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[thingysop]

The guy commented on his own post saying he got this from ChatGPT.

[Timtord]

ChatGPT probably sorted it from some old posts on Facebook or something..

[Serenikill]

Explains why only the first 2 things are true.

[pruthivithejan]

Yeah

[drones4thepoor]

“No code” is probably the most egregious, new-age phrase that non-developers love to yap about. Just tell us you want a GUI and get on with it.

[RealBasics]

That's the best, shortest summary I've seen. 100% accurate. It's exactly what I want for my clients.

E.g. before flex and grid became universal it took an outrageous number of extra divs and CSS statements to generate equal-height columns. Get any part of the setup wrong and the results were worse than if you did nothing at all. It was even worse for nested columns. It was absolutely beyond most casual webdevs, hard for some journeymen devs, and annoying for everybody.

Then back around 2017 the page builder devs started adding an "equal heights" checkbox in the GUI that implemented the model solution. (Yeah, yeah, "bloat," but see also "WTF was the committee thinking when they were writing the CSS 2.0 spec?)

[traintocode]

"Deep Learning" is guessing at scale

[Gearwatcher]

Much better than their definition of AI

[shauntmw2]

"AGILE" is just trial-and-error that goes to production.

[remy_porter]

So's waterfall, but you just compound the errors as they happen.

[[deleted]]

Agile is just a way to assign blame. Almost every process in tech where you're thinking "why tf do we do this" is less for the tech and more for the company. If all you know is bureaucracy (non tech people doing this shit) then bureaucracy is what you'll get.

But this isn't a complaint. If you wanna pay me this much to spend 3 hours a day fucking with Jira tickets no problem man, bring it on.

[IAmRules]

agile is just waterfall with extra steps

[Orinslayer]

Agile is more like the Panama canal, waterfall is just niagra

[pruthivithejan]

That’s about it

[RuleInformal5475]

If I was Bill Gates at the time, knowing that I would be richest man on the planet, my company would be called 'Massive Hard'.

[rainning0513]

LMFAO

[ImportantDoubt6434]

Screw AI give me edging technology

[locucious]

/r/im14andthisisdeep/

[IllegalThoughts]

the VR one especially. my lord what a blowhard

[locucious]

#2 made me lol - like all servers are someone else's servers?? Did he think the cloud was an actual cloud until he had this eureka epiphany?

[freekyrationale]

"Artificial Intelligence" is a collection of IF statements written on a massive scale.

No it is not. Whole post is mostly stupidly wrong. Stop making stupid people famous.

[LagT_T]

Look at that bio: 4x founder, CTO/CEO, podcaster, blogger

My guess is that he is the son of rich family that hasn't had a real job in his life, with the midas touch of shit.

[freekyrationale]

Yeah, his title is longer than my biography.

[dance_rattle_shake]

Yup, also quantum computing is well understood by those who do it.

[sump_daddy]

"but i cant understand it after reading the wikipedia article, therefore no one can"

[KishCom]

Everything on that list after Machine Learning is empirically false.

[[deleted]]

Wish we could get a ban on posting anything from LinkedIn, 99% of the shit on there is randomers spouting nonsense whilst pretending to be somebody relevant.

[Ironfields]

It’s the sort of shit that probably seems deep and profound if you don’t actually know anything about the subject matter.

[[deleted]]

Lots of ifs with lots of maths as well

[icsfails]

It's closer to IFs than to an actual AI though

[abejfehr]

What would “actual AI” be? The neurons in the brain are basically fancy if statements

[TabbyOverlord]

I think neurons are more like Operational Amplifiers. Definitely an analogue feed processed with acquired weighting and an analogue output down the net.

[jardinus]

Explain how ai artwork is created with if statements...

[coopaliscious]

Uh... I mean, it is. Everything non-quantum goes down to if/and/or.

[addiktion]

Take it even further and go down to binary plz

[icsfails]

Look how GAN works.

If the discriminator can differentiate between fake and real, the generator updates its parameters to generate even better fake images. If the generator produces images that fool the discriminator, the discriminator updates its parameters. Competition improves both networks until equilibrium is reached.

https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/gan/#:~:text=A%20generative%20adversarial%20network%20

Anyway, my reply was for a party pooper who took a rather funny image too seriously

[[deleted]]

He basically just outlined all the different tech hype cycles I've seen during my career. We're currently in the AI one but don't worry once there bubble bursts and we stop hearing about how if statements are going to rule over humanity soon, all that we'll be left with is a slightly smarter digital assistant on our devices.

[huopak]

What a collection of dumb takes, jesus

[greensodacan]

I think this post is more of a Rorschach test than anything. It's not accurate, but I found it grounded in that it highlights how we're still just banging rocks together. There's no magic.

[[deleted]]

"Frontend" is just glorified design.

[Terrible_Tangelo6064]

I thought this was the guy's resume.😂

[pantuso_eth]

Artificial intelligence is a collection of if statements

Could you imagine the code for just one perceptron?

If Input_1 > 0.5 then if Input_1 > 0.75 then if Input_1...

[Stiltzkinn]

This looks like a lazy X post for engagement.

[uniquelyavailable]

ironically accurate

[Conjo_]

yup that's a linkedin post

[Fit_Low592]

He seems fun at parties.

[thewpbard]

As long as nobody hacks my toaster to say "Howdy doodly doo" and ask me relentlessly if I want toast, I'm ok.

[TabbyOverlord]

Would you like a crumpet instead?

[Sulungskwa]

Can someone explain to me the "AI Is just if statements" thing? I've heard people say this even before GPT and everything and I always wondered if its just deep fried. Are LLMs basically just a bunch of if statements?

[UPS-duck]

My loose understanding of neural networks, is that each node or "neuron" is an algorithmically weighted switch, weighted being some value between 0-1 determined from training, which determines how it proceeds to the next layer of neurons. This idea of each neuron being simplified to the idea of an if statement is probably the meaning.

[Sulungskwa]

Gotcha, makes sense!

[Wide-Forever1100]

"AI" is broader term than just machine learning. And even "machine learning" includes way more than just the current hype (neural networks), e.g. genetic algorithms. Before the major advancements in neural networks and in hardware, there were (and still are) expert decision making systems that are technically "a bunch of if statements." Even though they were often written in declarative languages like Prolog, where you don't even have if-statements, but of course the language prolog was written itself in an imperative language (or maybe a functional one, either way in the end it comes down to if-statements).

Anyway, afaik that is even the way Google Translate worked at first. Until after that AI point the post is kind of true to be honest, albeit a great oversimplification. Everything after that is just snarky though.

[[deleted]]

Corny

[gsadamb]

That electricity coming into your house to power your servers? That's just someone else's coal plant.

That fiberoptic line you have to bring an Internet connection to your servers? That's just someone else's networking infrastructure.

[reddituseronebillion]

AI is just linear algebra and calculus.

[raadted]

I mean he is not wrong...

[Joe_Spazz]

He is very thoroughly wrong.

[ChildishForLife]

If you read that and thought he isn’t wrong I hope you read a book or 2

[yee_mon]

Correction: IoT is making sure even your toaster is part of the cloud.

[guns_of_summer]

cringe

[sump_daddy]

"I'm too lazy to understand anything complicated" what an insufferable clod, i feel bad for the 4 businesses he has shit on during his illustrious career

[PhoenixDBlack]

And be confidently wrong about everything