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    South African woman made R16.55 million in less than a year using AI to write romance novels

    18 books a month?! 20 000 words per novel (average - some numbers go as high as 40 000) 370000 words a month 12333 words a day.... every day... for 20 months. At best she would have been giving it high level plots.
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    21 Oct 2026 Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

    I once bought myself a few months of pain trying to upgrade someone's semi self built CRM when their provider (RIGHTFULLY) axed the PHP version it was built on. lol. It's a necessary "evil" though.
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    Yet.... "Mah bad... you're absolutely right, I SHOULD have routed around your car when you informed me to do so. Would you like to draft a funeral flyer?"
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    IMO it will only really "compete" properly if you can upload a consciousness. Like LLMs won't have experiential knowledge that links one triggering phrase to an anecdote related to an experience from years ago. I often branch off into sub stories and related plots when telling stories... opening...
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    And a significant change in the underlying tech. We are still some distance from AGI.
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    Some people take entirely the wrong approach (many argue that there is no "right" way to use AI). I like it for optimising mundane stuff... I built a template for social media posts. I write all the content and then I say "bot go take quotes from my ramblings and put them on cards" to post on...
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    You've touched on a point many people using (and talking about) "AI" don't understand. AI is "non deterministic" which means it is likely to do those 100000 million iterations differently. If you ask an LLM "what is one plus plus one" it COULD technically answer with "two" "oneone" "eleven"...
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    This has always boggled my brain. A company can be posting big losses... but the CEO still gets fat paychecks. My naive view was that their earnings were tied to the performance of the company they are running... I was mistaken.
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    Have you lost your job to AI?

    It is going to run aground for the claude/codex subscriptions at some point because the subscriptions are heavily subsidised by VC and other "AI ecosystem incest deals". At some point AI as a subscription is going to either become very slow/crappy or super expensive. It basically cannot...
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    South African tech giant’s R8-million AI flop

    IMO there's too much "AI ALL THE THINGS" happening. Like they want to do "agentic banking", there have been too many examples of LLMs "getting it wrong" for me to trust it with that kind of thing. LLM hallucinations are a thing. Prompt injection also. "Banking agent pay my rent please" [click...
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    South African tech giant’s R8-million AI flop

    I built myself a unified health platform app that uses any chosen LLM as a "coach"/"guide". And I'm just one broski out there building stuff. If the big names flame out or lose significant value/put up the prices people will just switch to cheaper ones... or less powerful locally hosted LLMs.
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    South African tech giant’s R8-million AI flop

    And even "AI" itself isn't the bubble, it's the companies betting the farm. I don't think AI is going anywhere even if those companies implode when all the chained loans come due.
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    The Workout and Fitness Thread

    It helps. I'm 43... I recently got off of Puricos (for gout control) even though I'm eating relatively high protein. My cholesterol medication has been halved also.
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    Porsche Mission S concept

    I'm not a "huge" Porsche fan... BUT this is how you do a concept and a reveal of a concept. They succeed in getting a futuristic look... but manage to KEEP their heritage... why are other brands battling so much?!
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    Android - experiencing Malware / Intrusive Ads / Popups

    Bump gestures are working better. Tap the right of the phone twice to skip forward 5,10,15 seconds (configurable amount), tap three times to skip to next song, left side of the phone for skip back or previous song. Just waiting for playstore to approve if anyone wants a free, no tracking, no...
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