Alright you’re being intentionally ignorant, you can just say you don’t want to use it yourself that’s fine

Yeah, all my buddies use AI heavily on the job. You can very quickly create draft plans and models. I just looked through the schematics for a wind farm, all the underground work that’s needed, foundations, etc. All generated with AI

The tradesmen say, “is this what you want” and you say “yep”. Everyone is on the same page

Takes about thirty seconds

Why model in CAD? Who is paying for that? Are your carpenters and plasterers able to make anything in CAD? Such an effort could blow the cost of the job out 10x

If you wanted it modelled in CAD, you’d do the initial pass and most of the work with AI too

You upload a photo to the agent of your choice, e.g. openai, grok, Gemini

It modifies the image according to your instructions. E.g. “show this wall patched, with a black tile splashback using red grout, and the rest of the wall painted a glossy maroon”

The tradesmen and the customer can agree on what the work is supposed to be before it’s done, preventing misunderstandings.

Why is that funny? It did a great job. A big problem in the industry is tradesmen forget to invoice for jobs, and when they do invoice their invoices are not well itemised and the works are not well described. After all, they are tradies not accountants.

All the pieces of work had great descriptions of the work performed, it was well itemised and was provided same-day - not weeks later

My wife first heard about LLMs this year

She’s an engineer

What

she doesn’t know anyone who has used one

How would she know if she’s only just found out herself?

These things are heavily used in engineering

In addition, the tradesmen who have done work on our place lately have all been using AI. One took photos during quotation and used AI to show what it’ll look like when they are done. One used it for invoicing. One used it to find the right parts. I’d argue your bubble in the world is an exception rather than the rule

Is that you Tarantino

That’s a good one

Wow. Source?

That response doesn’t sound very anarchist of you

If it works it works

Where are all the details? Shocking journalism

Every other documentary about anything*

Classic playbook, you’ll see it used everywhere if you look closely.

Need to decrease public support of someone? Push a fake story out that they abuse kids or had child abuse material.

Yeah sure, I agree there’s no platform the movement as a whole can coordinate on

No off the shelf forum software has ever been proven at that scale. There’s far more at play than just “storage and bandwidth”. At that scale every operation has to be carefully designed. A table or index scan on any remotely common function in this setting would cripple the entire DB server with even one row per user in the table.

With 70m monthly active users, we’re in stack overflow and reddit 2012 territory. Nothing off the shelf, build your system yourself, nothing ready to migrate to at present. Even just the reads become a challenge, you’d need a CDN, load balancing, all the modern bells and whistles.

An off the shelf forum would be fine if it was just a few tens of thousands of users.

The biggest phpbb forum ever, for example, was Gaia online which was a heavily customised and rewritten phpbb that capped out at 90000 concurrently online users and 26 million registered users in total.

These protests are the largest in human history and just comprehending the scale is a struggle for most, normal systems just do not cut it.

Of course they won’t be using it at the same time. Maybe once a month even. But even then Lemmy+mastodon combined only have one million accounts active per month, we’re talking 70x the fediverse as a conservative estimate

There’s forums and then there’s forums catering to 70 million people

Please inform me which forum software scales to such a load? These are hand wavy suggestions that ignore the reality of the problem

You’re suggesting custom infrastructure, which doesn’t exist today, that they’d have to build out themselves. It’s okay to just say there is no ready or feasible alternative

How is it a ridiculous hypothetical? The proposal made was that these people now need a platform to move to, if they’re not going to use big tech, where do they go? Building a whole new architecture and platform is a bit out of scope. If your answer is that there is no other platform, then just say that.