Which AI do you use?

[CaffeineAddict]

No time for it. Never will have. If y'all want to use it, be my guest. I shan't bother, though.....

I see no point in resisting the AI, my only reason against it so far was privacy concern, however it's meaningless because querying the AI is just like querying a search engine, your searches are not private unless terms say so.

What other reasons, other than privacy, plagiarism, and lack of human intelligence there could be?
This is all moot point.

 

[GatorsFan]

Tried it a few minutes ago.
Fast and good results.-

How's recovery from surgery going?
Better now, I hope-

My Open Heart surgery recovery is going very well, I now have to deal with a torn meniscus in my left knee, that is quite painful - I have MRI on Fri 29 Aug then see Orthopedic Surgeon on Sep 3 to go over the MRI and discuss my options

 

[KGIII]

I now have to deal with a torn meniscus

Mine flipped. I could not open my leg completely, nor could I close my leg completely. It was extremely uncomfortable, some of the worst pain I've felt in my life - but not the absolute worst.

When you come out of surgery and they make you stand up, be careful. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt like the dickens.

Still, not the worst pain I've had in my life.

I'm going with 'open heart surgery' being the worst pain in my life - except I've yet to deal with that. There's like nothing you can do that doesn't involve moving your torso. In fact, when I was a martial arts student, we were taught to watch the torso because it literally telegraphs anything you're going to do.

I don't want to turn it into a peeing contest, so I won't go into the worst pain I've felt in my life.

Instead, I'll have sympathy for your pain. Man, that has to hurt like a son of a biscuit. I'm truly not sure if I'd let them do open-heart surgery. I might just respectfully decline and accept my limited lifespan because of it. I have severe tachycardia that they can't pinpoint (which is why I keep going back to the doctor). I've already told them that surgery is not an option.

I just can't... Man, let me have a sudden bout of pain for 30 seconds and end it or let me go quietly in my sleep.

My hat's off to you. Good luck with your recovery and give thanks for the poppy plant.

Topping it off with a knee surgery (likely orthoscopic, so 'not bad') is a bit much. Still, it's great to see you coming out the other side. Again, my hat's off to you.

Also, I have my meniscus surgery on VHS. I show it to people and make monster noises 'cause it has no sound track. The tools they use are demonic looking. There's one tool that's like monster teeth that spins inside of a capsule and they use it to eat away at the miniscus. Mine was beyond repair, so they removed it entirely. In some cases, they can stitch it back together. I don't know which one is worse.

Again, having the berries to stand up and take an open-heart surgery, where they crack your ribs open like they're eating a lobster, just stands out to me. That's just not on my list of things I want to do. I'm all about the quality of life vs the longevity. That just sounds like a not so good, very bad experience. That you did so is impressive (at least to me).

Finally, welcome back.

 

[Mike-BTU]

have severe tachycardia that they can't pinpoint (which is why I keep going back to the doctor). I've already told them that surgery is not an option.

I had to look that up to see if I fully understood what that was.

Tachycardia - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic

www.mayoclinic.org

A good friend of mine had that, until about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Took the cardiologists a looong time to figure out how to fix that (and another related heart issue {maybe his heart getting out of sync}). He had two devices implanted, one being a pacemaker. Problems solved! Says he never felt better.

He can't have any more stents or bypasses. Amazing.
DM me if you want to talk to him. Wonderful guy, same age as me.

 

[rado84]

As weird it may sound - MS Copilot (through the web interface). Ironically, they did an amazingly good job with the AI while totally screwing up Windows 10 and 11. Probably bc the AI is a bunch of algorhitms and not an actual OS, so there's nothing to screw up there. It's especially helpful when I get stuck in writing a bash script, if it's about something more complex than the usual stuff.

 

[tinfoil-hat]

I use mostly Grok Ai, it's awesome with tech questions

 

[CptKrf]

Chatgpt mostly, for general questions, but my programming is with a local LLM almost entirely. I finally found a decent high-end GPU at a discount and with it managed to get a 20B LLM working. Specifically, gpt-oss-20b under Ollama.

The local LLMs that I have been playing with for a year or so were interesting, but would not handle anything beyond building simple functions, and many times those were wrong and had to be re-requested again. And again. Or manually fixed. With the new LLM being a huge jump over what I could run before (5b's and 7b's) I can now give it commands to make a huge and complicated script or source. And it almost always runs the first time.

My worry over the last year was that having some pseudo AI do the coding would remove all the fun and interest of hobby programming, but in actuality it has replaced code editing with something else that is equally fun. The success of Vibe Coding is learning how to properly frame your requirement, and that is not always easy. In fact, the best way (for myself) is to present my needs with pseudo code, writing much of the request with ifs and fors and whiles and calls in English. That gives the LLM much more chance of building what I want, otherwise I might get code that works, but can be really wild in its format. Sometimes even wacko. Like, "Wow, I didn't even know that C could do that!"

An advantage is that a project goes together exponentially faster than traditional coding. Way, way faster. In the past, I have spent most of the day plotting pixels to make an image of, say, a speedometer. Now... "Hey, you. Make me a function that builds a speedometer as in the provided image, and make it 200 pixels in diameter, with... etc,etc. Ten seconds after submitting I have the code and the calls to make it work.

Now, I know that ChatGPT (or Gemini or whatever) can do even better, but in my usage it doesn't take long before I get the message that my daily quota of use is filled - please come back in x hours.

AI may turn out for good or bad, but for now it is interesting, for sure. Anyway, my 2 cents.

(Or nickel, since pennies are history).

 

[bob466]

None.

 

[Zev]

I use Google Gemini (and Gemini Studio), ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek as a more versatile version of a search engine most of the time, and to perform operations on non-sensitive data and information.

To perform operations on sensitive data and information, I have oLlama compiled and installed on my Desktop PC running Gentoo, and run the DeepSeek-r1 (general purpose) and DeepSeek-Coder (coding) LLM's fully locally and offline, performance via ROCm is pretty good.

 

[Orsen]

I use ChatGPT to search for information, it’s pretty convenient.

 

[f33dm3bits]

 

[Trynna3]

As weird it may sound - MS Copilot (through the web interface). Ironically, they did an amazingly good job with the AI while totally screwing up Windows 10 and 11. Probably bc the AI is a bunch of algorhitms and not an actual OS, so there's nothing to screw up there. It's especially helpful when I get stuck in writing a bash script, if it's about something more complex than the usual stuff.

Just maybe it was AI that screwed the Win11, as they sacked thousands experienced workers and let the bot do the programming in how many percent? 30? Cannot remember that number.
Today I was working on the work PC with Win11 and onedrive. I changed a document. I am pretty sure I hit save. I originally had it saved on the desktop but it syncs with onedrive. At some point I realised my changes weren't saved, losing 45 minutes of work. I don't know what happened, but it happened before.
I am not using copilot, but I suspect that the copilot is using me.

 

[rado84]

Just maybe it was AI that screwed the Win11, as they sacked thousands experienced workers and let the bot do the programming in how many percent? 30? Cannot remember that number.
Today I was working on the work PC with Win11 and onedrive. I changed a document. I am pretty sure I hit save. I originally had it saved on the desktop but it syncs with onedrive. At some point I realised my changes weren't saved, losing 45 minutes of work. I don't know what happened, but it happened before.
I am not using copilot, but I suspect that the copilot is using me.

Spyware was screwed up long before they put an AI in it. Besides, Copilot doesn't do the same things in the browser that it does in Windows 11.

 

[hasser33]

Curious which one do people here use?
I'm sure there are those who don't use AI at all.

I just started with duck.ai, here are terms that look fine:

Duck.ai Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

duckduckgo.com

duck.ai acts as proxy and uses multiple AI providers.
If you've tried it, what do you think about it?

Using Grok has been pretty smooth, but the grok usage limits definitely shape how you work. For casual chats and quick research, the free tier is fine. Once you start longer projects or heavy daily use, you quickly hit caps, which makes the paid plan feel almost necessary for serious productivity.

grok, chat gpt

 

[sofasurfer]

I don't like doing a google search and being fed 20,000 results that go back decades. AI (which I also see as mainly a spy device in training and a fraud in terms of trying to convince of that its the end-all info tool for us citizens of the world) still gives the fastest and most likely legit info which I use as a starting point for all my searches.

 

[JasKinasis]

Call me a luddite, but I don't use any AI whatsoever. I have no need for it. If I want to do something, I'll do it myself. If I want to automate something, I'll write a script. Sure, AI may make it quicker to do certain things, but it also takes care of the critical thinking and more creative aspects of performing tasks. It just sucks all of the fun out of things.

On my work issued Windows 11 laptop, all AI components have been uninstalled. I have no need for Copilot. The AI chatbot is disabled in Firefox on my Linux PCs. Gemini is disabled for my GMail. I have Siri disabled on my iPhone. No Alexa, no "Hey google!". No smart TV, no other smart/IOT devices whatsoever.
I for one, have no need for any of it!

 

[kc1di]

My Open Heart surgery recovery is going very well, I now have to deal with a torn meniscus in my left knee, that is quite painful - I have MRI on Fri 29 Aug then see Orthopedic Surgeon on Sep 3 to go over the MRI and discuss my options

So sorry to hear of you medical problems. I am just 128 days past a Bone marrow transplant. Went well for me. and so far no Leukemia left. I ha a knee replacement 10 year ago and that has been good also. Mine started with a torn meniscus also. Will be praying for good out come. -Dave

 

[MikeWalsh]

Call me a luddite, but I don't use any AI whatsoever. I have no need for it. If I want to do something, I'll do it myself. If I want to automate something, I'll write a script. Sure, AI may make it quicker to do certain things, but it also takes care of the critical thinking and more creative aspects of performing tasks. It just sucks all of the fun out of things.

@JasKinasis :-

Jason, you're a man after my own heart. Yes, I can maybe understand folks with a busy work schedule liking the fact that they just ask a single question and everything's done for them.....but the fact remains; do they fully understand what the machine's presented them with?

Me, I'm no longer at that stage of life. I'm as near as makes no difference retired. I have no time pressures, and besides, I happen to enjoy doing my own research. Always have. I get a real sense of accomplishment after a research session followed by a spell of scripting.....knowing at the end of the day that it's ALL my own work.

Why would I want to spend all my time merely figuring out how to ask a machine questions??? No makee sense...

I want my brain to remain functional, instead of atrophying from lack of use.

Oh, I'll not deny that "AI" is certainly clever, but.....it's not for me.


Mike.

 

[Rob]

I don't know how I missed this thread.. though, it was started in the summer and i'm apt to be outside as much as possible when it's nice out and slacking off on my Linux duties here.

I use AI quite a bit. Different ones for dif uses..

• Claude: Mostly use this for 'coding'.. I've been coding long enough that it gives a great start, then I can modify it or tell claude it made a bad decision using 'x'.. or that there's a new version of 'x' to pull in, etc..
• chatgpt: Looking through my history, i'll ask it to show me all the movies/shows under a certain umbrella.. (game of thrones for instance), or suggestions for a mini-pc.. instant pot beef stew times/instructions.
• gemini: I have a pixel phone, pixel watch.. i'm always talking to it .. 'turn on/off the lights in xxxx'.. also ask it about healthy meals.. how many calories in this vs that, etc..

Edit: I believe that if you're using AI to 'code' something, as long as you understand the code.. can read through it, understand it.. it's fine. Could I have written some of the projects i've made with AI? Some - but it would have taken longer and they wouldn't have turned out as nice.

I also believe let ppl do what they want - who am I to criticize anyone.. the only rule we have on here pertaining to AI is that you need to say if the code/reply was made with AI assistance so we can put it in the equation.

 

[theLegionWithin]

google's version - because I use chrome and have an android phone and they're all linked together, it makes it easier. I really only use it when using the search engine itself, prompting when trying to narrow down a query. otherwise I dont see a need for it - maybe I'll find another use for it once the tech matures