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by ikt 579 days ago
I get what you're saying, I was watching this the other day:

Titanic (1997) - Iceberg,Right ahead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYOn3-PhA9c

It's all so incredibly manual, from the guys who literally stand at the front of the ship just looking out for icebergs, to the man running and pulling on a giant ringing lever of some kind to tell the engine room what to do, the guys in the engine room running around in a panic, yelling orders across the room, turning giant wheels, the levers being pulled to shut the engine down, the guys manually shovelling coal stopping and shutting the boilers... it's all so manual

Meanwhile today a majority of that is fully automated and/or a few clicks of a button

The movie would be a hell of a lot more boring today!

Titanic 2024 edition:

Some random person most likely: Iceberg right ahead!

Random staff member: We know... we're going around it

But your comment reminds of this:

What will AI Programming look like in 5 Years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaedq1Jl2fc

It's the same I see with ICE engines vs EV's, and smart phones and laptops compared to desktops

All the manual work in the world is going away... but I guess if you're really itching for manual work farming and the trades don't seem to be going anywhere... yet

As to AI, I quite like it, I use:

https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all

Which runs LLM's on my local PC which is running on my solar and solar battery, so no co2 emissions ^^

and as I have trouble learning, sometimes I have to search for 5 to 10 websites explaining something before I 'get it', with AI it helps for me to poke it and go, explain this, almost like a second person is there just to try and help, sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.

Same with coding, sometimes it might just give me an idea or a thought that I wouldn't of had without it that gets me closer to where I want go.

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Great post