Well said!
No one really cares about the semantics of AI intelligence.
All they care about is does this help me write code and the answer to that is yes.

There are species on this planet that most of us would love to live without. Mosquitos are one of them. Ticks and lice are too.
Since we can easily sequence the DNA, let's do it and keep the friggin' mosquitos in the DNA bank instead of on me.

Throwing a rock and throwing a gun at someone is the same crime. Firing a pistol at someone is different.

The Character.AI has a TOS that every customer receives.
This is very pertinent since the TOS covers the fact that it's not a real person you're talking to.
Sadly, anyone who's truly suicidal will figure out a way, chatbot or not.

Remember the internet circa 1990?
Lots of people said it was a fad, that it's just a curiosity that will eventually fade into obscurity.

Well...they were all wrong.

AI isn't just a new communications medium, it's a new way of thinking. It's a paradigm shift.
The difference is the 'killer' app for AI is something that out-thinks even the smartest human.

We're not ready for this.

Absolutely. I'm waiting for the day when cash cows like NYC stop sending money to the current idiots in Washington. If the West coast and New England seceded, the US would become a 3rd world country.

When setting up a new browser I usually switch to duck duck go but it's really easy to switch.

This is much ado about nothing, people are going to use whatever they like and right now that's AI search like Perplexity.

So I went to college. Not because I wanted an education but because my dad said you want to hang around with smart, motivated people.

He was so fucking right.

Went to the theater the other day after not going for years. It was great. The electrically reclining seats were so comfortable that I fell asleep instantly and awoke at the end of whatever crap movie it was.

There's no way to police AI content.

Therefore, what the point in a competition where some people use AI and some don't.

I've quit playing online games that are easy to cheat with AI.

A lot of people are going to have trouble with the fact that humans are no longer the smartest things on the planet.

Much more likely is that programmers and everyone else will use this technology to do as much work for them as cybernetically possible.

At the same time, any coding practices that are boring and time consuming (like exception checking, logging and testing) will still be done because AI works fast and doesn't get bored.

Lol, it's gotten so bad that I spend as much time in Linux as possible. I only run Windows if I want to play a game that's only on Windows.

I do use Linux. Unfortunately, Windows 11 automatically changes the boot order to put Windows at the top. Every time I use windows, I need to go back into the bios and change the boot order back to the Linux grub. What are they thinking?

Until you're stuck in NYC traffic for an hour just to go 10 blocks and watching bikes, scooters and pedestrians passing you up.

Yeah, there are plenty of open source models that can run on everyday GFX cards in 8GB. Just ask your favorite AI.
Why is this even a question?

Yeah, those were the days. We had a couple of teletypes dialed into an IBM 360 mainframe downtown.
We also had a PDP-8e with two teletypes. This was in what is now called Silicon Valley.
I learned Basic and Fortran on these in high school in the 70s.

What I thought was really cool back then were the mechanical calculators. There was one huge desktop model that would calculate square roots. All those gears and levers moving were like music to a young nerd's ears.