phil on Nostr: I miss ICQ but that is probably just because it reminds me of a simpler time on the ...

I miss ICQ but that is probably just because it reminds me of a simpler time on the Internet!

While I’ve generally been pretty quick to embrace new technologies all through my life, I’ve been struggling to be excited about AI. I think there are some interesting applications but I personally haven’t found anything life changing.

I’ve tried to use it to help with some tasks for work with very mixed results. I needed to build a BOM for some new Cisco routers that we needed to order recently so and I thought I would test it out for that application. At first it looked like it had done well until I started double checking against the ordering guide and found that the SKUs it gave me didn’t actually exist and the routers were end of life anyway. It wasted my time rather than being helpful.