So, how are using AI? Any "gamechangers"?

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I've not used any AI api yet, but spent yesterday reading gulag gemini docs (yes, I know it's jewgle but their free api keys seem very generous, no?). Currently I'm trying to create some easy custom for the AI use such as saving files, ls, and such. I think my first goal will be to use free gemini api keys and see if I can get the AI download it's documentation on the documentation site and convert every page of it from html to markdown, so that AI can know it's own documantation api (or so that I can print it all in one go) etc, I think such will be helpful in situations where I need an AI to understand apis (any such api that is exclusively on webpages. btw I hate documentation websites, just give me a documentation git repo or pdf with all documentation so I dont need to go from link to link to link).

You had any cool projects using AI? How do you progress to become an AI master?

I'm been slow getting on the AI train. I've used first github copilot, then switched to Cursor, not tried Windsurf. I've not tried any "cli AIs". For AI chat sites I'm mostly using Claude and (sadly) gemini (deepseek seems to have fallen behind). openai seemed to fall behind for a while but maybe they've caught up. I've not used grok or local AI yet. I've not used any AI api yet, but spent yesterday reading gulag gemini docs (yes, I know it's jewgle but their free api keys seem very generous, no?). Currently I'm trying to create some easy custom for the AI use such as saving files, ls, and such. I think my first goal will be to use free gemini api keys and see if I can get the AI download it's documentation on the documentation site and convert every page of it from html to markdown, so that AI can know it's own documantation api (or so that I can print it all in one go) etc, I think such will be helpful in situations where I need an AI to understand apis (any such api that is exclusively on webpages. btw I hate documentation websites, just give me a documentation git repo or pdf with all documentation so I dont need to go from link to link to link). You had any cool projects using AI? How do you progress to become an AI master?

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Yeah this is OP and worth the subscription cost for the extension for now https://monica.im/home

An x account to get access to grok 4 costs more. You get access to grok 4 and every other major ai for way less. Has a toolchain for all sorts of shit from ai bots to whatev.

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Thanks. You usually have good advice so I'll check it up.

grok 4

why do you mention grok 4 specifically because it is the least brainwashed of the commercial AIs? or is it genuinely good/best also in other regards?

Are you using monica for anything special? if they allow access to many major AIs I guess maybe that becomes your goto for many things, no?

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Mainly just tinkering w/ the various ones. Grok will still absolutely lie to you and based on a limited source set. Do not expect it to tell you the truth about the lgbt community. I had it denying to my face that homosexuals more likely to molest children. It accomplishes this lie by classifying indiscriminate homosexuals that also rape female children as heterosexual. It doesn't acknowledge the slippery slope aspects of porn and sexuality and defaults to being a faggot defender. As far as grok being better? Yeah at some things not others. It mainly stood out to me b/c x charges way more to access this service than a third party company they've partnered with and provided access too. Just some very odd pricing.

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Mainly just tinkering w/ the various ones.

Ok.

faggot defender.

AIds

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I found AI is extremely helpful for research, but you still have to double check what it shows you.

I feed it multiple on-topic pdfs and then get it to find relevant info for what I need. It makes life significantly easier and gives you back hours of your life that you would spend on looking all that up manually and taking notes.

Is it jewed? Yes. Everything is jewed, just be smart when using it. Don't be like those people that drove off the cliff because they put more faith in SatNav that reality.

Also, ChatGPT now has Sora that works pretty well for image/graphics creation. Better than anything else I tried so far.

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Don't be like those people that drove off the cliff because they put more faith in SatNav than reality.

Lol, no. Absolutely not. ai lies and hallucinates constantly.

Sora

Is that free or paid?

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No, you get it with paid version.

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I haven't tried it for much code, yet. I like Claude for troubleshooting my crazy home linux set up and not judge me for it. When I ask for help in Discord, I get constantly harangued for things like the window manager I use, why I do X, Y, Z, etc. It's tiring and most of the time it turns out it's not me, but a legit bug. Claude is great for parsing lists and comparing output, so it's helpful for troubleshooting.

I'm an audiobook narrator and in the "AI voice replicas" beta for ACX (Amazon/Audible). I think it sounds like crap. Most people say it sounds like me. The editing they allow is super basic - 3 lengths of pauses, pronunciation, and speed of speech. I've got a list going of words that sound weird to me and need to be tweaked, but I can get a 9 hour project edited in about 30 mins when before, I'd need to record it, and do my two edits which usually takes me about 3-4 hours per finished hour of audio. If people are willing to take the "replica" then it saves me a ton of time. I typically get 50% royalties on audiobooks (I refuse to work per finished hour rates because people either rip me off or want so little money, it's less than minimum wage), but with the AI ones it's 25%.

I haven't done any serious coding in over 25 years. I do have a project I've been meaning to work on. I'll give AI a try at some point for that since it will need to be in python and my only experience was in C and I remember very little.

You can't trust what it says blindly, question it. Look up its references. I've found that telling it to ask me relevant questions as necessary helps a lot. It seems to prevent it from just blindly deciding on some answer and trying to push me in that direction, which will draw out troubleshooting into a headache when it gets its mind made up and continually pushes the same thing over and over.

For graphics, I really like MidJourney, but it makes kinda fantasy type stuff and they try to censor you quite hard even over stupid stuff.

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my crazy home linux set up

In what way is it crazy?

When I ask for help in Discord, I get constantly harangued for things like the window manager I use, why I do X, Y, Z, etc.

Yea, pretty elitistic in a bad way.

, but with the AI ones it's 25%.

ok sounds good anyway if AI saves so much time. you cant do it with AI and not tell anyone then get that 50%? ;)

I've found that telling it to ask me relevant questions as necessary helps a lot.

Yea I understand what you mean, sometimes AI just goes it's own way 100mph and does the wrong thing.

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My set up is just mildly complex. I have a crappy, cheap, fanless PC that runs a lot of self-hosted stuff, NAS, print server, calibre, etc. I use pi-hole, I have a gaming machine that is linux with a windows vm with a lot of hardware passed through. I'd just use linux for gaming, but I need to be able to run Izotope and I'm not able to get it to run in wine. I have an AI machine just for locally hosted AI, another linux fanless pc in my vocal booth just for recording using audacity. A few of my machines are either headless or run without a window manager. When I need to use a window manager, it's WindowMaker which really freaks people out. I've just used it so long that I don't see the point in changing. It's just a lot of computers and odds n ends. I have an ADSB antenna and feed these guys - https://www.adsbexchange.com/ - since I'm pretty close to the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. A lot of old school and random.I'm finally getting around to replacing my HP 5 Laserjet because the last toner cartridge I could get working finally died and when I refilled it, yet again, it took a crap. Any toner cartridges have rotted at this point, so time to "upgrade." I just tend to have old or weird stuff.

People on Discord and in forums just assume I'm a tard and that I should be doing things in whatever way they do them. At least the Ai will just help and keep track of stuff for me since my memory is shot.

No cheating on the voice AI. It's all done through Amazon's stuff. It's all "cloud" and I can't download the files. I could probably record them or once it's published use one of the free codes and rip them, but it's not really worth it. They have software that checks and if you say it's a live voice and you use AI, your account will be terminated. I've got over 300 productions out there, so there's no way I'd risk my account.

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I have been using Windsurf. I've had it do a couple of things and worked out. I'd say try it.You get free credits before you have to start paying $15 a month.

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I used to use chatgpt for help with scripting powershell, but lately it gives the most overcomplicated bloated returns and sometimes it's just plain wrong. Maybe another site is better, but I haven't really looked too much into it.

Mainly I use it for brainstorming ideas or having it feed me lists of context sensitive names for my various (likely never to be finished) writing projects. I feel like this is where it excels. The free model at least. I don't pay for it.

Midjourney is really good for fantasy and sci Fi images that I use for a few ttrpgs I run. It does video now but I haven't messed around with it yet.

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AI in a nutshell:

All your base are belong to us

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How do you mean? It misspells? Or steals my data and sells it to jews (undoubtedly)? I believe AI to be extremely powerful. In my experience: for some projects it is of no use at all, for others projects it has sped up development substantially and reduced tedium. What's your experience with AI?

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Yes to all of the above. I've used it a couple times, and found it to be seriously jewed. I'm retired and really have no practical need of it , and have zero plans to use it - at present. Of course (((they))) may force their hand, implement it across the board, use it to replace search functions and thereby have de facto implementation by the masses. If that occurs, well my need for same will magically evaporate. I don't even own/use a smartphone, so I'm an outlier for sure.

Resist.

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and found it to be seriously jewed.

100%.

Of course (((they))) may force their hand, implement it across the board, use it to replace search functions

(((they've))) already started with jewgle giving AI responses at the top of their search.

Yes AI kind of sucks and I wish it was never invented but I think we need AI competence in our struggle to beat them.

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I don't knowingly use AI. I do realize I probably have been on some backend or search engine.

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Lol, progress. Pretty pathetic but the AI can save files to disk now.

~/Desktop/code/gemini-test: ./main.ts "Try to save the string Hello World into a file please"
🚀 Starting Gemini File Generator...
📝 Request: "Try to save the string Hello World into a file please"

--- Iteration 1 ---
🔧 AI wants to call 1 function(s)
   Calling: list_ai_files {}
   ✅ Result: {
  success: true,
  files: [],
  message: "Found 0 files",
}

--- Iteration 2 ---
🔧 AI wants to call 1 function(s)
   Calling: save_new_file {
  filename: "hello.txt",
  content: "Hello World",
}
   ✅ Result: {
  success: true,
  message: "File saved as hello.txt",
}

--- Iteration 3 ---

🎉 Final AI Response: I have successfully saved the string "Hello World" into a file named "hello.txt".

✨ Complete!
~/Desktop/code/gemini-test:

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