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
This is a tough one because on one hand I’m old school I like to own physical things. Going to the music store and looking at, and then buying, CDs was my favorite. I like my CD and BluRay collection
On the other hand, it’s a waste of money and material to make a physical copy of something you can sell digitally. Plus you got to package it, ship it, etc…
It’s better for the environment if we don’t make physical products
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
This is just silly
All of this is actually happening and it’s not even brand new. I guess it’s new to you, but some of us have been using these tools for years now.
If you’re an older adult in a blue collar field you might be able to get away with spending your life thinking it’s a stupid toy, but if you’re young you might want to pay attention because real soon you’re going to enter a work force where people are going to expect you to understand how these tools work
Because while everyone is assuming this is a tweet by just some guy who keeps running into Americans at the Pub who tell him about how great life is after moving, in reality he’s a business owner making a sales pitch
Knowing it’s a sales pitch, do you still believe he regularly runs into Americans who moved to Italy? Or do you think maybe he’s just making that up to try to sell his business to Americans?
That’s choice is up to you I guess, but at least now you know
Sure but… does he keep meeting Americans that moved and didn’t know life could be that way though?
More than one thing can be true at a time but while this reads like just some guy who keeps going to the local pub and meeting Americans who talk about how great life is after moving, in reality he’s a business man making a sales pitch.
It’s kind of working too. The amount of people here who didn’t think to research who this guy is and just took his word for it is… something.
I’m not saying the guy is a grifter, I don’t know. I don’t know if he’s right or wrong. My point is to make people aware this is a sales pitch not a genuine observation. And it’s a sales pitch by a “spiritual guru”, for what that’s worth
Personally, the US is a big place and so culture varies state-to-state. Where I live, people don’t ask you what you do for a living when you first meet them
This guy is a weird spiritual business guru. This post isn’t an observation on modern American life, it’s one of his many posts that try to sell you on his business where he claims that he can teach you how to monetize your passions and not have to actually work
I don’t know if you’re a teenager or something that thinks AI is only used to help people cheat on tests; or…
if you’re an adult that has a blue collar job where AI is basically just a glorified search engine, but…
for the rest of us it’s an integral part of our daily office lives; especially in software
During our morning meetings Claude acts like a secretary. It takes notes during the meeting and emails us all those notes when the meeting is over and during the meeting, if we want something done, we just verbally ask it to do something as if it were a real person. It can make tasks, send emails, add items to our calendars, send us reminders later in the day, etc…
Claude-Code is an app you install on your computer that, should you give it access, can literally alter files on your computer. So it helps us literally write code. Not only can it write code, it can read and review it as well. Searching for bugs, logic errors, etc… and that’s exactly what we have it do. Every time someone pushes code, Claude reviews it. Two other humans also have to review the code, but Claude always reviews everything first
And since Claude can execute commands, it can launch and use apps. So Claude not only writes our unit tests, it runs them too; and not just unit tests. Claude can literally use our application like a real human would, so we have Claude do that too
For sales and marketing, Claude does data analytics.
Nobody is going to just wake up and say, “nah, all that sucks. Get rid of it”
“freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence”
Here in my part of the US we do build with shops outside of neighborhoods. The problem is that these shops are rarely prime real estate so the stores that move in are rarely something you want to walk to
For example, outside my neighborhood now is
A convenience store, A dry cleaners, a sports bar, a military surplus store, an office for a business that builds floating docks, a tow truck company, some kind of repair shop for hydraulics, a Wendy’s, a burger king, and a bait-and-tackle store
Except not all of that is on my side of the street. If you left my neighborhood and went north you would run into the stores. Then there is a road, some more stores, and then another neighborhood. But that road between the two lines of stores is a major road. 8 lanes where I am. (8 lanes all-together. 4 east, 4 west)
So yeah, I could walk to the sports bar because it is close, but also I have to cross 8 lanes of traffic. And the other neighborhood could walk to the convenience store, but they also have to cross 8 lanes of traffic
On paper it’s ideal. In reality not so much
Sometimes you luck out and you’ll get a mom-and-pop sandwich shop or a small grocery store or something, but most of the time it’s dance studios or a place to buy used vacuum cleaners. Just random, lower-rent shit.
If you keep walking you can find more useful things. There’s a Starbucks and a doughnut shop close by. If I wanted to ride my bike there is a grocery store… but that just means crossing more main roads. Not 8 lanes, but still. Not 2 lanes with 25mph traffic either. It’s like 45mph 4-lane roads
And of course this is more difficult if you have kids. I’m not sure I’d feel safe riding my bike to the store with my young child. So if we need to go to the store, or even the playground, we drive. It’s not that it’s so far we can’t walk, it’s that the walk is sketchy
If you want to walk and shop, we have places built specifically for that. You drive there, park, get out, and then the next like 4 or 8 blocks or whatever is designed just to be for walking and shopping.
It’s not an easily fixable problem through. Unless you’re going to tear down a bunch of houses this is just kind of how it is
Then again, with everything costing $1000, I’m not sure who’s walking to buy anything. I do well for myself but I’m still not going to walk to a sports bar regularly and buy a $9 hamburger and spend $7 on drinks. So really, I don’t even care anymore.
If you did it for free, what boss is replacing you?
Why can’t you just keep doing it?
They’re not idiots though
While there arguments about the value of the companies making the AI agents, the fear of real humans being replaced by AI agents in the work force, and the environmental concerns of the data centers… the AI itself is an immensely helpful, and immensely powerful tool that is definitely not a fad that is going to disappear and definitely not used just by idiots
Here’s an article about AI being trained look at X-Rays and successfully diagnosing 11 patients with early breast cancer that was missed by the human Doctors
GWAR concerts are always rad. The music is second to the actual show
But you will get covered in fake blood (it’s pretty much just water) so wear a white shirt and if it’s cold outside, bring a change for the car
why do I give a fuck what Mushroom said? Why is there always an extra, un-needed comment in these images?
Also, I don’t watch UFC so I didn’t know this. That’s fucked up, how is he not in prison?
I said you can hate it all you want, but also it’s not going anywhere and in 20 years people are going to look back at posts like yours and laugh
It’s definitely not The Virtual Boy
Seen them during the first election
They killed Hillary, Trump, and Bernie
Trump was naked and wearing a cartoon sack of money for clothes, Hillary was sick and kept vomiting blood, and Bernie was old, died first, and came back as a mutated super monster that tried to eat everyone and had to be killed
The story, if you can call it that, was that Gwar were running for president of the universe and the only way to win was to kill your competition
For me personally? Software
It’s not aggressive, If you would read it you would see all I did was explain how it does what you claimed it can’t do
What part am I lying about?
Can AI not write code? Can it not read and write files on you computer? Can it not use Powershell or execute command line prompts? Does Text-To-Speech not exist?
You’ve had Seri for years, you think that’s just going to vanish now?
Have you not used Google or Bing recently? You get an AI overview at the top of almost every search now
“I didn’t read what you wrote but I know you’re wrong”
But yeah, you’re totally a super smart AI guy and we should all listen to you. I mean, you’re too lazy to read a few paragraphs on a web forum but you’ve definitely taken the time to study up on all the things AI is currently doing in the business world
Seems legit to me
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”.