Are you using AI?

AI is my unpaid (I don't have subscription) research assistant and analysis tool.

A part time job maintaining a network has given me reason to use it. I don't recall exact command line syntax but AI does. Yeah it gets it wrong sometimes but for the most part especially working across multiple operating systems it gets me in the ball park to continue.

Got log files that require analysis, throw it to chatgpt and it evaluate and provide summary. Here is the output from five network iperf3 files, what do you see? response, the output appears to be limited to 100MB. Oh yeah, now I remembers that bottleneck.

My years remaining in supporting IT are dwindling. Learning MS365 is not necessary if all you need to do is fix a DNS records. Research assistant, were do I find that change area in the MS admin tools? Yep, right on the mark. 

What is the difference between tracert & traceroute? A detailed description without  opening a man page. A CLI output that took me years to master but still don't remember that syntax. YES!

I've also used it to write Arduino code. I am never very good at it manually. I know what I want and if I can explain it correctly AI gives me a baseline to tweak. I will be damned if I can explain the loops but it works. The challenge is to provide the detailed explanation to make it happen.

It has drafted policy documents. Create a policy for credit card use in non-profit. Done, ten bullet points. I can work with that as a start.

Stumbled upon this PDF parser that helps AI process documents. 
https://github.com/opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf

Have only tried it on a few documents so far, but things that were non-sesnse to the AI previously are actually interpreted much more accurately after parsing, when using the json file output. 

I don't know if it's any comfort at all, but I'm not the only one on that boat. Here is a great piece: human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/.../

This is the part of AI, I don't find helpful. Investors and founders who think they've found the next unicorn.  As for fl*x trying to flex... Good luck to them. Let them burn their cash...

No, not really. – Not yet.

Why? – I hate data theft and identity theft.

It's so much easier with any kind of AI.

Just record a few words you say, and you can use those stolen words to conduct business or commit other crimes.

And what if your face was also recorded? Well, then you're done for – the damage done can never be repaired.

Then there are arguments here – "Help with data analysis, help with creating tables, help with writing programs, etc..."

Help with writing programs?  – Well, then you might not be able to check if the AI ​​is programming a "black box," and

suddenly you have a nasty virus in your program that will never be detected. Cool! 

Okay, okay… one more question: Can AI really distinguish between true and false information?

“Yes, AI has a lot to learn.” – Sorry, but that argument is a bit dubious.

Yesterday, the news on TV reported that AI is already being used in pharmaceutical companies.
But the authorities are currently prohibiting its use because the AI ​​is mixing and suggesting poisons.

So, if no one checks what the AI ​​is actually doing, then medications will be produced that don't cure the sick, but instead cause even worse problems…

I really don't want to discuss this argument to death here.

So, YOU - the human must have every time the control over the AI.

The argument "faster" is not really the 1. argument.

Security and live is the domain.

Regards

Gerald

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I find AI does help with sub-circuits (text, I don't ask it to draw circuits since I don't believe that capability is there yet), and also to compare specs and to suggest parts so I can dig deeper.

Just saw this unfortunate thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121

No idea what it's about, but the theory there seems to be Adafruit may have tried a tool, and a firm doesn't seem to be happy about something. I do feel sorry for Adafruit.. personally I can't imagine they deserve legal threats over perhaps an AI tool but as mentioned I don't know the detail (and wouldn't be wise speculating much here, just leaving the link there in case anyone wishes to follow it there).

Most of this has been done with the GH Copilot integration  for VSCode with the model set to "auto" (which means that it will select the model based on my request, from the models available to me, which currently include several versions of Claude Sonnet and Opus and GPT-4 and 5).

I've tried selecting specific models for testing though, without really noticing much of an improvement.

Wouldn't this be another case where a written documentation would have been more useful in the long run?
A video is not searchable nor printable

I have code magazine subscription as well, it was packaged as a part of visual studio subscription. Unfortunately they don't mail the physical copy to India. That publication is useful for learning about dotnet/c# updates.

Which AI are you using for coding "assistance" ?

Thanks.

MK