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I've actually had pretty good luck with Claude, but I only use it for very specific troubleshooting tasks
I've used various AIs to troubleshoot stuff (especially to learn Linux), and they're usually very helpful, but every so often I do have to catch them being lazy or lying like above.
yeah, that's kinda I've been using Claude for.
I recently decided to bite the bullet and migrate my 2012 iMac plex server to Fedora 44, which I knew would be a pretty painful transition due to some hardware issues with the machine (primarily the Burt-out primary display) and some other apple weirdness. and I was right. in order to save myself about a week of googling the answers to my problems, it only took me about 8 hours to get Fedora up and running.
now, this was about 4 weeks ago, which was just before claud's last update, and I'd say that the main difference I notice is that, during long interaction sessions, the previous model would start to lose its memory and get "confused", offering progressively less-useful answers/solutions until I just had to start a new session. that problem seems to be resolved in the new model. I've been using it over the past few weeks to iron out a few remaining bugs here and there, and I've noticed a big improvement int he quality of the interaction int he latest model update.
but I don't really use it for more than that, just to save time in hours and hours of digging up solutions to problems. plus, Clause is very good at explaining exactly what the problem was, why this-or-that happened, why and how this-or-that works, etc. I've actually learned a lot about Fedora and linux from my interactions. and I considered myself moderately knowledgable before.
That sounds like a perfect use case for it. I'm not a tech professional or anything, so I also learned a lot of the basics by having it explain stuff to me.
AI is very useful for very specific tasks, such as searching its own vast database (or the internet) for information and then presenting it in a format relevant to your needs context. or summarizing it in a relevant way. this can be great for troubleshooting, especially for a niche problem, like installing modern linux on a 14 year-old iMac.
or so I've found ツ
edit: btw, if you're wondering, bog-standard Fedora 44 Workstation runs like a dream on that iMac! (once I finally go t in running, that is)
That's awesome. I'm also using hardware from that era for my media server, but not an iMac! Lol, I'm impressed that it worked.
well, the biggest motherfucker was the non-functional internal display. it burned out 8 years ago (as almost all did), but running it headless under MacOS 10.~ was never an issue. That OS always had fallbacks via Apple Remote Desktop and MacOS driver magics.
I'll make a post later and write up the fill details (the workarounds/fixes were surprisingly simple, but very difficult to find, and I never would have found them on my own)
edit: I tried ChatGPT first, and while I got reasonably far, it just either pointed me in the right direction or handed me an answer without context, Claud actually found what I needed immediately, but also explained everything in detail and also WHY everything worked the way it did, gave me background, context, alternative options, approaches, and more.
Incredibly niche situations like that are the best tech help posts, because you could be a lifesaver to someone who finds themselves in that exact trouble again one day.
see, I'm not a tech or even a linux newbie, but I don't often find myself in especially weird/niche situations. I also don't like spending days/weeks trying to dig through decades of forum posts looking for the one other person ever to have a problem sort of similar to mine twelve years ago and then to try interpolating their solution from another distro to mine while being unaware of possibly hundreds of variables which might make a difference, leading me down a month-long road of trial-and-error until I come up with a maybe-solution that might work until I widdle it down to something that actually resembles what I want. I know that I don't like this because I've spent decades wasting time going through this many times before. I suspect many people have.
no. I'll ask claud to do all that process for me in 5 seconds and spit out a solution that works now, and I don't feel bad for using Claude for that, especially if it actually teaches me all of the process while it's at it.
That 2012 iMac (intact) will also run Mint, Zorin, ubuntu, debian, desktop editions.
More DDR3 SODIMMS help, or choose a lightweight desktop environment.
The camera is fussy to get running but crappy anyway, and start with ethernet cable to network. One of them loaded the camera okay, maybe zorin?
Also: easy to upgrade the hdd to ssd on those.
the only reason it's any good at that is some helpful human already developed great documentation of the process and put it online. search should have been sufficient
no. in that instance, search would have been sufficient.
but if that answer came in the form of tens of thousands of fragmented answers delivered over hundreds of thousands of forum posts/replies made over the course of 35+ years, then AI is able to parse all of that in seconds rather than making me do that over the course of, possibly, years (or just giving up long before then)-- and that's a process I've already been through many, many times before over the decades.
no, if I can just save a bunch of time and simply ask Claude and get a reply that will not only give me the solution I need, but also explain to me exactly why the problem existed in the first place and why the solution works, then the AI is working is a positive way that's worthwhile.
i think that is pretty much not happening under any conceivable circumstance.
But it has. Repeatedly. And it often continues to do so. There are few things that contemporaneous AI truly excels at, but that’s definitely one of them: aggregating disparate information into condensed information summaries and drawing logical conclusions based off of that disparately assembled information. especially when that information is technical in nature.
And managing to do so all while teaching me all about the subject matter at hand better than I would’ve learned it by mucking around blind on my own? Amazing.
Did you even bother reading the previous comment that you replied to?
Today I had a very weird issue at work that involved Veeam (backup software).
It was surprisingly able to parse the small pcap file I did sort of for fun/last effort try.
After the troubleshooting I went through it manually and found what it was talking about.
Neat.
when you've got some output file/error log that you've been staring at for hours and just can't find that damn problem, and you can feed it into an AI that can just spit it out a second later and say, "Oh, here's the issue!"... yeah, that's pretty seductive.
the problem comes up when it doesn't explain why/what the problem is. if it doesn't teach you anything, if you learn nothing from it. then you get lazy/less competent... your job requires less competency and you're easily replaced by those who are less competent. then you become replaceable. useless.
the tool must help you, not replace you.
Agreed. The network capture was just to see if it gives me an "Sorry I can't do that