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Some individual motivation… Curiosity. Fascination with new tech. Or the prospect of maybe saving time and then evaluating if that’s the case. Idk, I’ve tried it as well and it doesn’t seem to save me time but that’s one of the the big promises of AI. I think we all know how AI delivers on its promises overall. But learning and experimenting (with some due diligence) is rarely amongst the problematic aspects of something. But it kind of comes first or you can’t learn about the truth.

Thanks, yeah I can understand that. I’ll try to get ahold of an Anthropic account and see what it’s about. It’s not high priority for me, but eventually I’d like to know the truth. I have some random hobby projects with stuff I could throw at it.

Yeah, It won’t do anything, though. That dynamic is baked in to the core of social media. You’re supposed to doomscroll and get some small but constant dopamine hits. It’ll tingle a bit once you’re offended or get your perspective validated. I don’t think it’s a fallacy, that’s the core dynamics, and what we incentivise people to do by designing platforms like this.

(I think the framing is a bit stupid, because it takes away from the valid criticism of TEMU and there’s enough of it. This is more like the good old story of how someone dried their dog in the microwave and now we need stickers to tell people how reality works.)

I think that’s a general societal trend and we’re not exempt from any of that. But yeah, I wish we’d focus on quality and discuss things, not stir up simple emotions.

Why the heck would someone use a brush that has the words “tile, sink, wash basin, bath/showers” on it and let their small kid play with it? Generally tools and kids don’t mix well. You’re supposed to stow power tools and bathroom cleaning supply out of reach. Same goes for other motorized things, even a handheld electric mixer in the kitchen, we also got youtube videos about how they rip out hair of stupid teenagers.

Thanks. Yeah I didn’t try Claude. They want my phone number to sign up and I’m not providing that to people. But you’re not the only person suggesting Claude Sonnet, I’ve read that several times now. I wonder if they’re really that much better. I’ll try some more throwaway phone numbers to get in, but seems they’ve blocked most of them.

I’ve tried breaking down things as well. That’s usually a good strategy in programming. Though I guess at some point they’re small enough so I could have already typed it in myself instead of talking about doing it. And I find it often also struggles to find the right balance with the level of detail of a function and whether it’s clever to do a very specific singular thing or do it a bit more general so the function can be reused in other parts of the code. So it’ll be extra work later to revise it, once everything is supposed to come together and integrate/combine.

I don’t think it’s the model, it’s more the process I don’t like. There is some appeal to programming for me in understanding things and creating something with my mind, not dealing with people but solid logic problems which are properly right or wrong and it’ll all come together from a small defined set of very basic things and then I combine them in some craft to achieve arbitrary things. It’ll come together in my mind and then I type everything down and figure out the rest and that’s kind of satisfying to me. AI programming feels more like sitting in endless meetings to discuss details and revise things, then fix stuff and that’s all the tings I don’t like, and in the meantime we’ve brushed over the one thing I did like. I’d rather it did the tedious things for me. Write specifications, documentation, sift through data and convert it, do correspondence and handle finances. Organize the mess on my computer and bring coffee… Idk. I guess I could break up tasks and delegate if it had the “intelligence” for it.

I think I tried most free commercial ones which didn’t need my phone number… Gemini (AIstudio), ChatGPT, Grok. I’ve experimented a bit with local ones like DeepSeek but I don’t really have the hardware for that, so it’s smaller variants and takes ages to ingest the code and write something.

(And btw I think the individual experience also depends on the task and programming language involved. Seems to me AI’s performance varies a lot depending on if it’s currently writing Python, JavaScript or C++ code for an embedded system… And sometimes coding problems are fairly contained and sometimes you need to have some overview of a larger codebase to tackle one single task. So I guess we might get different results depending on the specific project?!)

Ja, denke auch das ist Quatsch. Ältere Apps laufen meist problemlos. Vielleicht könnte ich auch den Aurora Store bemühen mir das trotzdem herunterzuladen. Aber ich hab auch noch ein altes Telefon in der Schublade, das krieg ich schon hin.

We might be in the wrong community here to discuss a positive attitude towards AI coding… But anyway… Do you like it? I think I’m more and more coming to the conclusion that I don’t really fancy it. It’s somewhat fulfilling to code something. But my experience with AI is I’ll spend 90 minutes arguing with it and making it have countless shots at the one problem, and then I end up reading all the code, refactoring it and rewriting snippets and it’s super tedious and I’m annoyed because I like computers for doing exactly what I tell the to do, and now I have to argue with the darn thing about the specifications or how memory allocation or maths works a certain way or if we can pull in random libraries for a simple task… So I’m a bit split on this. At first it was very exciting and fascinating. But I think for coding that kind of got old quickly. At least for me and the stuff I do. These days I’ll use it for quick tech-demos, templates, placeholders, to google the documentation, translate Chinese and the like but I’ve cut down on the actual coding mostly because it takes the fun out of it and turns it upside-down into reviewing and correcting code.

I think I’m giving them a pass as well. It’s been months since and everything is still okay. From what I can see it looks like some experiments. With quite a good chunk of manual intervention, review and then changing around things and force-pushing a correct (probably human-written) version. I wonder if it even saved them time. Maybe they reconsidered their approach since, the last of those PRs is from end of August. At least they seem to be transparent and pay a good amount of attention to what Copilot does.

I think vibe-coding and AI assisted programming is a bit weird anyway. My own experience is mostly negative. I’ve experimented with it nonetheless. Idk, lots of programmers are clever but also curious people. They’ll try things and figure it out eventually. And looks to me like they might be roughly on the right track here. And I’ll agree, it doesn’t really matter whether they review pull requests from a 14 year old, or russian hacker in disguise or AI. It’s always the same process with pull requests and you never know who’s at the other end and what their motivations are. It’s highly problematic if people bury developers in AI slop, but if they choose so themselves, they’re mostly equipped to deal with it. At least in theory and if they’re good at their job.

Cool, danke! Playstore sagt die App ist zu alt und mein Android zu neu… Aber das probiere ich doch gerne die Tage mal auf einem älteren Telefon aus.

Also meine Frau behauptet ihr direkt bei der Bahn erworbenes Deutschlandticket funktioniert nur in der DB App. Ist auch nur digital. Google Wallet haben wir nicht ausprobiert …weil Google. Also meines Wissens nach gibt es den Zwang. Der Rest ist aber sicherlich korrekt, mit den pkpass Dateien die ich so hin und wieder bekomme, komme ich super zurecht.

Ja, das ist wirklich dämlich. Also den QR-Code aus einer pkpass Datei kann ich ja sogar ausdrucken und mir so wie früher ins Portemonnaie stecken. Das wäre schon ziemlich hilfreich. Es wäre mal interessant zu wissen ob diese Kontrollier-Maschinen nicht sowieso mit dem Internet verbunden sind und dort checken dort ob mein Ticket gültig ist. Dann müsste das was auf meinem Ticket gespeichert ist ja nicht mehr sein als meine Kundennummer?!

Edit: Naja, und wenn das für einige Verkehrsverbünde funktioniert… das Deutschlandsemesterticket für Studierende funktioniert genauso… Deutet für mich schon eher darauf hin, dass die Bahn das hier verbockt und nicht die Verbraucher:innen.

Ja, kommt auch ein bisschen drauf an wie die grad so drauf sind. Meistens sind sie tatsächlich ganz nett. Ab und zu auch mal nicht. Weiß nicht, überall arbeiten auch mal nicht nette Menschen oder vielleicht haben sie grad nen schlechten Moment, wahrscheinlich verursacht durch andere Fahrgäste… Sonderlich zuvorkommend wenn etwas schiefläuft sind sie allerdings nicht. Das wird sicherlich auch mit Aussehen zu tun haben, wenn wir über Menschen reden. Aber es wirkt schon so auf mich als gäbe es da eine Dienstanweisung ernst und strikt vorzugehen sobald die Bahn ihre Interessen durchsetzen möchte, oder die Situation irgendwie unklar ist. Ich denke in Normalfall und wenn alle entspannt sind, sind Zugpersonal und Kontrolleure aber wirklich beispielhaft, so wie beschrieben. Und sie haben sich die App und die Prozesse ja auch nicht ausgedacht, also das können wir ihnen eh nicht ankreiden.

Für die Funktionsfähigkeit des digitalen Tickets sind die Fahrgäste selbst verantwortlich.

Naja, hat man als Fahrgast denn irgend eine irgendwie geartete Form von Kontrolle über das Ticket? Also letztendlich gibt es diesen App-Zwang ja regelmäßig. Und sie schreiben auch nie ob man die Codes in eine App laden kann bei der man weiß was sie macht oder wie sie funktioniert. Ich bin immer recht ratlos wie der Code auf dem Bildschirm zustande kommt. Ob man dafür Internet braucht, ob sich das monatlich ändert… Also ich hab kaum eine Chance mich darum zu kümmern. Die Lidl Rabatt App zeigt auch manchmal nix an ohne Internet, oder die Drogeriemarkt App oder DHL logged sich random aus bevor ich einkaufe/sie brauche… Also irgendwie fühlt es sich für mich so an als hätte ich überhaupt keine Kontrolle mehr in unserer schönen modernen Smartphone-App Welt. Also ich habe irgendwie physische Gewalt über das Gerät und den Akkustand, klar. Darauf passieren per Software irgendwelche Dinge, die sich mir mit Absicht entziehen. Aber schön, dass ich die Verantwortung trage?!

I got a nice Dell Latitude 7390 for like 250€ a year ago. I usually just have an eye on the sales page of my local laptop refurbisher and go for the best Dell or Lenovo laptop in my price range. Since that’s mostly devices returned from leasing by businesses, they’re the more serviceable models than regular consumer models. But serviceability is somewhat limited these days. You’d have to check individually how many RAM slots are available (if any) and whether the BIOS accepts random wifi cards.

Yeah, looks like a coordinated effort. They’re re-aligning other things as well. They also forfeited their pledge not to develop AI for weapons and surveillance. Joined that “age restriction” effort to collect people’s IDs. And I’ve seen a massive crackdown on Youtube, from ramping up advertisements, making it harder to circumvent these, or download videos, to what they pay to creators which has also reportedly changed substantially.

I guess Android is amongst the more annoying ones, because we all rely on smartphones and the operating system on there.

I’d say that depends on exactly what you’re trying to protect. They’re both large American companies with control over your data and your data and metadata will end up in their respective clouds. Push notifications will be handled by Google services if you use Android, but there’s an equivalent mechanism for iOS just that it uses their servers. They handle some details differently, but I don’t think any of those options deserve the word privacy.

Great. I’m still disgruntled by them restricting device-trees, AOSP development and app installation in the future.

I think that’s a you problem. If you’re too thin-skinned for the truth, I don’t think there is a good way to engage with people on the internet. Especially technology is a field that’s massively intertwined with money. In our current world, the largest and dominatig companies are about technology and selling ads. That’s just the way it is. So when talking about facts and real-world issues with internet technology, this influence is bound to come up… I mean feel free to have your own opinion. Maybe it’s also a cultural difference in our perspective on the world. I’m also a person who doesn’t shy away from calling them out.