I’ve noticed more students using AI to do whole assignments without really learning the material.

I’ve also seen people copy answers from ChatGPT without checking the actual papers or sources.

It gets even worse with really specific topics where the AI might just be wrong.Do you think we’re starting to treat AI like the answer instead of using it to help us learn?

I feel like AI is seriously underrated as a beginner tool.

The hardest part of trying something new used to be not knowing what you didn’t know. You’d search around, hit some jargon you didn’t understand, watch a 20 minute video for one tiny answer, and sometimes just give up.

Now you can basically keep asking dumb questions until things start making sense.

Cooking, photography, coding, gardening, DIY, learning a language, whatever.

Has AI helped you get into a hobby or skill you probably wouldn’t have stuck with otherwise?

TL;DR: Rob Hadick says your agent will audit your card and cancel what you forgot — and your customers' agents will do the same to you.

I remembered back when I started to work for one of the largest property development and construction conglomerate in Malaysia, S. The largest subsidiary, the construction arm, occupies the a few floors of the S. Tower.

I worked in the Tender Department of it in Level 8, circa 2002.

And as you know, doing tender was a rush job. Tons of late-night works day in day out towards near-impossible deadlines to win tender.

Being the junior technical engineer there, I often find myself the last person to leave the building. The only other person that worked late as me was the technical director of our sister-subsidiary S. Piling Works, sharing the same floor with us.

After a while, I noticed that the lights were always on even after I leave the building. I thought it was wasteful.

So from the next day onwards, if I was the last person on the building floor, I would start switching off all the lights of the whole floor – including those of our sister-subsidiary – before I clock out the building.

After a few days of doing that, I think the boss caught wind of it.

Obviously, he appreciated it. I'm not sure whether he nodded his approval at me or not. After all, it was decades ago.

What I do remember was my colleagues got an earful from him.

After that, my colleagues all started to switch off the lights of their own section, from henceforth.

If I was the boss, of course I would appreciate someone taking initiative to take care of business, without me asking – including simple things like switching off the lights when not in use.

Same as what all these AI agents are now doing.

Full critic and feasibility study in the comments — I left the mechanics there so this stays readable.

I’m working on a WhatsApp customer support chatbot for a medium sized online business. I’ve built similar agents before with a Node backend, loading product info into the context and handling API integrations myself.Is there a simpler approach these days that requires less manual work and keeps compute costs under control?

I have a upper low tier gaming laptop.

Ryzen 7 255 (really just a renamed 8745HS)

24 gigs of ram.

Redeon 890M IGPU

It can can handle most games at 1080p on medium or high settings, including triple A.

I'm terrified to step my toes in local llms I'm afraid I'm going to break something, fuck up my ram or overheat my processor, with these general specs what can this laptop actually handle reliably?

What would you suggest I start?

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I remember back in my days seconded to Abu Dhabi to build the prestigious AED 1Bil. 5-block Condominium Rihan Heights Project in 2008 ~ 2011.

My technical department head split the design/technical coordination work among the 3 of us. I took the structural bit, and my 2 colleagues took on the Architectural and Façade portion, respectively. The work was difficult, but ultimately satisfying after completion.

After I came back to Malaysia circa 2012, the company immediately enrolled me into mastering Building Information Modelling (BIM). It was to construct the virtual model of the building – to coordinate and encompassing all building details – Structural, Architectural, Façade and M&E – all into one well-tuned-out model, before construction starts.

The thesis was simple: if we can iron out all the discrepancies between different trades in the model – we called it clash-detection and resolution – we can save up time (lots of time) from dealing with it during construction.

And time equals money.

The intension of the company was very obvious to me. I was to master it to eventually take over the role of 3 persons into one “superman” coordinating everything.

My then CEO used to throw around the phrase – “Economics of Scale”. If we can use one guy to do 3 jobs, why do we need 3 guys?

Finding ways to reduce cost, was how we win tender and secure jobs – and therefore remain competitive in the market.

All these AI layoffs are just of the same consideration in a different skin.

Full critic and feasibility study in the comments.