@0xabad1dea this very one-Cherub-choir enjoyed to be preached at very much. 谢谢

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Thanks for this. Also has a useful tip:

If you are unfortunate enough to have a recent Pixel phone, it's at least possible to reliably turn all this crap off — go to System > Apps > Show all apps, use the three-dots menu to "Show system", tap "AICore", and disable it.

@0xabad1dea I had some thoughts and they were too long for a Mastodon reply post

@0xabad1dea this is just my thoughts as well. So many people BEG me to try using AI for work but I'm not having it. Yeah, sure, it does solve common simple tasks rather well. But I don't do common simple tasks. I mostly do things no one has done before, and I enjoy the fact that I made this myself and got a bit smarter in the process, too.

@0xabad1dea Somehow this made me think of that 1995 movie The American President?

https://youtu.be/HKTqS4bXugg?si=w22wf0kAZ1LtghS7&t=132

The People are lonely and looking for a genuine connection and will accept any simulacra: porn, soap opera, view counts, retweet counts, follower counts, LLM "AI" girlfriends…

They have been fleeced and deceived like sheep without a shepherd, and they don't know the difference anymore

All these middlemen and meddlemen keep pushing the next "Whatever" which they barely understand, don't care about, and got free or nearly free, but will sell for a profit as many times as possible.

Middlemen, managers, lobbyists, money exchangers, bankers, etc… all meddlemen are #WealthExtractors, their contribution to anything is negative

@0xabad1dea This is a great long read about the absurd LLM situation. I like the pragmatic coder's perspective. The paragraph about VSCode's 'adding quotes' behaviour as an irritating break of coding flow hit home. Going to turn that off if I can. I feel the same about having copilot flash lines of code where they don't belong. Only about 1 in 5 times does it actually help. Time to disable that, too.