I use it as an assistant. Finds me news/info, directions, locations, makes book suggestions, helps me remember things accurately, we even discuss philosophy or quantum physics. It's kind of interesting the things it will suggest.
Artificial Intelligence: How are you using it in everyday life?
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Ha, I was only curious as to what you were hoping to accomplish.
Kinda surprised whatever device this is could be paired successfully outside its own app (assuming it wasn’t a generic oximeter service device).
How may on here understand the fundamentals of AI? AI is a probability entity. Nothing more. I use it extensively to code. And while it's great at understanding the definition of things, it's horrible at logic ... at this point. And, the more you delve into complexity, the more you can see it starts to 'guess'. And the more it guesses, the more random the results: often backtracking and damaging other parts of the code. So, at this point, I'm not worried about any good coder being replaced. That is, of course, if their managers have an ounce of coding understanding. Sadly, however, management never fully understands what that tier of work contributes. So, management stupidity reigns.
I use it basically to make mundane things faster. Can upload a report and have it look for things.
I've had it run some calculations and designs but it often confuses units or approximates vs. referencing an actual code to be more precise (odd right?). Sometimes I think it just searches and grabs the first thing it finds and passes it back to me.
I've had it run some calculations and designs but it often confuses units or approximates vs. referencing an actual code to be more precise (odd right?). Sometimes I think it just searches and grabs the first thing it finds and passes it back to me.
It can help you make excel sheets full of complex formulas really well. You still need a more than basic understanding of excel, but it starts with the end in mind more than I do. There is far less back tracking and revising.
Oh, I don't believe it was designed to be able to. But reverse engineering it wasn't terrible. I did get the file transfer stuff working now as well, so no app needed for anything (that I know of).
Yeah, I guess that is the surprise. It has been awhile, but I think it is pretty simple to use an encrypted challenge (and payloads for proprietary protocol) to make that difficult.
I have a good friend who worked his way up to a VP position at one of the big tech companies. I asked him for his thoughts on this subject and his response was this ...
Say a big tech company has 50,000 software developers today. Maybe in 5-10 years they'll have 10,000. There will be many rounds of layoffs to get there obviously. In the early rounds of layoffs, they might ask the developers how they are using AI in their job daily. If the answer is not much, they are the first ones let go. Subsequent rounds of layoffs will trim the developers with novice AI skills, then the developers with intermediate AI skills, until all that's left are the developers that have mastered using AI to write code quickly. Those developers will be extremely valuable and will be paid accordingly.
I had a pretty unreal experience with codex the other day. I was writing some embedded software in C for an NXP microcontroller. NXP provides an SDK with source code for using all of the features of the CPU. I pointed codex to the NXP SDK files and asked it to create an example app that uses the SDK to write a flash programming app that is capable of programming all of the CPU's flash, including the area of flash the flash programming app would normally be running from. This involves having the app copy itself into RAM then execute from RAM to carry out the flash programming.
Even for someone that has done this for 30 years, that code was tricky. Would have taken me quite a while to dig through manuals to figure out exactly how to do this for this particular CPU. Codex had the app **nearly** working within an hour, but the app still wouldn't quite work. Codex was having a tough time figuring out the problem by just analyzing the SDK files, so it started inserting printf calls into the code then prompting me to run the code and show it the debug output. We iterated together like this about 5 times, then codex tells me it found and fixed 4 very subtle defects in NXP's public SDK files! I reviewed its changes and sure enough, they were real bugs that I reported to NXP.
I was just in awe of this interaction with codex. It was like having an extremely skilled programmer sitting right next to me doing the old, obsolete pair programming together (only I didn't have to smell it's coffee breath or listen to it jabber on about something personal while I was trying to concentrate on writing code.)
Even for someone that has done this for 30 years, that code was tricky. Would have taken me quite a while to dig through manuals to figure out exactly how to do this for this particular CPU. Codex had the app **nearly** working within an hour, but the app still wouldn't quite work. Codex was having a tough time figuring out the problem by just analyzing the SDK files, so it started inserting printf calls into the code then prompting me to run the code and show it the debug output. We iterated together like this about 5 times, then codex tells me it found and fixed 4 very subtle defects in NXP's public SDK files! I reviewed its changes and sure enough, they were real bugs that I reported to NXP.
I was just in awe of this interaction with codex. It was like having an extremely skilled programmer sitting right next to me doing the old, obsolete pair programming together (only I didn't have to smell it's coffee breath or listen to it jabber on about something personal while I was trying to concentrate on writing code.)
Yeah, Codex is getting really good. For a net new project it's great, for taking requirements and updating large projects it's ok. For reviewing code, given a decent prompt it's really good. We had a pretty substantial defect go out back in November, didn't get reported until Feb. Ran the change through AI review and it spit out the exact issue. That was a fun conversation with leadership.
I’m not a coder but I used Claude code to wire up a financial app to replace quicken Simplifi that costs me $70 a year. It covers everything I used in quicken plus a few things I tracked in spreadsheets. It’s taken about 2 weeks of periodically updating as I want to check my balances etc. Leveraging Plaid behind the scenes like Quicken does.
I have read a few articles on how to write prompts. Im going to add Prompt Engineer to my resume.
I use AI for Python scripting to develop tools for use in ArcGIS. Works great. I have no idea how to code.
I have the ChatGPT and Claude apps. I’ve used it for:
- Reading suggestions: I’ve fed my entire library into ChatGPT and asked for suggestions. It analyzed the books I fed it and it categorized what those titles suggest about my reading preferences, then gives new titles based on those preferences.
- Home workout routines: Provided what I have in my home gym and my goals, how much time I want to spend, how many days a week, what limitations I might have (I.e. arthritic shoulder). Spits out a split in seconds
- In tandem with the second bullet, it will provide grocery lists and recipes and will keep things within a specified budget
- I’ve asked it to help with material I’m studying if I’m struggling to grasp certain concepts
Sometimes I’ll pit GPT and Claude against each other to see where they agree or disagree.
- Reading suggestions: I’ve fed my entire library into ChatGPT and asked for suggestions. It analyzed the books I fed it and it categorized what those titles suggest about my reading preferences, then gives new titles based on those preferences.
- Home workout routines: Provided what I have in my home gym and my goals, how much time I want to spend, how many days a week, what limitations I might have (I.e. arthritic shoulder). Spits out a split in seconds
- In tandem with the second bullet, it will provide grocery lists and recipes and will keep things within a specified budget
- I’ve asked it to help with material I’m studying if I’m struggling to grasp certain concepts
Sometimes I’ll pit GPT and Claude against each other to see where they agree or disagree.
I vibe-coded my first app the other day. It's mind-blowing to me that I can do that now when manual coding still seems like voodoo magic to me.
Used copilot yesterday to batch redline a bunch of spec sheets I needed to add for a work project. Probably a faster way to to do it, but i fed it one example of each of the templates I needed (5 or so) then gave the rest in bulk. only negative i saw was copilot limited upload to 20 files each time.
yep, my corpo is also pushing copilot but its gatekeeping usage. USE IT BUT NOT TOO MUCH!
