A few weeks ago I overthrew my insistence of negativity to A.I. If, in the future, it wants to take over the world I won’t be here anyway. So, why not give it a go while I am not yet a corpse? I went ahead and am working with three now. Co-Pilot, Windsurf, and Replit which is a “Claude” version. If this seems unfamiliar to you it was to me also.
I did a rather exhaustive search on the internet because I was not interested in making silly images or having something write my websites for me. I have been fumbling through the English language longer than most and am set in my ways, for good or ill. What I was interested in was designing software installation tutorials for Linux and Debian software. I work with servers most everyday but sysadmin is something I have never been trained in. A.I. is and this is why I threw myself into learning A.I.
It’s been a journey with some success and many failures as one must learn how to speak to a.I. before expecting any worthwhile results. I’ve spent hours doing this and have just now figured out that, like a good friend, you have to explain yourself and your intentions before A.I. will work with you properly. “Build me a monument to myself” doesn’t work as a query. It has to know you and what you work with first before it can put out anything qualifying as progress toward a specific goal. These things are what I should have understood but it takes a while to understand something as new as A.I.
My wife just shakes her head as I cruise into unknown vistas. It is fun to watch as she is interested only in our relationship but wonders at who this guy is, so old and yet so deep into trying to learn something so exotic as A.I. I tell her that the last thing I want is to loose my mind and the only way to do that is to keep my brain involved in learning. If you’re seventy-six, or want to be, you have to keep your brain in gear. Being in neutral is the end of thought. Being in fourth gear keeps you on the highway of life. I know, it’s a dumb analogy but it is what works for me and I always try to be honest.
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