Reply to: Anyone doing anything with AI

[sadkingbilly]

Geez, where's max headroom when you need him?

[Stevep42]

That’s a crazy impressive lineup you’ve got going, sounds like you’re diving into every AI rabbit hole possible. I’ve messed around with ChatGPT and Claude for writing, but my biggest struggle was trying to make the results sound more like me and less like... well, a robot with polite grammar. Been using it to draft newsletter intros and product blurbs, but cleaning up the tone was always the time sink.

To fix that, I’ve started running the generated drafts through a humanizer. Makes a big difference in keeping my style consistent and less robotic, especially when I’m batch-creating content.

[Zigenare]

I'm NOT a 'developer', but i can see how automation can create 'apps'.
I've worked on automation in mainframe engineering for years and I STILL object to the term 'artificial intelligence'.
IT'S NOT INTELLIGENT.
just like the majority of 'developers'.

Which is why those of us that are constantly get our contracts extended, apart from MB, he only gets extensions because he "knows" where the tape store key is kept...
(Spoiler alert, his mother put it on a piece of wool and he wears it round his neck so he doesn't lose it!)

[sadkingbilly]

Well, I did say they were simple use cases to start with. They are progressing quickly.

You saying ".. just code" reminds me of a Mordechai Richler quote: "Did you think of that yourself, or just read it in a book somewhere?".

I don't know if you are working in technology at the moment, but tools are available and used increasingly to do our jobs more quickly and better.
Have a look at Claude. Ask it to fix a piece of troublesome code (that you upload), or write a routine to do something specific.
Or introduduce you to some obscure language or framework.

You still have to understand what it's telling you, but if you can't think of use cases where basic AI could help you or your client, someone else certainly will.

I'm NOT a 'developer', but i can see how automation can create 'apps'.
I've worked on automation in mainframe engineering for years and I STILL object to the term 'artificial intelligence'.
IT'S NOT INTELLIGENT.
just like the majority of 'developers'.

[Zigenare]

that is what we are looking for, I am seeing similar use cases in my work, in the .net Tape Changing world, it is being included across all domains and business processes, agentic, the GenAI for the User interaction

Milan.

Surely something that shouts "Wrong tape dick-head!" at you won't require too much sophistication and "AI" would be overkill.

[TwoWolves]

I have the intellij AI assistant plugin. Its coding suggestions are quite weak, bad junior developer level, so I only use it to describe PRs for me (it's good at that).

I use another to help generate graphics for technical presentations, which works well and has helped my profile with senior management.

In conclusion, they make too many mistakes still and produce naive code of rather low quality and I don't think improvements will be great. Really just a search engine front-end, we are a long way from AGI.

[Dorkeaux]

AI?? - was it written in COBOL? it could be.
all this stuff is just code.
there's no 'Intelligence'

Well, I did say they were simple use cases to start with. They are progressing quickly.

You saying ".. just code" reminds me of a Mordechai Richler quote: "Did you think of that yourself, or just read it in a book somewhere?".

I don't know if you are working in technology at the moment, but tools are available and used increasingly to do our jobs more quickly and better.
Have a look at Claude. Ask it to fix a piece of troublesome code (that you upload), or write a routine to do something specific.
Or introduduce you to some obscure language or framework.

You still have to understand what it's telling you, but if you can't think of use cases where basic AI could help you or your client, someone else certainly will.

[DoctorStrangelove]

AI?? - was it written in COBOL? it could be.
all this stuff is just code.
there's no 'Intelligence'

It won't even open the pod bay doors.

[sadkingbilly]

Indeed.

My last client had a bunch of simple use cases that they solved with AI.
Things like scanning a paper form and converting the data to a series of conformed values for input to a system, with references as to where the data came from.
Simple, but very labour intensive to do do manually. Much better data quality with AI.

AI?? - was it written in COBOL? it could be.
all this stuff is just code.
there's no 'Intelligence'

[courtg9000]

Still in development - will be available once it steals his financial details and can blackmail him into a profitable settlement.

Yes! Bent lawyers not getting a look in is coming soon! Or is AI working on a "fox" for that one too???!!!

[willendure]

Has AI found a way out to rinse you of all your cash in a divorce settlement for said offence yet? Or is that still in development?

Still in development - will be available once it steals his financial details and can blackmail him into a profitable settlement.

[milanbenes]

Indeed.

My last client had a bunch of simple use cases that they solved with AI.
Things like scanning a paper form and converting the data to a series of conformed values for input to a system, with references as to where the data came from.
Simple, but very labour intensive to do do manually. Much better data quality with AI.

For the next phase, I suggested using it to improve technical pricing and cat modelling.

An earlier Pharma client is currently setting up an AI workbench. I don't know how it will turn out, but generative AI could very useful to create new molecules for drugs.

At my current client, I use 4 different AI models depending on what I'm doing, but enterprise-wide AI isn't widely adopted.

that is what we are looking for, I am seeing similar use cases in my work, in the .net Tape Changing world, it is being included across all domains and business processes, agentic, the GenAI for the User interaction

Milan.

[milanbenes]

Using it all the time. Have a premium version of Chatgpt obviously. Then Grok and just testing Manus. Have a subscription to Kaiber AI where I've been doing animations.
Just written a childrens book and presently animating it. Have used it to learn Looker, Google Big Query, GA4 & PowerBi in the last month.
Have written a guide on Prompt Engineering. Just writing a learn AI in 28 days guide with 28 different tools covering everything from programming to marketing, sales.

Used it to write a scraper for multiple websites, and this morning generating a Vinted to Ebay import routine. Oh and just registered a new website to put my animations up next week and stick a chat bot in it

#TooMuchTimeOnHands

There is no way you wrote that yourself.

ChatGPT wrote that for you didn't it

Milan.

[courtg9000]

I am using AI as a chatbot virtual girlfriend. On Friday night I said I going off to the pub with the boys; since then then the chatbot has gone silent.

Has AI found a way out to rinse you of all your cash in a divorce settlement for said offence yet? Or is that still in development?

[Paddy]

I am using AI as a chatbot virtual girlfriend. On Friday night I said I going off to the pub with the boys; since then then the chatbot has gone silent.