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I always need to laugh when I read "Agentic AI"
Oh wow. No shit. Anyway!
i use it for programming arduinos for my smarthome. its pretty nice but also aggravating.
AI companies and investors are absolutely overhyping its capabilities, but if you haven't tried it before I'd strongly recommend doing so. For simple bash scripts and Python it almost always gets something workable first try, genuinely saving time.
AI LLMs are pretty terrible for nearly every other task I've tried. I suspect it's because the same amount of quality training data just doesn't exist for other fields.
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The good news is: AI is a lot less impressive than it seemed at first.
The bad news is: so are a lot of jobs.
Wait, it was hyped? Not just ridiculed?
A VP and his taking head sycophants at my work has not shut up about it. They went through some trouble to automatically measure employee use of the AI and made it a performance measure. So now we have it generate code so we don't get fired and mostly throw it away.
Oh, I did not know hell was hiring.
I can't even get Copilot to write Vitest files for React without making a mountain of junk code that describes drivel.
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Writing apps with AI seems pretty cooked. But I've had some great successes using GitHub copilot for some annoying scripting work.
I think it's useful for writing mundane snippets I've written a million times or helping me with languages I'm less familiar with, but anything more compex becomes pretty spaghetti pretty quick.
AI is works well for mindless tasks. Data formatting, rough drafts, etc.
Once a task requires context and abstract thinking, AI can't handle it.
Eh, I don't know. As long as you can break it down into smaller sub-tasks, AI can do some complex stuff. Just have to figure out where the line is. I've nudged it along into reading multiple LENGTHY API documentation pages and written some fairly complex scripting logic.
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