Why are you on fedi if you love the corpo slop machine so much? This platform was specifically made to get away from people like you. Go back to linkedin.

[+] placebo@lemmy.zip -17 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't you think too much of yourself and your role here? Lmao. What a buffoon 😂

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Name 1 great struggle that humanity suffers from that “Ai” has resolved.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A nice low bar, set fairly and in good faith.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not sure whether you're being sarcastic here, but what about:

"Name a publicly traded company that generated significant profit as a result of buying llm services from a provider."

I don't think there is one. I hear about companies creating revenue (at a loss) and I hear tiny/private companies claiming it's been a huge boon, but I haven't seen one actually blow up.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago

Not sure whether you’re being sarcastic here

Jesus.

“Name a publicly traded company that generated significant profit as a result of buying llm services from a provider.”

This at least is just a problem of relevance. Utility is not measured in money - especially for open-source non-profits like Zig - and people selling shovels and promises are obviously not the best place to look for success stories in mineral rights.

But I've seen several Youtube channels hand-wave complicated software for devices they've just built from scratch.

And several copyleft projects are caught in philosophical arguments against permissive rewrites with completely different code, structure, and/or programming language.

And a few ultra-niche projects simply typed "rewrite this in Rust" for an order-of-magnitude speed boost.

The kneejerk insistence that LLMs are never useful is wishful thinking. It's less defensible than equally glib promises of institutional value, because even some of the people loudly distancing themselves do so because it worked. 'I didn't recognize my own codebase!' Yeah, because you didn't write it. The chatbot did. It's not Inception-ing the experience of making it yourself; it's inventing exactly the Github dead-end you'd like to find.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 33 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a resolution they've arrived after considering the benefits and downsides of that tool. Nukes can be used for efficient large-scale excavation, but people were sane enough to realize why nuking themselves was a horrible idea.

Considering only the benefits and not the risks and drawbacks of anything is not just reckless. It's zealotry.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

where are these measurable benefits? so far they haven't really realized anywhere

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 35 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There's also huge downsides that everyone always seems to forget (enormous power/clean water usage, noise pollution, etc.)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, this is what bothers me more than the supposedly non-existent benefits, because I've seen LLMs being useful as tools, but the impact on environment is not clearly communicated (I'd wager it's because no one wants to admit that it's enormous). For that reason I'm trying to use local LLM instead, and it is more limited in usefulness but that's fine by me as it's not the only tool I have

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Clearly they don’t find it useful.