[neya]

I think a lot of people will not like to hear this but we use AI almost for everything internally. The noob way to go about this is just give it a couple of tasks and just give it complete root access to your life. That's always going to end up in disappointment. Instead, I realised, AI always needs an architect. Opinionated. Strategic. Authoritative.

It is quite good at following most orders. Hence why you must ALWAYS be in the loop. AI can augment, but not replace. Maybe some day it might. But it's not now, even with the latest SOTA models.

I let AI write my emails for me. But never the ability to hit send. I let AI access to my data to make informed decisions, but never let it make the final decision.

You may think I'm being paranoid, but I'm a very cautious person. I don't jump into new technology fresh out of the oven and this has served me well for the last 15 years. (I learned my lesson courtesy of MongoDb).

With AI, I am taking the same approach. Experiment, understand the limits and only then implement. Working really well so far and have managed to automate tons of tedious tasks from emails to sales to even meetings.

I don't use Clawdbot, not any library. I wrote my own wrappers for everything using Elixir. I used Instructor and Ash framework with Phoenix and a bunch of generators to automate tedious tasks. I control the endpoints the models are loaded from (Open router) and use a multi-model flow so no one company has enough data about me. Only bits and pieces of random user IDs.

Privacy is the real challenge with AI.

[sdf2df]

"I think a lot of people will not like to hear this..."

Lol why? You've been suckered in and will eventually crash and burn. But carry on.

Just remember when things go wrong - it's your ass on the line.

[neya]

Look, whether you like it or not AI is here and it is decent at some tasks and the world is using it to automate stuff. You saw how Clawdbot exploded, right? Despite users getting hacked left and right didn't stop the adoption. Yesterday there was again a hack incident. It's a burning pain that AI solves to the point where people don't care even if they get hacked.

Will I crash and burn? Maybe, you're right. But, that's why I'm taking things at a very slow pace. Only automating internal tasks. Only things I trust AI to do. Very very limited scope. What's really my alternative here?

Just sit back and watch the world move on? My alternative is not changing with the times and being stagnant. That's not really a solution. Even if I'm doing that, I want to have data points that AI is really a dead end instead of just assumptions. My alternative reality isn't a bed or roses - a lot of people at the top do believe they can replace me and my work (CTO) with AI, thanks to the hype. I'm just trying to evolve so I don't become a meme down the line. Can they actually replace me or my job with AI? Absolutely not from what I'm seeing. But hypes of cutting cost is always attractive to people at the top. Just trying to stay alive man, lol.

[toteroni]

how so?