What principal AI haters will never admit is the tremendous value it brings to ordinary people on a daily basis.
My take on it is that it mainly fills in the gap of decades of bad software, bad UX and bad understanding of user's needs.
I wanted to get an idea of the overall trip coverage reported by Garmin InReach. For some reason each new start generates new track. UI does not allow stats. ChatGPT to the rescue!
I was looking for quite a while for an online tool that would take a GPX and would give me GPS coordinates of a bounding box. Simple task, but could not find one.
ChatGPT5 whipped out python script including how-to use it almost faster than former Google results would come back.
And it worked.
Menu posters for local food stand. It's 1000% what one usually sees when people "design" it themselves.
Drafting alt text for images on socials. Yes i know you will tell me some funny story where it went hilariously wrong, bug then there are those:
https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot/115029454502642708
Average human:
1) Would not put time to describe such details
2) Would not pay attention to the composition
3) Would not care about explaining the joke
@[email protected] The image features two side-by-side photographs of a Nokia mobile phone, with the text "Kids today would never understand this:" at the top. The left phone shows a battery level of 100% at 8:00 AM, while the right phone shows a battery level of 99% at 8:00 PM. The phones are identical, with the Nokia logo prominently displayed. The background is plain white, emphasizing the phones and the text. The image humorously suggests that the battery life of modern smartphones is significantly shorter than that of older models, highlighting a nostalgic aspect of technology from the past. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.141 Wh
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Yes, you can achieve the same by using non-AI tools.
Episode 472: Should my junior dev use AI?
Yes, yes they should. Learning can happen in multitude ways and it's not uncommon for (not only juniors) to get stuck for hours and days on end on things that are solvable by second pair of eyes. If it needs to be robotic ones, so be it.
https://softskills.audio/2025/08/04/episode-472-should-my-junior-dev-use-ai-and-thrown-in-to-etl/
Coding. Yep, I mean it. I can't care less about memorising clever language hacks nor algorithms/structures details.
For me code is only a vehicle that gets me to the goal. As long as I can describe the goal and understand the provided vehicle & it's tradeoffs I'm being more productive & happy.
And yes, contrary to the popular narrative of those that would "never touch AI", but somehow still know "it sucks": It works. Pretty well all things considered.
When you want to work on the go. I literally just closed my laptop, moved to train and opened my ChatGPT session on phone.
Sure, some will try to argue that mobile versions of apps do exist, buuuut... Have you tried using excel from your smartphone?
In contrast - the chat interface works pretty much the same irrespective to which device I'm using.
Illustration images for community posters. I have a clear vision in my head of something that is very specific and very quirky. I have zero budget to commission the work, next to zero talent to make it myself, and enough creative determination to make it the way I want.
Michal Bryxí