You say AI doesn’t do new things but it does, probably more so than any other invention in human history…

I’m under the impression that you’re young and that to you AI is a fad because it’s just a silly toy that people use to make shitty TikTok videos; that eventually people will tire of the AI slop, it’ll stop getting likes, and people will stop using it.

But that’s not what AI actually is, that’s just the side effect of AI.

AI can do anything you can do on a computer. If you can write code and make apps, so can AI. If you can make pictures and music, so can can AI. If you do data analytics for research, so can AI. If you use computers to scan the stars for planets, look for cancer, or research potential new forms of medicine, so can AI. And crazier, you don’t even need to type. Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech means you can literally just talk to your computer now. You can have actual conversations with your computer. It can help you debug, design, build, and when it comes down to it, AI can actually do the work for you.

And unlike Siri you don’t have to give it specific commands. “It’s fucking dark in here, fix that” is something AI can understand. It’ll turn on the lights

It’s something straight out of Star Trek

None of us are worried about AI because it sucks, we’re all worried about AI because it’s so immensely powerful we’re a bit scared about what it means for all of our futures.

Is AI going to bring in a new age of marvelous science where cancer is curable and every year we get what is basically a vaccine for the cold? Are humanoid robots going to make complex surgery a breeze with a 99.999% survival rate? Or are clankers going to take all of our jobs and be used in humanoid robots to invade my country?

Either way, it’s not going away. It’s here… people have been working on this, researching it, writing papers on it, experimenting with it, etc… for decades and we’ve finally figured out how to make it work. Nobody is just throwing it away now that it’s here

It’s already not a failure though. This is what you can’t seem to grasp

Like the dot-com bubble, yeah, some AI companies are probably going under. I’m unsure if there’s a need or want big enough to support, say, AI Music. So will Suno survive? I don’t know.

But when the dot-com bubble burst the internet didn’t die. Web pages didn’t vanish. Online businesses didn’t stop becoming a part of our daily lives. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. Most business are on the web now. Software is hosted on the cloud, streaming is how we watch tv, online shopping is the norm, etc…

The dot-com bubble burst but the internet still took over society

AI is not going away. That’s just all there is to it. You can hate it all you want, but in 20 years people are going to look back on posts like yours with the same way we look back on people who claimed the internet was a fad. It’s just silly.

People aren’t just going to take this massive breakthrough in computing and throw it away.

Just really driving home how fucking stupid it was to claim AI was the next Virtual Boy

I want you to remember this so you can spend the next years of your life knowing just how foolish it was to say that

I’m just trying to explain to you that while your experience with AI appears to just be people making shitty TikTok videos or whatever, in reality AI Agents are a new way to use your computer and it’s not going to go away

Maybe you’re too young to know this, but in the early 2000s we had all of our music on our computer. Literal music files. And it was a big deal to keep it organized. So if you had 200,000 songs you would want to make sure they were all in folders by artist or just straight up named {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} so you could find what you wanted to listen to quickly

But music files had no guaranteed naming convention so everyone just did what they thought was best and when you ripped a song off a CD or downloaded it off the internet the naming convention could be anything. So we spent hours renaming songs and filling out details, adding album artwork, etc… so that everything looked the way we wanted in our preferred music playing app like ITunes.

You know, when the song played, the right image showed up, it had the right star rating, the genre was correctly flagged, etc…

If AI Agents had existed back then, renaming all 200,000 songs to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName} would be literally as easy as going into your Agent and typing

“Please rename all of my music files in c:\users\myuser\music to be {Artist}{Album}{TrackNumber}_{SongName}”

And that’s it… the Agent, because it knows every song by every artist, can figure out what every file in that folder is and what the name is suppose to be; and then it will actually rename the files for you, successfully

No business is looking at that kind of technology and saying, “this is dumb”.

Good luck I guess… but in 5 years you don’t get to say nobody told you. So, take this time now to learn or end up being the new-age version of one of those people who don’t know how to open a PDF

I’m telling you right now, AI is not going anywhere and AI agents are everywhere

Again, just silly

The Virtual Boy didn’t even last a year.

Tools like Siri and Alexa are over 12 years old and while they weren’t based on LLMs its a clear indication that this kind of virtual assistant is not going away

And AI Agents and real LLMs are pushing 4 years now

You think you’re being clever but you’re just setting yourself up for failure

This is just silly

All of this is actually happening and it’s not even brand new. I guess it’s new to you, but some of us have been using these tools for years now.

If you’re an older adult in a blue collar field you might be able to get away with spending your life thinking it’s a stupid toy, but if you’re young you might want to pay attention because real soon you’re going to enter a work force where people are going to expect you to understand how these tools work

I don’t know if you’re a teenager or something that thinks AI is only used to help people cheat on tests; or…

if you’re an adult that has a blue collar job where AI is basically just a glorified search engine, but…

for the rest of us it’s an integral part of our daily office lives; especially in software

During our morning meetings Claude acts like a secretary. It takes notes during the meeting and emails us all those notes when the meeting is over and during the meeting, if we want something done, we just verbally ask it to do something as if it were a real person. It can make tasks, send emails, add items to our calendars, send us reminders later in the day, etc…

Claude-Code is an app you install on your computer that, should you give it access, can literally alter files on your computer. So it helps us literally write code. Not only can it write code, it can read and review it as well. Searching for bugs, logic errors, etc… and that’s exactly what we have it do. Every time someone pushes code, Claude reviews it. Two other humans also have to review the code, but Claude always reviews everything first

And since Claude can execute commands, it can launch and use apps. So Claude not only writes our unit tests, it runs them too; and not just unit tests. Claude can literally use our application like a real human would, so we have Claude do that too

For sales and marketing, Claude does data analytics.

Nobody is going to just wake up and say, “nah, all that sucks. Get rid of it”

IF you need a name for your metal band, Ikea is full of them

They’re not idiots though

While there arguments about the value of the companies making the AI agents, the fear of real humans being replaced by AI agents in the work force, and the environmental concerns of the data centers… the AI itself is an immensely helpful, and immensely powerful tool that is definitely not a fad that is going to disappear and definitely not used just by idiots

Here’s an article about AI being trained look at X-Rays and successfully diagnosing 11 patients with early breast cancer that was missed by the human Doctors

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68607059

I said you can hate it all you want, but also it’s not going anywhere and in 20 years people are going to look back at posts like yours and laugh

It’s definitely not The Virtual Boy

For me personally? Software

It’s not aggressive, If you would read it you would see all I did was explain how it does what you claimed it can’t do

What part am I lying about?

Can AI not write code? Can it not read and write files on you computer? Can it not use Powershell or execute command line prompts? Does Text-To-Speech not exist?

You’ve had Seri for years, you think that’s just going to vanish now?

Have you not used Google or Bing recently? You get an AI overview at the top of almost every search now

“I didn’t read what you wrote but I know you’re wrong”

But yeah, you’re totally a super smart AI guy and we should all listen to you. I mean, you’re too lazy to read a few paragraphs on a web forum but you’ve definitely taken the time to study up on all the things AI is currently doing in the business world

Seems legit to me

for what?

Is this site full of 12 years old kids or something? How do you guys not know that AI has quickly become an integral part of many corporations day-to-day business routines?

what?

We do our meetings on Zoom and there is a Claude plug-in that was set up so that, during the meeting, we can just say, “Hey Claude” and then tell it to do something it will do that thing

Frequently we use it, during meetings, to make cases for jobs we need to do either that day or in the coming week. Claude has access to our Kanban board and so we can, and do, ask it to not only make or edit cases but also to move those cases around the board for us

After the meeting, this might be Zoom itself, we all get an AI document that goes over all of the things that were discussed in that meeting.

Claude-Code is literally an app you can download and it’s soul purpose is to access files on your computer and make changes to them.

Obviously Claude can write code (that’s what “Vibe Coding” is) but Claude-Code doesn’t just write it in the browser and then print it out on screen, it literally writes to files on your computer. You literally give it access to create, delete, update, and edit files on your machine. Because of this, not only can it write code for us, it can also write, and run, our automated tests. And setting this up so that these tests automatically run every hour or to run the relevant tests per PR is a simple task

So yes, Claude not only writes tests for us, it runs the tests. And since Claude can access the files on our computer we can literally tell Claude to do things in our app so, yes, Claude is the first level of testing

It can also read code, so it reads the code pushed and it reviews it. Claude can also approve or deny a PR if it finds something wrong. We still require two humans to review the code, but Claude goes first so I’m not wasting my time reviewing code with obvious problems

Voice-To-Text is not new and you are well aware of the fact that you can chat with AI right? Literally an AI program called “ChatGPT”. So when I talk it gets converted to text and sent to an AI, who responds and Text-To-Speech turns it back into a voice… so I can literally talk to AI

Which mean, yes, I can talk to AI to navigate a phone system or place an order at a fast food place; and I have done literally that

This isn’t even crazy stuff. This is like AI 101 at this point.

So you think I don’t write software for a living or do you think my company doesn’t use AI?

I’m in the software industry and I’m telling you that AI is not The Virtual Boy

It’s used from the bottom up. It dictates notes, makes cases, tracks meetings, does basic PR reviews, updates code, tests, writes tests, manages the Kanban board, etc…

It’s in your phone, it’s in your search engines, I made a phones call the other day and talked to an AI to navigate the phone system, I ordered by talking to an AI at a fast food place about a month ago, etc…

It’s here and it’s not going away

You can hate it, but in 20 years people are going to look back on “AI is dumb” posts and laugh

You could very well be right. Depending on your weight, athleticism, and how much you move, it could take an hour to burn off a Kit-Kat bars worth of calories, that’s pretty normal

Someone more athletic can get more movement in during that hour so they could burn off that Kit-Kat faster

Where someone less athletic probably gets less motion in during that same hour so it would take them longer, the entire hour or more, to burn off that same Kit-Kat

But moving more an eating less grantees you will lose weight because the laws of physics will not allow you to spend more energy than you take in and still keep or produce more mass

This violates the laws of physics

Mass is energy. If you eat less and move more but still maintain or gain mass you are a free energy machine and a violation of the laws that govern the universe