Caveman

Honestly, if they make it with upgradable RAM, M2 SSD and GPU you’re essentially buying 1 and getting gen 2 and 3 for 50% off.

AI is pretty bad most things you do that are actually valuable so your critique definitely holds. It’s bad for the environment and creates tech consolation and all round is creating around as many problems as it claims to solve.

AI as in neural networks are really good in most ways such as playing chess and detecting melonomas but I’m going to give some tips for spocifically LLMs.

Treat it as a dumb intern. You ask it to find research papers but you have to read them yourself to actually assess them. You can use it to draft an email but you still have to proofread it. You can use it to write code but expect bugs and unhandled edge cases.

I’m a software developer and I use an LLM to create code generators, internal tooling, a thing that takes a json and outputs SQL insert statements or to look up docs. The AI has not increased my productivity per se but the tooling I created with it has.

Another use case is to ask for critique, you paste some code block in and ask it to review performance for example and it can spot the “use a hash map there” cases pretty easily.

That’s my 2 cents on the topic.

Not sure which one I would pick. Pokemon Blue, Oblivion, Star Wars KOTOR, Warcraft 3 or Super Mario 64 maybe. All of them were amazing and had a lasting impact on me.

More recently I played Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire and Return to the Obra Dinn

Back end development is just communicating with a database via http. Rest is experience. I’d recommend trying out something like dotnet where you setup a template and tinker with it and test via postman or something. Then try to use small amount of js to communicate with the server. After that you more or less learned all there is for basic backend and the rest is just pure programming experience and task specific solutions.