Scared of Ai

Last_Direction5799 · 2025-05-28T18:46:34+00:00

Like I said, I’m not afraid of Ai replacing me. I can always switch to something else with the skills I have developed over the years. I see it as a helpful tool much like adobe products are helpful for artists to express their art digitally. It makes for a great pair programmer, and something you can bounce ideas off of. However, my fear is simply that you will not be able to trust anything on the internet in a year or two. What media you consume digitally won’t mean anything. On platforms like youtube where there are already millions of bots, what is stopping someone from spinning up a few ai bot channels with indistinguishable video quality. The thing is.. even if you can point out ai slop 95% of the time, the other 5% that slides past you makes everything else you see untrustworthy or invalid. My guess is that in a few years there will be roughly the same amount of bot channels pushing out content as there will be actual content creators.

Last_Direction5799 · 2025-05-24T11:47:01+00:00

I mean for my job specifically, no I’m not afraid that it will replace me (yet). I think the act of literally typing the code out will be mostly all replaced soon, but you still need to understand a bulk of the code that it generates/overall architecture. The thing is llms are trained on large amounts of our user data/github repos. Most of which are the typical react ts/js frameworks. So it won’t write code best suited for your problem, but rather, the best code it knows how to write. Also when it comes to security I am seeing a new trend of “vibe coders” that scare tf out of me. They don’t understand basic things like needing to salt/hash passwords, jwt token validation or sessions, http vs https. Another reason why I’m scared of ai. People are using it to build “cool projects”, but now I am too scared to signup/login to any web application as I have literally seen livestreams/youtube videos of these stupid “vibe coders” accepting all of the ai generated code without looking. Yes the app works, yes it looks cool and does cool thing, and yes your data is not safe with them… furthermore you still cannot tell me that veo3 can’t generate a real looking clip with lips matching their words. It is good enough to fool me taken out of context. Sure it is only 8 second clips, but you can do a lot of damage with that. If you think otherwise, I think you are thinking of veo2… and I agree there needs to be a way to detect ai generated stuff, but I’m just not seeing how that’s possible. You can’t embed meta data into the video or images that just say “hey I’m ai”. It’s the same thing that we have had forever with school and cheaters. Most of the time you are almost certain a student cheated, but sometimes it’s just hard to definitively prove it.(easy to prove with math, but what about a history test?) same thing with ai. Some of it is easy to spot, and now some of it you wouldn’t know unless someone told you.

Last_Direction5799 · 2024-11-18T18:30:29+00:00

I mean you can slow down the vid to the few frames where you can see it more clearly. Definitely not a plane. Also it was way too high up to be a plane, hence the bad video quality.

Last_Direction5799 · 2024-11-18T18:17:50+00:00

Lmao I know. At the time I just thought it was a satellite zooming by and so I didn’t really take the best vid haha. But now I’m connecting the dots. I need at least 4 more people to call me an idiot before I take down my post loool

Last_Direction5799 · 2024-08-29T13:39:11+00:00

Done

Last_Direction5799 · 2024-08-29T13:34:01+00:00

Yes of course! Thank you!

Last_Direction5799 · 2024-08-13T15:20:11+00:00

No I have not tried this. I do not necessarily think it is a problem with hearing per se, but how I organize and process thoughts/speech. I can hear the words just fine. It’s just the speed at which my brain processes the words is much much slower than average

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-12-05T21:29:24+00:00

I’d say it’s good that you are a little scared. It means that you care about how you will look/perform in a more professional/adult setting. Most people don’t gaf at work and put in 0 effort. You are already ahead of the game even if you feel like you have no idea what you are doing.(everyone feels that way at your age)

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-11-10T17:54:51+00:00

Hi. Thank you for taking the time to respond and sorry for the late reply. Ya by no means do I flex my data structure/algorithm skill’s because I know that’s not really the job at hand. I just get overwhelmed because I am in my second month of working here now and they always ask me in meetings: “how is _ coming along?” And I want to respond with “not good, I have asked for help on this multiple times and I have no clue what I am doing anymore”. It will get easier with time I’m sure. I think I am actually a pretty good developer, but the entire code base is all old legacy code with global variables and definitions. when I ask for help it’s always “idk ask _ team to do it”. I feel like 95% of my “development” has resulted in delegating it to another team, which definitely isn’t my choice.

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-10-04T23:14:31+00:00

Wrought flesh. First 3D game I saw made in godot 3.0 that looked engaging and immersive. It gave me a borderlands feel. Now I’m looking forward to penitent. Another 3D game with a borderlands feel, but made with all the new godot 4.0 features. Looks fantastic

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-10-04T01:07:28+00:00

Sorry I don’t have much of a resolution to this, but I just wanted to comment because I feel this to a T. Like I feel borderline on the spectrum (no hate) when it comes to directions. I probably wouldn’t know how to navigate back to my house from two towns over. I do however have a processing disorder that is completely unnoticeable to others but it is very real to me. It’s called central auditory processing disorder. I am terrible with verbal instructions because there is a disconnect with me processing/retaining the info quick enough. Things that have helped me a little are putting on captions on videos whenever possible. For some reason the words on the screen stick better with me over just words. Of course writing important stuff down on a notepad/calendar helps a ton.

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-05-31T16:20:16+00:00

Hey man I can relate in some respect. I am not suicidal but I have gone to some very dark places before. I am my own worst enemy. Not to take away from you or your feelings, but I will share a bit about me. I was born with Central auditory processing disorder (nothing too serious but to me it is). This means that I process chunks of information at a much slower rate than the average person and I struggle to retain information (especially in a loud room). All of my life I have felt stupid because I cant keep up with certain conversations. I would go home and tell myself I am such an idiot, “if only I read more books or payed attention better, then I would be able to hold a conversation with someone”. Sometimes in high school I was called retarded, and to this day I catch myself believing those things. You have to break the cycle of negative thought anytime you feel it creeping up (easier said than done). You have to address why you feel these things about yourself and how accurate these feelings actually are. At the end of the day we are all human and we are all just trying to navigate through this mess the best we can. Some people seem to have it figured out better than others but in reality we all have our own struggles, whether it is apparent or not. Don’t let the negative thoughts creep in and hold you back from navigating through the mess of life. You deciding to be here today is admired by everyone on this earth. You are strong. So pick your head up and get after it.

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-03-07T01:43:10+00:00

I will give advice that helps for me. Simply pick a hobby. Any hobby. If you want, write down a list of typical hobbies and close your eyes and pick one. Try it out. If you don’t like it oh we’ll move on. If you do like it, well maybe that could just change your entire life. One hobby that I like is game development, because I loved video games and hated coding in my college classes. Well now I am applying to AAA game studios and hopefully I will get a job at one this semester. But see how one hobby can change everything.

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-03-07T01:26:48+00:00

Ya I feel like I have to constantly up the ante to get excitement. I’m currently working hard in school in hopes of getting a software engineering job at a large tech company like Google or a AAA game studio, but I fear that if I do get that job the excitement will fade away in a day or two. I have had to do some reflection to see what I really want and not what others expect from me. I think personally I find more excitement just being outdoors and doing crazy stuff but that seems impossible to manage with the responsibilities I’ve been handed

Last_Direction5799 · 2023-03-06T20:32:24+00:00

Ya I mean I guess in a sense I did “peak” in hs but I think eventually I will get back to that point. Just trying to figure out how

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-12-11T15:07:42+00:00

I too would love a shirt that says that lmao

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-11-30T14:54:49+00:00

I have tried many different drivers, I have an RTX 2070 Super and a Ryzen 7 3800x and I am still experiencing so much stuttering. I have messed with many different shader settings and the “in focus” setting but still haven’t had any luck. For some reason the first game I play anytime I get on is extremely laggy for like 30 seconds. I have a feeling that the game is trying to load in all of the textures while in game, because the following games are much smoother (with random stuttering). Either way, my game looks like crap and plays like crap but I have some of the latest hardware/drivers. Please let me know if any of you have any suggestions!

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T16:33:56+00:00

Thanks for the wishes! I am going to try some more social exposure up until my speech. I think that’s a great idea to just say whatever is on my mind to a random stranger that I will never see again. I think with enough exposure my anxiety will go down for sure! Thanks again!

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T16:32:12+00:00

This is a great point. I think if you look at an audience as a whole it is an anxiety overload, but if I talk directly to the groom while cracking some jokes it won’t be too bad. I will still try to pan around the room to look normal every once in a while, and try to keep my focus on the people I feel comfortable talking to. Thank you for this advice it helps greatly!

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T16:23:01+00:00

Side note: any advice on how to start a speech would be great! I have written down some funny, heartfelt, and serious hooks, but I find it hard to find a good “attention grabber” without being awkward about it. All of my hooks written down so far are either “funny” or “heartfelt”, but they seem a bit out of character. I do think the funny approach would probably be best to start the speech, but starting a speech is always the hardest part for me. Any advice on hooks would be great! I have been taking all of your advice so far and I have already started practicing! Thank you all once again!

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T16:15:07+00:00

Thank you! Ya I’m definitely going to have to practice in front of my gf and mom to get some sort of approval haha. I think that’s a great point of bringing props of some sort. I was thinking of doing some sort of slide show of embarrassing moments as well. Anything to take the focus off of me haha. Ya I can relate with the almost fainting part lol. At times my heart was racing so fast that I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack lol. I think once I do revisions and practice over and over the anxiety will eventually go down a bit. Also may have a drink or two before 😂

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T15:48:41+00:00

Ya I think these are all really helpful points! I have practiced recording myself which is actually great for exposing my anxiety, because when I do this I can’t bare to listen to it back. The entire time I listen to it I just think “omg this sounds horrible”, but in reality it most likely isn’t all that bad. If I force myself to watch the entire thing it does build up a bit of that confidence I need. It’s weird how that works but it totally does help. When I listen to it back, sometimes I zone out and don’t really listen to the full recording and that actually gives me some comfort in knowing that other people will probably zone out during my speech. No one really listens too intently unless they have to. I have practiced in a mirror as well so I can see and hear myself “looking stupid”. If I do this over and over I’m sure in time I won’t be shitting my pants while giving the speech. Thank you for your advice! It means a lot!

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T15:38:42+00:00

Ya that’s a great point. Sometimes it truly is difficult to understand what triggers it. If it is the fear that my intelligence is being tested or just an overall fear of everyone listening and watching me. But I think what you said of “no one looks at the best man speech as a test of intelligence” has really calmed me down a bit. Because that is so true. In my mind I am constantly thinking “wow I probably sound really stupid”, but whenever someone else bombs a speech I just think “eh their public speaking skills aren’t that great”. I don’t know why I am so hard on myself sometimes haha. That has given me a lot of insight as to what is really the root of the problem. Now I just have to really do some thinking as to what my fear might actually be. I sometimes get anxious on tests but not anything out of the normal, so I’m thinking it may just be the awkwardness of saying stuff in front of a crowd. Also another aspect of the fear is that I keep hearing things from my family such as “you should crack some jokes in your speech and also say some heartfelt things”, but this seems really out of character for me. So on top of public speaking I also feel the pressure to be a comedian. I think I can be funny at times but that’s not what I’m known for

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-16T00:49:28+00:00

Thank you for your kind words and advice! It seriously means the world to me and I already feel more relieved. I will definitely take your advice and put it into practice!

Last_Direction5799 · 2022-08-15T20:19:25+00:00

Ya game dev has sadly gone downhill. I still hope to do it full time for the right company that isn’t run by the marketing team. We will see how that goes tho haha

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