AI on the day to day?
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- nylon
Just wondering what AI means you guys are using to make your lives easier?
I'm not talking about purple fluffy butterflies in MidJorney and Firefly - am talking more about process stuff that essentially takes 1 hour tasks down to 60 seconds.
One example being www.fyxer.ai - apparently it writes emails for you super fast etc but I just cant wrap my head around how it works.
Notion AI apparently gives you 8 assistants to help you.
You get the idea...
Are you guys actually seeing any professional value in certain apps and platforms or are we just all super old and think its a bag o shite?
Cheers
- canoe0
Certainly...
- Helps with issues that I have with apps
- Helps do research for strategy
- Configures budget sheets with functions
- Takes personal research from 10-15 minutes of googling down to one minute
- Helped me troubleshoot Looker Studio when I was learning
- It makes me smarter and dumber at the same time
- NBQ000
Apart from visual stuff it's mostly info research / troubleshooting with:
- Perplexity
- Gemini
- ChatGPT
- ShenanigansTV1
- Coding
- Troubleshooting
- Graphics
- Stock imagesOne of the standout instances for me was using FontForge to fix character problems in the opensource font Metropolis. I've never used FontForge and GPT was able to walk me through the interface to accomplish all the fixes.
- utopian0
- Ideation
- Vibe coding apps
- Research
- Writing proposals
- Sales & marketing
- DaveO0
Storyboarding – completely eliminates the need to hire an artist and can generate dangerously close to the real thing.
On a personal level i am using chat to prep for my US citizenship test and it is excellent.
- US citizenship? I'm interested how long and difficult that must be. And why you wanted to. (Trying not to be cynical)CyBrainX
- Been a resident for 15 years, greencard for 10, kids are dual British and USA, makes sense to have access to this economy for the rest of my life!DaveO
- Very cool. Best of luck. (to the rest of us in the US too)CyBrainX
- CyBrainX1
I applied for a job with one of the AI biggies last night. They encouraged using their product for the cover letter and one or two other sections. I would never have written that well on my own if I had years to do it.
- It also was paying more money than any job posting I ever saw. I know I'll never get it but it was an interesting experience.CyBrainX
- Nairn0
I'm seeing an uptick in email enquieires that are clearly drafted by LLMs and ... No. Just fucking no. To the bottom of the pile you go.
I honestly despair at the directions humanity's taking.
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(I'm not against LLMs per se, but AS A COMPONENT. AS A TOOL. AS A GUIDE. NOT AS A FUCKING ENDPOINT/PRODUCT).
- "If you'd used an LLM it might've picked up one of your many spelling mistakes, Nairn. 'enquieires'? Really? You pleb".Nairn
- capn_ron1
One of clients is having me use AI to create ghost mannequin and AI model images for their apparel. Fashn.ai and PhotoRoom are lifesavers for that. Then ChatGPT is basically my idea sounding board to get clear on things.
I'm surprised how I'm using AI daily now (aside from stupid photoshop generative shit) and love having it part of my workflow now.
- yuekit0
This is kind of random but I was impressed by this AI voice generator and even tried using it to create podcasts to listen to: https://elevenlabs.io/
It's funny how actual worthwhile text to speech still barely exists...this is the first one I found that crosses the listenability threshold.
- palimpsest-1
All of the above.
And the one that keeps popping up is that LLMs are great for brainstorming.
The added value is less in the execution of small tasks (that's a given) but more in freeing you up to look at the bigger picture.
- nylon0
Been 3 months since I posted this... Wanted to share Ive been having luck with lovart.ai - preet cool for concepts and photoshop work that I wouldn't nec. be able to do...
Anyone using Claude?
Truthfully Im all over the fucking place these days and hoping that I can use AI to be my assistant as sorts...
Anyone having more luck than they were 3 months ago?
- using Claude to prompt Cline in VScode, to help structure/clean up an Obsidian Vault, also created a webUI to search vault for relevant info.keewee
- I use Claude all the time. I've been trying to learn Rive lately and when I get tripped up, I paste a screen shot, ask what's wrong and I get decent answers.CyBrainX
- I wish Claude would admit it doesn't know more often but it's still a lot of help.CyBrainX
- Nairn4
I got the most AI job enquiry yet on Friday - it was almost beyond parody, it was so mangled and ridiculous.
Potential Client kept chasing me over the weekend so I wrote her a blunt, but polite email this morning when I came back in and a hopefully instructive response about why I would not be taking such a job on.
The image assets she'd generated were basically impossible to create, especially using the processes I (or anyone who does what I do) am able to offer, and the language of the brief was just awful hyper-American corporatism. It was a farce.
Never mind the fact that she wanted what would have been anyway a very complicated costing 'by monday morning latest', having sent the thing at 4pm on a Friday evening. Red Flags All The Way Down.
I kept thinking about the effort chain, equating it to about a couple of inches worth of prompting, resulting in a couple of feet's worth of 'brief', necessitating a mile's worth of costing and effort at my end. Basically it was just kicking actual thouhg and effort down the road.
Not much looking forward to this becoming the new normal.
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Amusing thing was that her first email response to my immediate dismissal before explanation was clearly written by her (non-native ESL, and the email was perfectly fine), but she obviously distrusted herself so she sent the same as an AI-fluffed follow up a few minutes later and it was just... bilge.
- you can't really blame her when the ads show some idiot getting his presentation done by copilot, or some other numpty having his holiday planned by chatgpt.hans_glib
- the techbros continue to lie us about how great their fourth rate autoscrapers are, and the credulous lap it up.hans_glib
- it's like black and decker saying "our drill will build your house for you"hans_glib
- there may be sum underestimation in the effects AI will have in the near-mid term. https://www.citrinir…keewee
- Working a project request to data engineer a project that was clearly a long AI-response, straight pasted into a job ticket.cotton
- Unapologetic attempt to outsource thinking to AI from the head of operations, planning to build strategy on the output which is flawed from the prompt.cotton
- So no AI will take your job :))********
- The fact people just try is hilarious
Then please attack me when I call then idiots******** - Them*********