Anonymous A started this discussion 3 weeks ago#134,252
the less desire I have to want to contribute for free on any public endeavor or help someone who's technologically illiterate.
My dad always said that when anybody is about to ask you for any kind of work/task, the first question that should come out of their mouth is "How much?" as in "How much to get xyz fixed?" How much for a simple file rename program?"
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 4 minutes later[^][v]#1,429,756
Ngl, it’s kind of painful as a CS student to listen to people say stuff like "if you don’t use AI to code you’re a dinosaur there’s no way anybody can code better than AI" and then you watch them try to get a web server running by prompting a chatbot and it just doesn’t work.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,429,759
I by no means am not a CS student myself, nor am I super tech/prog savvy. I operate under the principle of "as long as you know how to read and understand, you have a chance at surviving."
if I offload every aspect of my life to AI then I might as well use a wheelchair to get around even though I can full sprint.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,429,762
I solved the problem of helping people by asking them to head to the library before visiting me when they had a question related to their computer. I asked them to get out a book in the desired subject.
They never bothered so I never bothered to help them.
> I by no means am not a CS student myself, nor am I super tech/prog savvy. I operate under the principle of "as long as you know how to read and understand, you have a chance at surviving." > > if I offload every aspect of my life to AI then I might as well use a wheelchair to get around even though I can full sprint.
AI has massive problems and pure AI code doesn’t pass cyber certs or insurability thresholds. I’ve used AI to support or find other connections for some sales work but it typically needs to ingest proprietary data and you need to write detailed prompts that end up being like requirements documents.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,430,069
@1,429,762 (C)
I solved that problem through damaging some components (two different people) and 'needing' to buy the replacements myself to preserve the friendships. Now I answer 'no, no I don't fix computers or cars, sorry.'