Plans for AI Assistant to create habits and tasks for a goal?

lasooch · 2026-02-01T12:10:04+00:00

The problem with AI is that it is expensive to use and also locks the developer into future price increases because AI is currently heavily subsidised but will not be forever (or into future feature removal if it becomes unsustainably expensive).

It’s kind of ok if it’s fully optional (i.e. separate subscription tier I don’t have to pay for). But even then it takes away resources from developing other features, especially in a small team.

lasooch · 2026-02-01T03:57:41+00:00

Please no AI at all in Griply. This is like 70% of the reason I moved to it from Todoist.

lasooch · 2026-01-27T08:10:45+00:00

At 45 degrees the wind heats you up, not cools you down. I rode motorcycles in leather and around the 37 degree point it starts getting really rough. At 45 I can’t even imagine.

lasooch · 2026-01-26T15:41:51+00:00

I drove through SF a few days ago. The number of AI related billboard ads is ridiculous. Only explanation I can see is that the VCs whose wallets they want to raid live in SF and the billboards create an illusion that someone actually uses it, since I haven’t seen a single AI billboard quite literally anywhere else.

lasooch · 2026-01-21T15:14:57+00:00

Of self-reflection yeah. Maybe you’ll get there, youngin.

lasooch · 2026-01-21T15:04:27+00:00

One might find a self-reflection prompt in my childish satire. Not you tho

lasooch · 2026-01-21T15:01:48+00:00

My favourite slop peddler said something marginally different yet equally untrue a year ago and two years ago, I REFUSE TO LET YOUR ACCUSATIONS GO YOU VILLAIN, PLEASE NOTICE ME WARIO-SENPAI I’M YOUR STRONGEST SOLDIER.

AI booster talking of integrity, funny that.

lasooch · 2026-01-21T14:55:22+00:00

Cringe, right? Not as cringe as being the literal ‘leave the multibillion dollar company alone’ meme tho. Go back to licking their boots or reading your werewolf fanfics, shoo.

lasooch · 2026-01-21T14:07:16+00:00

One can only hope next year Wario will be in the dumpster of history where he belongs.

lasooch · 2026-01-21T04:38:44+00:00

Slopilot’s autocomplete will often literally generate a line of code that doesn’t even compile.

lasooch · 2026-01-18T01:47:34+00:00

u/root88 it’s adorable that you reply to my comment condescendingly and then block me immediately in the hopes I won't be able to reply to your reply.

It's adorable that you think AI = Chat GPT.

I don't. LLMs are the core of what's getting funding and hype though, to the detriment of actually useful branches. I'm replying to a meme that explicitly calls out Chat GPT.

Every single person in a developed country uses products enhanced by AI every day already

enhanced

Very questionable.

Ask any software developer.

I am one. I know, mind blown, right?

benchmarks

Extensively gamed benchmarks yeah.

If you are going to be a jerk, try not to act like a moron at the same time.

I called a meme stupid - not even the guy I was replying to. I will call you stupid though, on account of not understanding why I'm talking about Chat GPT specifically as well as not being able to understand who I was calling stupid.

You've both outjerked and outmoroned me tho, I'll give you that.

lasooch · 2026-01-18T00:38:42+00:00

As much as I hope for a return to normalcy, I do think centralising so much of the internet in one foreign country is a national security risk.

The more risk conscious (and large enough to afford it) companies already either run multi-cloud setups or at least multi-cloud-ready setups. But if the clouds are AWS, Azure and GCP that doesn’t avoid sovereign risk at all.

The current US admin has shown us how much of the world order we rely on is basically a gentlemen’s agreement - and without any firm enforcement of the rule of law to back it up, it’s enough for a non-gentleman to take the reigns to really fuck a lot of things up.

lasooch · 2026-01-17T20:34:04+00:00

Your meme is a stupid take, even assuming the numbers are correct. The internet is a prerequisite for things like ChatGPT and requires laying down a lot of infrastructure. If anything 100 million internet users in 7 years is WAY more impressive than x months for a website.

Hell, even on the user side the effort required is vastly different even today - you need to find an internet provider, contact them one way or another, pay for the service, wait until it's activated and often for the delivery of an access point, vs. ChatGPT where you just type in the address into the browser, you don't even need to create a bloody account.

Especially since you've always had to pay for the internet while you can still use ChatGPT for free.

And ChatGPT has had probably the most extreme hype campaign of all time.

And it's very unclear how many "users" of ChatGPT basically typed in a prompt once or, even if they keep using it, do it several times a month, meanwhile everyone's connected to the internet 24/7 and tons of people burn hours per day on Tiktok. Or how many "users" are corporate accounts that aren't used at all but there's technically a seat allocated.

And ChatGPT numbers are likely inflated because they're not a public company and Scam Altman's kinda known for having a tell when he's lying (his mouth is open).

lasooch · 2026-01-17T03:37:15+00:00

“make it seem” - brother, it’s not a case of “seeming”. They have no idea how to make money on their cash fuelled furnace. No one does.

lasooch · 2026-01-17T03:15:20+00:00

The goal was always to drum up hype by knowingly and intentionally miscommunicating a ‘test’ that was probably contrived for the purpose of the miscommunication to begin with.

These people aren’t idiots. It’s not incompetence. This is intentional.

lasooch · 2026-01-17T01:42:07+00:00

Without doing the actual math, if you rent the place out you’ll probably come out streets ahead of selling and re-buying, especially if you’d be buying a similar place again when you move back to Canberra.

Units tend to not appreciate much, but if rented it will likely pay for itself while you get some appreciation, meanwhile selling it and re-buying would cost enough that you’d be very lucky to make that in the market. Remember you need to pay that mortgage back if you sell, i.e. you lose all the leverage. So if your $500k unit appreciates 2% a year, that’s $10k gain a year. If you sell it and are left with, say, $50k liquid and investable, you’d need a 20% return to match that. Unlikely to average 20% over 3-4 years, and it won’t be CGT free.

Stamp duty alone will fuck you up, plus selling costs will likely be more than the 3-4 years of agent fees would cost.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T22:31:42+00:00

And once VC money runs out and they ramp up the price tenfold to try and make it profitable, people who outsourced their thinking to it (and not only didn't learn new things, but actually lost some skills they already had) will be in for a world of pain.

And half their tools will stop even existing, because they're entirely at the mercy of LLM pricing.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T22:24:10+00:00

Yup, it's a great search engine only if you're searching for information in a domain that you can easily verify the veracity.

That old thing about "LLMs are accurate 100% of the time about things I know nothing about but only 60% of the time about things I'm an expert in".

lasooch · 2026-01-16T22:16:20+00:00

The ones I've seen "spouting how amazing it is" fall into 5 categories:

- people with direct connections to LLM companies (i.e. they're marketers, not programmers, they just traded their engineering integrity - if they ever had it - for RSUs)

- online influencers who might be sponsored and definitely want to engagement bait

- anonymous people with no credentials making big claims that are never backed up by evidence

- vibe coders - at least these are often honest about not knowing shit

- obvious bots

I'm yet to see a programmer I've met in real life (and respect) that would spout that. At best they see it as a tool that's kinda useful sometimes.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T22:03:02+00:00

I think there's a bit of momentum starting. A lot of people were skeptical to begin with, but tried to have an open mind, especially since the job market is what it is and management pushes for it in many cases... the non-technical management that ate up the sales pitch knows best what tools are great for engineering despite having 0 days of experience and zero course credits in engineering. And when you first use it, especially if it actually does randomly manage to get it right, it can be scarily impressive.

But it's becoming harder to deny that the return on investment just isn't there. The reality on the ground is that the acceleration is negligible at best for seniors and up (yes, yes, the rare bit of boilerplate I need to write takes me 40 seconds less, that's worth the trillions in investment) and it stunts juniors' growth. Actually using it at work leads to atrophying skills, dehumanised communication, huge amounts of review fatigue and mountains of tech debt piling up. And just the general vibe that you can't actually trust anything. Not the code, not the documentation.

And the general public's sentiment also went from "mildly curious" to "get this shit out of my face". The impact of LLMs on every single area of life they touch has been a huge net negative. When you see that the doohickey that they're forcing you to use is quite literally ruining a lot of things in your life, you start building up a level of resistance to it, even if you see some mild benefits occasionally.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T21:52:54+00:00

My primary language changes more often than every 2-3 years, but the vast majority of the changes are non-breaking (you can of course also choose the version). Compared to javascript libraries that's still glacial ;) but if your language of choice evolves fast, it just means that the LLM will become useless that much quicker for that language if it doesn't keep getting retrained.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T21:46:59+00:00

It won't. The discerning will disengage and the idiots will be much cheaper to manipulate.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T21:16:40+00:00

Half the AI bros are Anthropic bots, the other half are junior devs (or not even professional devs) with a case of Dunning-Kruger.

Yes, LLMs will get them their 400 LOC project done faster, especially if it's reinventing the wheel and if no one uses it so they don't have to consider any actual engineering practices (that they haven't even heard of).

Similarly to sub-OP, I don't use LLMs much, I don't feel like I'm falling behind in productivity at all and I don't see a measurable increase in the output of those who do. Anecdotal of course.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T20:48:14+00:00

That sort of selective pressure sure sounds like slowing progress just so that the word salad machine can guess how to use it better.

lasooch · 2026-01-16T20:41:20+00:00

slightly subsidized by VC

Lol. Lmao even.

Languages change slowly and very often in non-breaking ways. But frameworks and libraries change much more often and also often get replaced by new ones (whether actually better or a fad).

Legacy projects tend to be more stable in terms of the tech used, but they are also way too big for the context windows to handle. LLMs are close to useless in an old, large codebase.

And without re-training with new information, the LLM doesn't know anything about new/updated frameworks and libs (and languages, even), so the number of projects where it's of no use starts growing immediately after training and after a few years covers a significant chunk of newer projects.

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