This Instant And Moment - 2025!

Throrik said:
Again, I'll believe it when I see it, it's just a cycle of off shoring, on-shoring and now adding LLMs into the mix - all these gung-ho big shots saying they'll get rid of all developers are already trying it and failing etc.

I'll worry when a PMO can write a detailed brief and scenarios and 'AI' can do something which works, meets goals and isn't a miss-mash of code a 5 year old could write. It's nothing to do with 'AI' being better, it's big corps trying to sell AI as it's the buzzword and they want to make their shareholders richer.

Just like self-service tills were supposed to make checkout people extinct and self-driving was going to make HGV Drivers extinct I still see a lot of those around.

What I think we'll see is less open-ness and more things privatised in terms of access so that LLMs can't scrape things. That and AI is mega-expensive, and all of the big AI superpowers will need to start making profit at some point.
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Mind you some stuff the next generation of AI is going to be crazy - I've been spending far too much time playing about with Suno AI music generation, despite the flaws it is also possible of some really advanced stuff and the next major iteration of it will be something else. End of the day though you still need a human curation of the end product and I doubt any generation will ever be better than if a human took the same thing and remade it from scratch using it as a basis.

This took all of a few seconds to put together using AI
(just a throw away effort for demonstration - the lyrics don't make any sense).
 
Rroff said:
End of the day though you still need a human curation of the end product and I doubt any generation will ever be better than if a human took the same thing and remade it from scratch using it as a basis.
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Exactly this, in terms of software/engineering it's the complexity that it's not going to replace, it will mash 20 different components which are supposed to do the same sort of job together into a functional product, but it's not going to be good.

I use LLMs, they're useful - but I don't for one second believe that unless something fundamentally changes that our futures are as bleak as the pro-AI ideology is at the moment, which let's be honest is just billionaires who can afford to finance things getting richer.

It is also ruinously expensive both in terms of money and energy/water..
 
savagesam117 said:
They haven’t been fitted yet. But it won’t stay pumped up long enough to get me to the tyre place either so I’ll have to faff around putting the spare on but if I’m doing that, may as well put it on stands and just take them off.
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Depends what kind of puncture/leak but I keep a bunch of "Tyre Doctor Tyre Puncture Repair Kit" in my vehicles, though never had to use them yet myself fingers crossed, and I don't keep a jack in the Qashqai (need to sort that really), but have sorted colleagues out before.

(The one time I had a puncture on the Qashqai I had to call the RAC out :s)
 
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Sometimes the smallest thing gives the most satisfaction. Been scratching my head on the best and mots efficient way to use the USB ports in my new set up between the Docks and USB hub in the monitor using various Thunderbolt, USB- and USB-A with a couple of things only a dumb USB port for charging.
 
Spent an enjoyable couple of minutes in B+Q car park laughing at a man trying to get a 4 foot square of fibreboard into his max 3.9 foot car boot.

He rotated it fully several times before giving up and taking it back in for a refund.
 
Rroff said:
Depends what kind of puncture/leak but I keep a bunch of "Tyre Doctor Tyre Puncture Repair Kit" in my vehicles, though never had to use them yet myself fingers crossed, and I don't keep a jack in the Qashqai (need to sort that really), but have sorted colleagues out before.

(The one time I had a puncture on the Qashqai I had to call the RAC out :s)
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I can’t be bothered to even look, I’ll just whip them off and throw them in the work van.

I don’t have RAC or anything, I am the RAC in my family :(
 
potatolord said:
Spent an enjoyable couple of minutes in B+Q car park laughing at a man trying to get a 4 foot square of fibreboard into his max 3.9 foot car boot.

He rotated it fully several times before giving up and taking it back in for a refund.
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Lol I had a bunch of wood cut to build my log store and forgot my boot restriction. Whipped it back in and had him cut the biggest in two lol
 
potatolord said:
Spent an enjoyable couple of minutes in B+Q car park laughing at a man trying to get a 4 foot square of fibreboard into his max 3.9 foot car boot.

He rotated it fully several times before giving up and taking it back in for a refund.
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I see that kind of thing quite a bit when parked up near DIY stores or Argos, etc. - the number of times I've seen people desperately trying to shove a 60 inch TV into a little hatchback :(
 
Rroff said:
I see that kind of thing quite a bit when parked up near DIY stores or Argos, etc. - the number of times I've seen people desperately trying to shove a 60 inch TV into a little hatchback :(
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It was that he rotated a square piece of wood, in the hope that would help, that really tickled me.

This is why maths is important, folks...
 
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Throrik said:
Just like self-service tills were supposed to make checkout people extinct and self-driving was going to make HGV Drivers extinct I still see a lot of those around.
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TBF we've gone from 10-15 staff on checkouts area, to 2-3 and only a single manned checkout open. I think AI will have/is having a huge and not entirely positive impact on the world. If you look wider than the world of IT it's disrupting all sorts of work, just look at marketing materials or any PowerPoint presentations since mid 2024.
 
LuckyBenski said:
TBF we've gone from 10-15 staff on checkouts area, to 2-3 and only a single manned checkout open. I think AI will have/is having a huge and not entirely positive impact on the world. If you look wider than the world of IT it's disrupting all sorts of work, just look at marketing materials or any PowerPoint presentations since mid 2024.
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I think it depends - there's a lot of stats on the move away from self-service the last few years ago:

www.bbc.co.uk

Asda to put more staff on checkouts as self-service reaches limit

The firm denied the move was about shoppers' preference for a human to help them rather than a machine.
www.bbc.co.uk

Just one example, locally I've seen a big return to 5-6+ manned checkouts in the local shops. I'm not saying it's not a disruptive technology - used in the right ways it's great, but people are thinking that entire industries are going to be obsolete and that is 100% the marketing that is being pushed by the AI Superpowers like Meta, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI etc. But that's because that's what they're selling, it's not because it's the actual future. Will it have a place? Yes of course. You mention marketing materials for one, I'd love to see statistics on peoples belief in marketing materials since AI became the be-all-and-end-all.

I think it'll have a short-term hugely negative impact because CEOs/Shareholders will use it as an excuse to get rid of people, especially junior to mid level staff because their roles can be most easily be replaced by well thought out prompt engineering, the difficulty is getting well thought out prompts, but long term it's a big loss and there'll no doubt be a regression back when prices for AI technology increase and increase.

But then again, I could be wrong and the next thing we know we'll be energy sources and in the Matrix :D
 
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