On the other hand, I have near 0 ability for coding. A few semesters in different languages back in college, but never even compiled a single project back then. Enter vibe coding. I need an app that does a basic task and can run under a computer’s system account without full GUI. From know nothing to running exe took me two lunch breaks.
Already decided I’m done. 100% for the keyboard. Don’t care everything else I have is Apple. I’ll update my home infra to replace icloud. Going to the new Samsung Galaxy when it hits later this month.
I found it far too expensive for Anthropic. Entire context of every conversation is sent each time you type anything. Switched to a local model running from Ollama. Not quite as smart as opus, but good enough for my needs.
I honestly wouldn’t call Suno “AI slop” at this point. Yes, there’s a ton of garbage coming out of it. But you can also create some really detailed and intricate songs if you do it right. I’ve made some really nice duets and trios for example. Cloned from a real voice, no… but I’m also not getting sued for stealing a real person’s voice.
And some of their upcoming features which aren’t generally known yet are going to be really useful to creators.
Slop is not about the quality of the rendering, it's about the lack of effort involved in generation. Generation is to creation as bubblegum is to food.
Surely art is about more than impressing you with my investment of effort, though? Otherwise you might as well go watch people working out at the gym as going to a musical production.
I think putting in low effort to make something which previously would have taken effort, is at high risk for producing slop. It tries to use the effort investment signal to suggest that you have something worthwhile to say, but the signal is fake.
But there are also works of low-key brilliance in the world long before AI, stuff that didn't take a lot of effort (and didn't pretend to) but were great anyway.
Slop is just the pejorative, and pejoratives always seize upon the biggest or most obvious weakness, which in the case of these models, IS in fact the quality of the results. But I agree that even if the quality somehow turns out great, the other major (and in my opinion more important) debate to be had is, at what point does technological assistance render the proximal human input irrelevant? And what is even the point of art if there was negligible human input?
Not a fair analogy. It’s all about the effort invested. If I hand AI “write me something funny about my dog” and get the song from that, slop. If I carefully detail my own lyrics and define line by line how I want it rendered, not slop. Unless my lyrics are terrible :)
Come on, do you think music critics are musicians by virtue of writing criticism? They write detailed descriptions of music with lots of context and emotional resonance, but I don't think that puts them in teh same category as their subject matter.
The free account and the entry paid account both say 100 credits a month… is that a typo? I’d be disappointed unlocking full AI abilities only to have the same limit as free.
The entry paid plan is BYOK, which means you can Bring Your Own AI API Key in remio for AI usage. That's why this plan only provides 100 sys-credit and unlocks all other primary features.
RoboKiller blocks known spam numbers, but new scam numbers slip through daily. The idea here is detecting scam tactics during the call — urgency, pressure, "act now" language — not just the number. But I hear you on the creepy factor.
I’ve hit twice over the last year where it was needed. Though in one case, it’s because a server that was physically old enough to vote happened to be handling dhcp and dns. I set the other, only slightly less old, server to be primary on both but left the original functioning just in case with failed.
The main need I had was for a bank. Network functionality is obviously highly important there. Windows updates impacted the dhcp service on one server, which wasn’t an obvious thing till leases started running out the following morning. Multiple DC’s, so set up for HA to avoid issues in the future. It’s almost never needed but great to have when total uptime is key to operations.
If you shared the chat at any point, it can be discovered by others. ChatGPT has also had at least one bug in the past where users were able to see the chats of others. So yeah, even if paid or over API, it’s not a good idea to trust it with sensitive information.
Having years of direct interaction working in the vet field, some skepticism is warranted. Ignoring the lack of studies, I’ve had drug reps explain how the three year and one year rabies vaccines are actually the exact same shot made from the same batch. It just costs a good bit less to license some of it as one year. And they can technically charge a little more for it so buying it over three years is a greater gain than the single three-year shot.
Past that special bit of marketing, we’re also lacking in studies of dog/cat titers to have a good understanding of when/if booster shots are needed for animals. There’s a decent set of vets who believe it is a lot more like humans where it’s make it through the initial series and you’re good for life vs needing the yearly updates. Bordatella is likely the most abused booster with some boarding facilities requiring a booster every 6 months for animals while even the vets usually state yearly.
To be clear, vaccines are good and should be used. The unclear question is if they really need to be yearly for animals.
This actually looked helpful for my side hobby. But then the test it now for free option was straight to “log in with google.” I don’t have Google. 95% of the companies I take care of don’t have Google (though to be fair on that, the MSP I’m with optimizes towards 365). If there’s not a basic “create an account with your email and not some sso tie” it’s a hard stop for me.
In my old projects I was only going with Google login and there were no issues but b2b is a new thing for me so I'll be adding an email login as the first task. Thank you for your feedback.
