Comment by 🚀 stack
I think we are in 'uninformed euphoria' stage with AI.
Once the dust settles and someone goes bust we will see that yes, AI can replace the support guy in India that tells you to unplug the router. Also that it can write ok code when prompted really well, but writing and rewriting a good prompt while regression testing takes perhaps more effort than writing the code.
There are people who will say "I am not a musician but I can program this sequencer to play a song in a couple of days", and there are musicians who pick up an instrument and play.
Programming is a great time saver: you invest time and effort upfront and millions of computers can run your code at incredible speed, for many users. Plus you can often apply what you've learned next time
Prompting AI is metaprogramming. You invest time and effort and a single AI slowly creates unproven code that needs to be reviewed and tested. And when you get it right, not much can be used next time.
Mar 17 · 7 weeks ago
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👻 darkghost · Mar 17 at 20:18:
The chemist in me is here to point out that forever chemicals are the precursors used in the production of said pan and not in the pan itself. The reason forever chemicals are bad for the environment because corporations going to corporation and not the properly dispose of these precursor chemicals. The net harm to society for these pans and these corporate calculations is far worse than all the seasoning of all the cast iron in the world.
I'm sure we will talk about corporations corporating with respect to AI and doing harm because it's cheaper.
Fuck AI.
I sincerely mean that. I don't care if there's some legitimate use anymore. Doesn't mean a lot when getting there means making everybody's lives worse in the meantime.
Just throw it all in the trash.
🐦 JustASillyBird · Mar 20 at 22:48:
There were people in the 90s warning about the possible dangers of PFAS in cookware. They were just dismissed as backwards progress-haters or all-natural hippies. The adverts promised the pans were safe, and surely the government wouldn't let a hazard substance be sold to the public in food preparation equipment like that?
Bird owners always knew about the risk, as birds tend to drop dead in the presence of an over-heated teflon pan. Birds have an extreme sensitivity to airborn toxins - thus their use as gas detectors in mines.
But who is going to listen to a bunch of bird enthusiasts when DuPont is spending millions to supress and discredit such threats to their lucrative product line?
👻 darkghost · Mar 20 at 23:13:
Well the overheating is a different mechanism from PFAS. PFAS resembles fatty acids to the body, but it is unable to chemically break it down, thus it just accumulates. Over a long time it does genetic, liver, and kidney damage. Acute problems can happen in high doses like black teeth.
Overheating releases PTFE fumes, partially decomposed and depolymerized. This causes acute symptoms. Most people aren't exposed long term to the fumes.
Overheating will also kill any canaries you may own.
Oops. just saw the previous post.
If your teeth turn black, try the black charcoal toothpaste for a moment of comfort.
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Frying p-ai-n — People are talking about Claude Code the way they talked about a non-stick pan in the 90s "Holy shit, I can’t believe people don’t use this pan, they’re gonna fall behind so far, cleaning their stupid cast iron pans, gee" "Oh my, this pan makes me 10x productive! I can now roast, sear, fry, braise, which previously I would have had to hire someone to do to get the job done, look at me, I can do all of it myself!" "So I set up this new MCP (meat charring pan) and now I can just...