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    23 hours ago

    So the image is not used. It’s done for fun? I suppose that’s fine if they’re just showing it to you for vibes but I don’t see how that would be different from me asking a tiler to do my shower tile-work, telling them what I would like, and them showing me a meme on reddit. Cool I guess? Please return to the tiling task?

    Honestly I would prefer they just send over a sample. Why get a pretend image of what it will look like when I could just see a tile for free?

    And why would I use AI for the CAD work? I know how to use CAD. I suppose if I was in a situation where someone had a gun to my head and said that I had to render a sink fixture in under 45 seconds I might be motivated to speed up that process but I can’t think of a time in my life where I faced bodily harm if I did not complete a creative task quickly.

    EDIT: Nevermind, I can think of a few times I have faced bodily harm based on the speed I could complete arbitrary creative tasks.

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      As someone who works in the trades, this is 100% for the vibes. Flash a pic to the customer, who cares if it’s really accurate or not? Certainly don’t need CAD accuracy. The client won’t recognize if something is seriously wrong, they just care about getting the colors and other subjective finish details right. And they won’t really remember what the picture looked like by the time it’s done. Great application of AI… I guess

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        Sounds about right.

        My folks are currently working on a expansion to their deck that would add an open lower wooden “terrace” surrounding the primary one. They showed me this by sending me a bunch of pictures, AI generated, of what it will look like. The problem is the pictures are fundamentally not of their deck.

        See, their house sits on the bottom of a rather large hill and the deck is actually against the primary driveway to get into the home (the front door is basically unused). The deck is actually at a lower elevation to a major portion of the driveway, something not shown in the “reference” images. In order to create this step-down deck expansion they would basically have to carve out roughly a third of their or otherwise a major portion of the expansion would be functionally underground.

        They have purchased the wood and cement for the extension and I haven’t the heart to tell them its fucked.

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      23 hours ago

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

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        22 hours ago

        Dog I’m dying for someone to give me a use case. Really I am.

        I work in a field that kind of straddles the line between tech and industrial systems. On the tech side of the house people eat this shit up because it can code. On the industrial side its crickets.

        I’ll be honest, I think there’s a point of diminishing returns on convenience. Agent swarms can do what for me? Book an airline? Answer an email? The jump from sending letters to writing emails was massive. The jump from sending emails to asking a robot to send an email is miniscule. I have very few problems that can be solved with a computer and, honestly, I think that may be the case for a lot of people.

        Unless these things can put out assassinations there utility to me is limited to “searches for things good”.