A Wild Jasper Appears

[jj_tesla]

@CoffeebyNight

I respect the attempt… but none of this matters to me. Before gAI existed, we’ve been doing all of those things quickly with automation. I’m still not seeing anything it can do that I couldn’t do before. Some things, easier for sure. But it hasn’t unlocked any new things for anyone.

No, I mean that the automation clauses are valid use cases for AI, including GenAI (because you’re generating a transcript).

Oh wait, maybe you meant “AI is fine for automation purposes like transcription and classification, but not marketing”, which I think makes sense, yeah, and I do agree with that. I think that’s another problem that a lot of people have nowadays: they’re just talking about different concepts altogether.

@CoffeebyNight

On a visual only level, yeah! I have many artist friends and if I shoved a camera in their hands, they’d be fine enough with automatic mode. Probably not manual. It is always SO pleasing when skills overlap, right?

Well, not always, of course, but you will have a significant overlap. Likewise, plenty of people who use AI to generate art also just randomly write prompts, whereas other people fine-tune all the little dials: the sampling steps, the guidance level, the negative prompts, the model version,
etc. This is quite complex.

@CoffeebyNight

They do still deliver mail, and goods are also mail! Package delivery has been baked in to mail services since forever, although it’s looked different in different time periods. We don’t use big wooden boxes to transport everything now, for example, but we do still get a delivery service to send it

Oh, they do? That’s interesting. Maybe things are different elsewhere. I do want this to be more common so we can return to an age of scented ink and stuff.

@CoffeebyNight

Thankfully, sensible people understand where AI is to blame and where it isn’t. People being laid off explicitly because the company wants to use AI, is the fault of AI. A lot of companies around the world are being very honest about it, because AI is the shiny new thing and they want to look ‘up to date’ and ‘modern’.

Thankfully I’ve not been on the receiving end of the layoffs because I run my own business (no staff on payroll to lay off, either)… but it’s so sad

I’m not sure if it’s different elsewhere, but at least in software companies it doesn’t seem like the case that “company wants to use AI, therefore you can go”. I’ve heard many other arguments like “cost-cutting” or “we want to be more flexible”. AI is just an excuse, and the latest in the line. I think these days hiring and firing is very easy, so companies hire a lot of people en masse, and then fire them. It’s a unique type of short-sightedness that’s made possible only with ridiculous amounts of funds.

@CoffeebyNight

De-Googling is important to any privacy and safety conscious person. I have many friends working in tech, and all agree that de-Googling is ideal I’d look into it if you’re privacy-conscious There’s a subreddit dedicated to it, you can find a ton of alternatives to everything Google, though Maps is still undefeated.

Personally, everything I own is offline. Except, you know, Steam Cloud Saves and mail. My Dropbox gets synced to two different devices each time it’s used.

I’m a little confused about the Adobe mention here. The entire Adobe suite (except for the home app to download updates) works offline. I don’t know anyone foolish enough to use the Adobe cloud for their saves.

Yeah, this sounds good. Yeah, you’re on the right track. But more people need to know about this. For a lot of people, De-Googling means ‘stop using Google Drive, go to Microsoft OneDrive’.

[jj_tesla]

Highly recommended. It’s VERY easy, and something I think everyone should do. In this new AI age, the main issue we’re facing is privacy concerns.

[jj_tesla]

Update: just gave my third Oracle exam. It went well, but it was hard. The second exam really heightened my confidence by throwing really easy questions.

Anyway, one more exam to go. I’ll give it tomorrow and then we’ll be-

Oh now, I have two more courses due.

Why do they want me to learn so much AI? I’ve given a talk at an international conference on AI, I’ve even built apps with Agentic AI systems capable of data querying and tool usage. I think at this point it’s safe to say I know more about AI than most people in Accenture.

[NotARussianBot]

I just learned that the weakest monster is the seahorse. Imagine how weak you’d have to be in order to lose a fight to a seahorse.

[jj_tesla]

Woah.

The first part kinda felt like being in a toilet, but the second part makes me wnat to analyse it for its symbolisms.

[jj_tesla]

“Hyenas are CR0”

Yeah, this tells me D&D needs some overhaul.

Fun fact: this rating system was the exact reason I started creating my massive animals list in the first place.

[LadyOfTheRiver]

also I find it annoying that ai sometimes doesn’t have memory? like if you start a new chat all the previous info is just gone

like if i’m working on a physics worksheet and I need to revise I need to use multiple chats to do so… but then as soon as I have the new chat open the previous amout of studying is gome and I need to explain to it all over again what I want from it…

[jj_tesla]

Yeah, it’s because the AI literally takes the entire chat into context. With some AIs like ChatGPT, you have RAG-enabled cross-chat search, but other AIs don’t have this kind of search.

[LadyOfTheRiver]

can you set up a local llm to bypass this?

[jj_tesla]

I guess you could come up with a system to do it, yeah. Just create a database of all your chats and responses and enable the AI to do a rag search. This isn’t possible with Gemma3 since that doesn’t support RAG, but I think Gemma4 might be able to.

[LadyOfTheRiver]

Hmm. Okay

[jj_tesla]

@NotARussianBot On a scale of 1 to 10, how much should I work on my custom D&D game variant?

I already have a few things in mind:

• There’s no mana, instead spells use morale, and that morale doesn’t go down once a spell is used. So you can technically keep casting spells infinitely, though there’s a catch.
• It’s my world, so more dinosaurs and other animals, and a lot of the story takes place in memorable places.
• No unique races, everyone’s just human. Or okay, maybe there are unique races, but they’re more like ‘tribes’ than races.
• The gods are highly syncretic, and more importantly non-existent. They’re more for mythological flavouring than forces that can affect the world.

[NotARussianBot]

Is it D20 or OSR?

[jj_tesla]

Probably OSR (I just googled that it is, and it sounds like what I think fits).

[NotARussianBot]

I would recommend Shadowdark or Old School Essentials.

[jj_tesla]

Got it, I’ll take a look into this.

[jj_tesla]

You all wanna know something funny? I’m a “senior software engineer” a role that requires 5-6 years of experience, but I only have 3.5 years of experience. This is because I got a fast-track promotion.

But now I can’t apply to any other company because they all need 5 years of experience for the senior software engineer role.

[LadyOfTheRiver]

kids these days

[NotARussianBot]

[jj_tesla]

I’m literally a 3.5 year old guy with 5 years of experience. I’m a recruiter’s dream. And I’m having a hard time finding a job (I mean it is my fault since I’m trying for visa sponsorship, but still).