Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
Nah, that would be like refusing to use a calculator, because they make them from unrecyclable plastic.
Bad comparison, it’s like refusing to use a calculator because it uses 200 times the amount of energy of existing calculators, was trained on stolen data, and despite all that gets the answer wrong
Calculators are also known to get some answers wrong.
Stolen data is not a tech problem, it’s a legal problem.
And it’s not 200 times more power. Maybe 5 years ago it was. But it is being wastefully used by burning capital.
That’s why the bubble needs to pop. So the true cost/value equation comes into play. It should probably cost 5 times what it currently costs from the big providers. It will cut down on the waste significantly.
The problems with AI is not the tech. It’s unregulated Capitalism that has hijacked it.
200 was hyperbolic.
I’ve seen AI get incredibly basic shit wrong though.
Calculators won’t miscount the number of O in strawberry, genAI confidently will.
GenAI is not a math machine. It’s an inference engine.
Still can’t do basic stuff that existing solutions can though
I can’t grow a baby, but it does not make me useless.
It would if you’re being sold as a baby machine
Gen AI is being sold as an answers machine, yet literally fucks up in catastrophic and occasionally lethal ways, “hallucinating” complete falsehoods
We need to stop evaluating AI based on what it is sold as by the bro-vestor.
It is not intelligence and never will be. It’s an tools that when use in the correct context and under good guidance, is a fantastic productivity enhancer.
But it’s not a Hal9000, or an Andromeda. Don’t expect it to be a horse, when it is clearly a car.
I have not had an AI hallucinate on me in months. Because I always make sure it has a good brief and reference info and that the context window is not exceeded, and that if the context window does get exceeded, that it re-grounds itself on the reference information and asks for human guidance.
AI hallucinations are mostly operator error these days, either using it incorrectly, not giving it sufficient guidance or asking it to do things it’s not suitable for.
For example, you would never want to use AI when your inputs and outputs have predictable criteria. You would pass those through a normal logic tree.
Where an AI would be suitable is trying to Triage situations where the logic gets an unhandled use case. It would evaluate the inputs and consider if any of the outputs sufficiently matched the inputs criteria. If it can’t it marks it as a genuine exception. But a human still needs to give it the correct guiding criteria.