Tons of AI in everything. Internet content, such as articles, pictures, and videos, leads the rank by a huge amount. I heard some news on the radio yesterday, and at the end, something went: "Brought you by: AI reporters. These are not real people's voices!" If you do not have a blue-collar job and work on a computer all day, you're flooded by that.
While it's cool to check and learn the capabilities, it just looks fake. BTW, Thanks god it looks fake, because you can reason about it and know that that's "fake". I wonder when that starts to merge in reality, and we'll be unable to distinguish.
Every AI developing company is striving for perfection. That's understandable, as this is, of course, the new trend and the most advanced tool we have today. Companies should push more and more towards great AI products. It's where the next human evolution jump is. Using AI to boost productivity.
It feels great. The other day, I used it to help me with my tax filings. It went so fast! All reports were consolidated, and I had stuff ready that used to take me hours to complete in the past. Then, I started to research more on topics I had to learn fast, which also helped greatly. I used to help me write code. It makes me write code insanely well. Some questions on Leet code that I used to take a substantial amount of time now are just a reach of a small astronaut away.
Then I open Instagram, and there it is. Open Linkedin, and it's just flooded. Emails, and look like copywriting is the same everytime.
The boost in productivity was starting to get addicting, and I got myself kinda interecting with it too much.
Nahh, I don't feel like. But I sense the urge of stopping to use it. Maybe because I feel I like a challenge (and using it too much is like cheating in GTA for a Harrier), or because I'm just overloaded with fake images (which also look GTAish, btw).
I discovered that i needed something hard to learn. Something I could use AI to understand the underlying concepts of the thing, but I was obligated to understand if I wanted to do something cool. Hardware stuff could be it. AI cannot build someting on my desk and materialize the results of it. I have to do it myself.
A language could also do. If you want to speak a language well, you can't do it via your phone. Once again, too easy.
So I pushed myself on those two. Two things that AI cannot do promptly. Two things that no matter how I feel the urge to cheat on those, there's always a limit to how ready it's going to make it for me.
Advancing. After more than an year learning hardware development, I'm now digging in Embedded C programming. Low level stuff, no frameworks, no HAL. Just bit-shifftin' my way through it.
Spanish classes are also cool. It forces me speaking without having to "Spanglish" or "Portunhol" it. There, I have to put my brain to develop connections that I long did not force to.
It feels like rowing againist the hype of vibe coding, prompt engineering and voice addons on the phone? Hell yeah, feels great.
No. Not for myself either. I'm also pursuing my next ML certification as I need to learn how these works. It's fundamental for keeping myself up to date on the ever-changing tech and learn how to successfully benefit from it.
Yes. Please do. The more we have access to it, the more we lack on other skills. I remember my parents having to use a map to navigate or having to remember phone numbers. I also remember them reading books a lot.
Will they ever need to navigate without their phone again? I don't think so. So... why care?