention so everyone just did what they thought was best and when you ripped a song off a CD or downloaded it off the internet the naming convention could be anything. So we spent hours renaming songs and filling out details, adding album artwork, etc… so that everything looked the way we wanted in our preferred music playing app like ITunes.
You know, when the song played, the right image showed up, it had the right star rating, the genre was correctly flagged, etc…
If AI Agents had existed back then, renaming all 200,000 songs to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} would be literally as easy as going into your Agent and typing
“Please rename all of my music files in c:\users\myuser\music to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName}”
And that’s it… the Agent, because it knows every song by every artist, can figure out what every file in that folder is and what the name is suppose to be; and then it will actually rename the files for you, successfully
No business is looking at that kind of technology and saying, “this is dumb”.
So, yes?
Just really driving home how fucking stupid it was to claim AI was the next Virtual Boy
I want you to remember this so you can spend the next years of your life knowing just how foolish it was to say that
I never said it was the next virtual boy, it’s the current virtual boy. Make sure that you remember all your claims, too, buddy. It’s going to be fun to look back at your stupidity in five years when the bubble has popped. You’re far from the first person to be overly proud of a failure.