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pointless stunts.

Well, we're talking about it. I also understand (which doesn't mean I support) their message without even looking it up. I'm glad someone else clarified it (cf “There is no art on a dead planet.”) proving that it's really not that hard.

Who cares about the most beautiful piece of art ever if there is nobody left to enjoy it because we are literally burning up the only livable ecosystem we know?

Search for “water positive” commitment. You will quickly see it's a "goal" thus it is consequently NOT the case. In some places where water is abundant it might not be a problem, where it's scarce then it's literally a choice made between crops to feed people and... compute cycles.

I hope I won't undermine your entirely justified trust but Altman is also a crypto guy, cf Worldcoin. /$

Super, thanks again for taking the time to do so.

I can't remember if I shared this earlier but I'm jolting down notes on the topic in https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence so I do also invest time on the topic. Yet my results have also been... subpar so I'm asking as precisely as I can how others actually benefit from it. I'm tired of seeing posts with grand claims that, unlike you, only talk about the happy path in usage. Still, I'm digging not due to skepticism as much as trying to see what can actually be leveraged, not to say salvaged. So yes, genuine feedback like yours is quite precious.,

I do seem to hear from you and others that to kickstart what would be a blank project and get going it can help. Also that for whatever is very recurrent AND popular, like common structures, it can help.

My situation though is in prototyping where documentation is sparse, if even existent, and working examples are very rare. So far it's been a bust quite often.

Out of curiosity, which AI tools specifically do you use and do you pay for them?

PS: you mention documentation is both cases, so I imagine it's useful when it's very structured and when the user can intuit most of how something works, closer to a clearly named API with arguments than explaining the architecture of the project.

Thanks for that, was quite interesting and I agree that completion too early (even... in general) can be distracting.

I did mean about AI though, how you manage to integrate it in your workflow to "automate the boring parts" as I'm curious which parts are "boring" for you and which tools you actual use, and how, to solve the problem. How in particular you are able to estimate if it can be automated with AI, how long it might take, how often you are correct about that bet, how you store and possibly share past attempts to automate, etc.

Mind explaining a bit your workflow at the moment?

I don't think I understand your point, are you saying there is no benefit in running locally and that Websites or APIs are more convenient?

improves my experience coding in unfamiliar languages

Alan Perlis said "A programming language that doesn't change the way you think is not worth learning."

So... if you code in another language without actually "getting it", solely having a usable result, what is actually the point of changing languages?

FWIW I did try a lot (LLMs, code, generative AI for images, 3D models) in a lot of ways (CLI, Web based, chat bot) both locally and using APIs.

I don't use any on a daily basis. I find it exciting that we can theoretically do a lot "more" automatically but... so far the results have not been worth the efforts. Sadly some of the best use cases are exactly what you highlighted, i.e low effort engagement for spam. Overall I find that either working with a professional (script writer, 3D modeler, dev, designer, etc) is a lot more rewarding but also more efficient which itself makes it cheaper.

For use cases where customization helps while quality does matter much due to scale, i.e spam, then LLMs and related tools are amazing.

PS: I'd love to hear the opinion of a spammer actually, maybe they also think it's not that efficient either.

I like Ollama, and recommend it to tinker, but I admit this "LLM Explorer" is quite neat thanks to sections like "LLMs Fit 16GB VRAM"

Ollama just works but it doesn't help to pick which model best fits your needs.

Yes I'm talking about DeArrow. Well yes but to be more precise they initially "block" the addon from working for few hours then they let you use it without paying. Slightly different, again I'm not criticizing just highlighting this is not how most add-ons do work.

Interesting that this extension is pay only, first time I see this. Again makes sense to go against a business model of "free" of cost but too expensive for sanity.