Wednesday, April 8

Reddit

Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign

I have been coding for 11 years and I caught myself completely unable to debug a problem without AI assistance last month. That scared me more than anything I have seen in this industry.
News Feed, Reddit

I have been coding for 11 years and I caught myself completely unable to debug a problem without AI assistance last month. That scared me more than anything I have seen in this industry.

I want to be honest about something that happened to me because I think it is more common than people admit. Last month I hit a bug in a service I wrote myself two years ago. Network timeout issue, intermittent, only in prod. The kind of thing I used to be able to sit with for an hour and work through methodically. I opened Claude, described the symptom, got a hypothesis, followed it, hit a dead end, fed that back, got another hypothesis. Forty minutes later I had not found the bug. I had just been following suggestions. At some point I closed the chat and tried to work through it myself. And I realized I had forgotten how to just sit with a problem. My instinct was to describe it to something else and wait for a direction. The internal monologue that used to generate hypotheses, that voic...
McKinsey’s AI Lie Explains What’s Happening to Work
News Feed, Reddit

McKinsey’s AI Lie Explains What’s Happening to Work

Everyone thinks McKinsey just built 25,000 AI experts. They didn't. They took a 35-year-old internal database, put a natural language interface on top, and wrote a press release that every major business publication ran without asking a single follow-up question. This is the same play McKinsey has run for a hundred years. ERP in the 90s. Digital transformation in the 2000s. Big data in the 2010s. Each wave the same: new technology creates executive anxiety, McKinsey positions itself between that anxiety and the answer, and companies buy the trend to protect themselves when it fails. The future looks a lot like the past. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdKJaQkgJQ submitted by /u/AmorFati01 [link] [comments]
I am seeing Claude everywhere
News Feed, Reddit

I am seeing Claude everywhere

Every single Instagram reel or TikTok I scroll i see people mentioning Claude and glazing it like it’s some kind of master tool that’s better than every single other ai assistant. do they run a strong marketing program or is it really that good in contrast to other ai tools? Before i started seeing it for the first time i only heard that it’s a little better for coding, but know i see it everywhere. I've tried it too, but it doesn’t seem to be much different than ChatGPT to me. Is it actually this powerful at the moment? + Not to mention that many people also hate on ChatGPT too. Though it’s still the best one for me (edit): i have never searched for it and I dont think that my algorithm is set to appear claude videos. I believe that it’s viral in general and I know you guys agree submi...
People anxious about deviating from what AI tells them to do?
News Feed, Reddit

People anxious about deviating from what AI tells them to do?

My friend came over yesterday to dye her hair. She had asked ChatGPT for the 'correct' way to do it. Chat told her to dye the ends first, wait about 20 minutes, and then do the roots. Because of my own experience with dyeing my hair, that made me sceptical, so I read the instructions in the box dye package. It specifically said to mix it and apply everything all at once. That's how this particular formula is designed to work. I read the instructions on the package out loud and told her we should just follow what the manufacturer says. She got visibly stressed and told me that 'ChatGPT said to do it differently'. I pointed out that the company who made the dye probably knows how their own product is supposed to be applied. She still got visibly anxious about going against what ChatGPT told...
The AI Report