@Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226
oatmeal[…] at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3la6iaxohs22x
Nobody Important@oatmeal I think AI is a user interface paradigm shift more so than making computers smart or whatever. A natural language interface to computing tasks is a powerful thing. Much more so than having a little box that bullshits you.
@forkexecwait 100% agree. The scam is intelligence which with fomo is meant to boost valuations and really is not a deliverable of this technology, and there’s no evidence I’m aware of anyone can demonstrate such abilities.
Bogdan Buduroiu@forkexecwait @oatmeal same idea here, people would be genuinely amazed by dumb 9M parameter models than can just do function calling well (and run in browser rather than huge datacentres), i.e. converting from "What's on my to-do list today" -> print(get_tasks("2026-02-01"))
Allan Chow@forkexecwait @oatmeal my specific beef with gemini vs google assistant is that gemini is INCONSISTENT in its response to me when i give it a command. It's pretty infuriating. And now assistant is gone 😭😭😭
Michael Westergaardthey're just reinventing the command line. because natural language is ambiguous, so eventually there will be a specific dialect used that isn't ambiguous. aka, a command line
Ed Davies
Very Human Robot@oatmeal but that's a good thing, right?
@StompyRobot for casual users maybe but does this justify the theft of intellectual property, abuse of data workers and environmental damage? Investors are trapped in a bubble of over investing in a cool tool that can’t deliver much of what’s promised even with the huge investment this far.
Robert Banz@oatmeal Product Managers that think they’ll be able to “vibe” their way into a future without those pesky software engineers always crushing their dreams.
John William David Thomson@oatmeal I've seen things like basic refactoring, finding and fixing trivial errors, even formatting, as examples of great things an LLM can do, as if any competent IDE (or handful of cli tools) hasn't done that for ages.
TerrorBite 🦁@oatmeal the other 30% is greedy unscrupulous people who've realised just how much money they can make off the first 70%