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AI chatbots could be making you stupider (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 week ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?

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[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They can also make you smarter if you use them right. Key is to use local models and not giving the techbros any money.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's on my to-do list. I'm currently reworking my entire build because I realized I had enough last generation parts to build a media server. Once I have windows set up to only run on VM and get my stuff moved and backed up I'm going to install an LLM

[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recommend Qwen3.6, either the 27B dense or the 35B MoE model. Both outstanding for local models.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What hardware are you using?

I am using qwen3.5 9b. And it is barely working.

[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have a Radeon RX 7800 XT.

Qwen 3.5-9b is blazingly fast on it. However while it’s its impressive for its size, it has its limitations. Complex tasks with several steps are too much for it.

So now I run the 3.6-35B model with llama.cpp It’s too big for my VRAM so I had to split it: everything that doesn’t fit on the graphics’s card runs in the normal RAM. That slows everything down, but with the right flags I get a bit over 20 tokens/s.

If you have problems with speed and you’re using ollama I would replace it with something faster like llama.cpp.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep telling yourself that

[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Sure! How much experience do you have with LLMs?