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I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

by nickwritesit on 12/10/24, 4:20 PM with 55 comments

  • by itishappy on 12/10/24, 5:48 PM

    Once every 36 seconds? Even for simple transcription, that seems insane. This reads like the hustle culture memes...

        2:00am wake up
    2:05am cold shower
    2:15am breakfast: almonds, breast milk bought off facebook, 50mg adderal
    2:30am begin transcribing thoughts into the machine

  • by uludag on 12/10/24, 6:01 PM

    > employing AI roughly 50-100 times per hour

    > Within the last 24 months it’s clear that AI has become an essential coworker

    I'm curious why the personification of these tools? Like, with the same logic we could call our dishwashers and washing machines employees and co-workers.

    My guess is it is some form of hype-speak to raise the level of perceived importance of the technology for financial gain.

  • by thefz on 12/10/24, 6:28 PM

    > In fact, I find myself growing reliant on the AI to the extent that I no longer remember some of the R syntax, A sign of working at a higher level of abstraction : one of the promises of AI.

    Polar opposite of what I want to happen to me.

    There's joy in knowing one's tools.

  • by recursive on 12/10/24, 5:14 PM

    I don't understand what he's using it for. I'm using it maybe a few times on a busy day, and half of those fail to achieve anything useful.

  • by dumbmrblah on 12/10/24, 6:29 PM

    Hustle culture nonsense aside, I find using whisper (AI) transcription instead of typing to be super efficient.

    My workflow involves setting up a whisper server, downloading the Whispering(1) app on my computer, and binding it to a shortcut on my keyboard and mouse. Whenever I want to write something down, I just hit the shortcut, dictate and it transcribes instantly. With a Nvidia GPU (1070 in my case), transcription is nearly instantaneous. Although I haven’t set it up on my MacBook yet, I suspect it will be just as fast with Apple Silicon

    (1) https://github.com/braden-w/whispering/

    You can also use an API like grok, but I'm generally wary of such services.

    I'm a bit of an introvert, so I found talking out loud to be awkward at first. But now I can't go back to regular typing, given the efficiency gains.

  • by codemac on 12/10/24, 6:12 PM

    Learning to leverage AI as it exists today takes effort, but is usually worth it.

    However, ignoring the effort undercuts the distance these products have to go. Speech is great because there is just a single interface to integrate with. Obviously I'm biased to my employer's speech product, but I'm sure there are many.

    Biggest thing for me was when I saw that the lem editor[0] posted on hacker news[1] was a small editor, which has 3 top level features: common lisp API, LSP support, and copilot support.

    I've installed gptel[2] in emacs, and hacking up a few tools that really make it shine. Up next is figuring out voice + AI + emacs :)

    [0]: https://lem-project.github.io/

    [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357409

    [2]: https://github.com/karthink/gptel

  • by mtsolitary on 12/10/24, 5:42 PM

    Is this really interesting to anyone? Asking seriously

  • by keiferski on 12/10/24, 5:46 PM

    I'm probably at 20 times a day, at least for random trivia. What would be great (and maybe it already exists) is a daily email report, formatted for Anki, that helps me remember the things I've asked ChatGPT.

  • by elAhmo on 12/10/24, 8:37 PM

    > Publishing data-driven blog post analysis is a key part from formatting the data to analyzing it using R and then publishing charts. All of this is now predominantly handled with prompts to an AI.

    > I can generate several hundred lines of code in 5-10 minutes. With the newer models, I expect this to collapse to 1-2 minutes.

    It seems main usage is to make plots with R... Which is funny as the bar chart on the page can be done in Excel/Numbers/Sheets by entering a few numbers and headers.

  • by DuctTapeAI on 12/10/24, 5:31 PM

    "I tracked my Sunday work day" - that's all I needed to skip this one lol.

  • by gatinsama on 12/10/24, 5:32 PM

    You have no idea how many times you use it. Maps? Recommendation systems (the algo)? Other optimizations? BTW, to the best of my knowledge, dictation still has a high error rate.

  • by Artgor on 12/10/24, 5:20 PM

    Why is a usual STT (speech-to-text) called AI?. (fixed typo)

  • by nunez on 12/11/24, 4:46 AM

    > I can generate several hundred lines of code in 5-10 minutes. With the newer models, I expect this to collapse to 1-2 minutes.

    Is this supposed to be a good thing?

  • by e-clinton on 12/11/24, 12:53 AM

    I prob use it 100 times per hour in Cursor AI... if not more.

  • by EGreg on 12/10/24, 5:19 PM

    Psht, my AI uses AI 1 million times an hour. Slacker!

  • by jgalt212 on 12/10/24, 6:10 PM

    The lion's share of people I mute on Twitter are VCs.

  • by bookofjoe on 12/10/24, 5:47 PM

    Perplexity has replaced Google Search for me in recent days. Not even comparable.

  • by orthecreedence on 12/10/24, 6:15 PM

    "I let my brain atrophy at an accellerated rate."