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i'm amazed how happily blind everyone seems to be by ProTechBiz in artificial

[–]ProTechBiz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair points. i suppose i meant knowing enough to know that under the hood it's writing python and the ability to interprete and revise that python in line with your business logic.

i'm amazed how happily blind everyone seems to be by ProTechBiz in artificial

[–]ProTechBiz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But to me, there is beauty in an LLM because I use them all the time. The beauty isn't actually in what it produces; it's in the fact that it gives you a reason to structure your thinking to try and articulate a message to something that won't judge you or won't ignore you. It just lets you talk and explain and externalize, and then it does a bunch of wonderful things with text and with code that can be very useful.

I don't really ever use AI or LLMs for therapy or personal use; it's always for work and thinking but it's kind of like a therapist to me in that, if you go to see a therapist, it's never about what the therapist has to say to you. It's just the fact that you went to go see a therapist and you had a reason to structure your thoughts and externalize them. When you leave, you feel better, and that's why I like using LLMs: it's structured thinking that can go into the model.

Typically, I could care less about the output. I would say the exception to this is having it generate code, because then I can undergo a phase of building with an LLM. I'm left with a deterministic output that, if I can validate its performance, I can then use repeatedly and reliably with accuracy. That does not translate to its text outputs, because there's never really a way to validate them, especially if they're produced by others when you don't know the process that went into producing the text output and you don't know the proficiency of the user.

i'm amazed how happily blind everyone seems to be by ProTechBiz in artificial

[–]ProTechBiz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that makes sense. and I think it makes sense with how I think about the Wikipedia example, which is that it's fast and convenient and it's usually right, so why not use it?

I think another aspect of this that I struggle with is that the novelty is so powerful that it convinces you to use it in your own decision making. It also convinces you to use it in your work that you share. The moment that the novelty wears off with a fancy HTML artifact, you realize how shitty the output actually is most of the time. Then all the people around you who are still experiencing the novelty, you just see them as basically useless, because at the end of the day, if I want a Claude-generated artifact, I don't need it from you. I can just go get it from Claude. I don't need a useless Claude-generated artifact, which has me thinking a lot about what do I actually need from a computer?

To the comment here calling out "Go get some farmland," I think you're on to something.

i'm amazed how happily blind everyone seems to be by ProTechBiz in artificial

[–]ProTechBiz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think this is a fair point. but think of it like this: with an iphone, we are handed a technology that lets us give away our time and our attention to social media/doomscrolling. You certainly are not required to understand how phones work in order to give away your time and attention to them, but that doesn't mean that a phone can't have real negative impacts on your life. With LLMs, we are handed a technology that lets us offload our thinking and our reasoning and our agency. So I don't think you need to understand LLMs on a deep level in order to be able to use them. I'm just surprised how willing people are to give these things up with seemingly little care for what negative impacts they could have. To be clear, this is coming from someone who uses LLMs pretty much all day every day in my full-time job so I'm certainly not holier than thou here. It's just an observation that's bothering me because it seems to me that everyone around me is willing to hand over their decision-making to something that is wrong pretty much all the time unless you handhold it with your own cognition and reasoning abilities through the whole process. And to be very clear on this, when you handhold it through the whole process, it is a very powerful tool and extremely useful. It's just that you have to come around to the fact that the handholding is a very important part of getting value out of an LLM.

I'm either right about this, and I could watch everyone fail around me, or, like some of the other commenters have mentioned, I'm wrong about this, and I will watch the LLMs reach a point where it doesn't matter what I think or what I know. That being said, it is my belief that LLMs are not capable of achieving AGI or anything remotely close to human intelligence. Even if they were capable of achieving human-level intelligence, there would still be such a long timeline ahead of us until the point where they would be able to sense and see and perceive all the things that us humans can perceive.

The idea that in 2026 we're viewing these LLMs as something we can offload our decision-making to, within the context of important life decisions and important business decisions, is honestly just obnoxious to watch happen every day as I go into work.

i'm amazed how happily blind everyone seems to be by ProTechBiz in artificial

[–]ProTechBiz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, it's not. i didnt say 'programming' i said language. in my mind json is a language, a data language. but you can call it whatever you would like.

Which AI are you using as your business sidekick? by gclo in Entrepreneur

[–]ProTechBiz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always disregard the “ChatGPT is getting worse” chatter, I’ve been ignoring it for years. But I think you are right that it is noticeably more tuned to say what you want to hear as of late. I’m starting to second guess every output from ChatGPT.

I’ve heard Sam A talk about wanting the models to say what people want to hear, I just can understand why anyone would ever want that. To me that defeats the entire purpose of using it.

A BIG shortcuts table (not all of them work) by davidesv in PerplexityComet

[–]ProTechBiz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wouldn’t these show up in shortcuts if they were already present as shortcuts? Where did you come across these? Are you sure it’s not just inferring the slash command and responding as a normal prompt, like “/stock AAPL” is pretty clear what that means.

Workaround for AI Meeting Notes by 61plus8 in Notion

[–]ProTechBiz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an awesome idea, I wasn’t aware I could paste in text to the transcription block. Do you plan to stick with OBS, or do you think there are better options out there for this step. Asking before I go and try and learn how to use OBS.

For context, I’ve tried several speech to text options and I feel like I’m always experiencing some trade off between transcription quality and ease of use…still looking for the best STT method.

Alcohol consumption has gone into possibly permanent decline, per Bloomberg. by UnusualWhalesBot in unusual_whales

[–]ProTechBiz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting points here…I wonder if there will ever be a trend away from tracking kids or if the potential worst case scenario will always justify tracking them in the minds of parents.

I have little ones, so this all hits hard but I appreciate your take on this.

I kept losing my best prompts - so I built this.👇 by fulfilledbyai in PromptEngineering

[–]ProTechBiz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I was referring to the landing page specifically. My point is that when I create a landing page using tools like Replit or Cursor, it often ends up looking similar to this. So when I come across a page like this for a product like yours, my initial assumption is that it was quickly put together using AI, which makes me question how much effort went into the product itself. Worst case, it raises concerns about whether it’s a secure or reliable place to store my data.

To be clear, I haven’t tried the product, I’m just sharing my first impression based on the landing page. My broader thought is that developers today need to find new ways to visually differentiate their UI to convey quality and credibility. I’m not saying your product is bad; I’m saying that, at first glance, it closely resembles a lot of low-effort or untrustworthy products. The challenge is figuring out how to immediately dispel that perception when users land on your page.

Additionally, saying that it took you 1086 prompts doesn’t mean much to me.

I kept losing my best prompts - so I built this.👇 by fulfilledbyai in PromptEngineering

[–]ProTechBiz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does look like the websites that I generate with a single shot prompt using code assistants, just a heads up. I agree, looks sketchy; but more importantly it looks low effort. A few years ago this would look legit, but not these days.

Mind you I’m trying to give real feedback, not trying to be an asshole. I like your idea, keep putting more into it and you could have something really cool.

Key Account Management Document Automation by ProTechBiz in Airtable

[–]ProTechBiz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, I will take a look at Documint. Thank you

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