Autonomus Intelligence
ai, techtitle: Autonomus Intelligence created_at: 2025-11-09T14:52:16.823Z updated_at: 2025-11-09T14:52:16.823Z tldr: A pleasant smelling SHIT! is_published: 1 star: true category: ai, tech share_type: add
I don’t want to call this “Artificial intelligence,” we are way past that already. We are in the phase of autonomy, we are letting the THING have its own choices or paths to get us to our objective. Right now may be in a text / AV (poompt), but we do-not have control over what it's doing. That’s my first problem. Every time i ask it to convert my photo to be wearing a saree (yes, did that. I have 3 sisters, also I know how to drape one!), it gave me a different result - not better but different. Now imagine this with a user and AI being the customer support, for the same queries, if the user is seeing 10 suggestions to fix their work - that is confusing... in the context of the user, the mental flow is broken. User wants to talk to a real person now... If adapting an AI flow is making the time to solution longer, are we even moving in the right direction, pushing AI on everything?
Lost joy
I remember when I could solve a complex math problem in my class and shout out the answer aloud before anyone could even understand the problem (Had a great math teacher ❤️). Started using AI at work and lost this joy... At least used to copy-paste from the web (used to read a little, rest is on god’s grace we won’t get hacked :D), had some mental model while in the process to approch the problem at hand if it appeared the second time — LOST. Now, for the same thing, I just ask AI. It's almost like we started using auto complete, and the production broke down; you are unable to do anything on the server. In our county, if there is a blackout, the government office would be a no-work day. I guess this is going to be the case in the future. If AI goes down, it's no-work-done.
You really need to tell it.
Like a dumb machine, we need to tell it. The finer the print, the more predictable it gets. At this point, I could have fixed the whole thing by myself. On an approach, if I ask it to fix what the customer said, given the context of the code, it doesn’t understand. Fine-tuning it, when I ask what the code is doing, it gives 10 possibilities. Further narrowing it down, when i ask this code is doing x but i need it to do Y, it does it. At this point, its a day to fix this ticket, if i had eliminated the back and forth from the AI i could have gone home for half a day. For a person who has no contextual fines of what is happening at the code or the behaviour, this might even take a bit long, at some point, if the hallucination happens and the user has lost confidence, nor does he know where to go - not complaining, but have seen folks punching their computers extra hard.
For the stuff you know or what the end goal is, AI as a peer is way easier - you have mostly finetuned things in the TODO list, and you just want to get it done. This commit and Custom update notifications for Ghostty[1][2] from @mitchellh is a solid example of - to the point - promt.
No-driver taxi
In the old days, you had to talk to people, you wouldn’t believe - run home and try it yourself. Later, you saw something on the internet, You wouldn’t believe - copy-paste run it on your machine, and it worked. Now you talk to the driver to help you do something, and with no emotions, a vomit of text appears without reading it (WhoTF reads this?) you hit run, and it works fairly partially. This era of AI has created these drivers, which you stressfully need to tell what to do, like teaching a baby calculus. Explaining the joke - if you ask it to replicate all the characters in a calculus theorem, and you see it once you have a theorem. But neither the person who wrote it knows what it is nor the one who asked it to make it.
We are heading into a fact-driven model instead of an emotion-driven model. If you ask for a pleasant-smelling SHIT, that's what you shall have. LOL! The era of picking something just because it made us feel nice has ended! As the era continues, the tools are as good as the one who uses them. Creativity is still the currency.
After starting to use AI, I have doubled down on real-world skills (cooking, DIY, farming ...) at least to feel some joy in fixing up a messed-up meal.
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