But what if you switched to Linux to avoid having to use AI?

This is a genuinely incomprehensible take to me. You damn well better learn to use the tool, or you will be obviated by those that do (at least, as long as your job depends on it). Linux or no Linux.

Also, you are now using the tool that is best suited to "use AI". You will hit those rough patches, and it's good to know how to work through them. But sometimes there is just no time for such bullshit, and you now have a tool at your disposal that can just sweep these problems away. It is not without its downsides, but this is a clear "dumping the baby out with the bathwater" scenario.

Your post has the same energy of the old codgers who won't "learn computers" and impotently swim against the tide. It's fine if you want to do that (you do you), but you are swimming in the wrong direction IMO.

(If you don't work in tech, the magnitude of my recommendations would soften towards you in particular, but the velocity would remain the same.)

> "You damn well better learn to use the tool, or you will be obviated by those that do"

These vaguely threatening LLM promoter comments are almost like cultish "believe in $DEITY or you'll go to $PERDITION" preaching. It's just freaky.

I'm genuinely wondering what goes through their minds when they post this.

What goes through my mind is some combination of "Holy shit, this technology is incredible." and "Holy shit, this technology is retarded." and "If I don't stay on top of this shit, I'm going to lose my fucking job.".

On the other side of the fence, the aversion to using the tool seems equally cultish, like not working on the Sabbath.

If it makes you feel any better, I don't think this tech is "AGI" and that it seems to have some fundamental limitations that make it perform worse than a 3-year-old can perform on many tasks. But it's foolish to avoid something that could cause you to be replaced by some idiot that can do untold damage with just a few prompts, all because you didn't (assuming you work in tech) want to stay on top of the tools available to you.

But isn't the point of recurive self-improvement that you can fire people training your AI?

Correct, hence we don't have RSI yet. RSI'ing before you have RSI doesn't make a workable RSI.

Wouldn't that be censorship, too?

Strawberries are a well known weakness of LLMs, as they have a hard time to count the numbers of "r"s in them. Maybe that's why, because they fear that weakness could be exploited somehow.

I always thought this should be easier by telling it to write each letter one a new line, then count, any token separator ought to suffice, so much so you'd think they'd have trained in this strategy given tokens make individual letters opaque

Strawberries aren't the weakness, the weakness is the tokenization of a prompt. Any word with multiple duplicate characters is going to be troublesome for LLMs.

I think the parent is aware and was joking.

Probably need to be taught by someone of Latino origin. Learning to roll them "r"s could help.

2/3rds of all languages use rolled r's

2/3rrrrds of all languages use rolled r's

Really? I find that hard to believe and can't find a reference for it.