Yep, I remember this also.
Ended up burning games for other people in the neighbourhood for $5 a game.
Had stacks of games coming in from Malaysia also.
The good old days.
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Ended up burning games for other people in the neighbourhood for $5 a game.
Had stacks of games coming in from Malaysia also.
The good old days.
hammertime
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I remember travelling to Bali in those days. All the bootleg DVDs and games. It was heaven.
hammertime
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Good question mate. I'm in consultancy, so creating case studies and just general summarisation is super powerful.
But I also work heavily with Google. Some of the stuff around media generation, customer experiences, business ops optimisation is incredible. The rate of change is also just off the charts - never seen anything like this era in tech.
How about you?
weststigers
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Now with n8n, python and AI using 1 or all 3 combined, I'm finding that stuff I would do manually or just put up with as too difficult, I can make something custom pretty quickly and deploy so I agree with the rate of change...it is insane.
I mainly use it to process data or turn any repetitive tasks into one-click operations.
I'm using AI more and more for adhoc things too...combining excel files and removing duplicates etc.
I might make a weststigersAI username and have it respond for me here 😅
I run local models using Ollama so I dont put my data on the internet.
Buttface
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TheEnz
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I'm running a POC with Microsoft at the moment using Co-Pilot agents to automate processes in Dynamics365 and some automation around Power BI reporting. We recently used Claude to create a product knowledge base for our client facing staff.
I have come to the conclusion that most products we use today are on an AI journey and will embed it into their offerings. So we need to be careful not to jump the gun and try to build our own bespoke solutions.
All the consulting houses are whispering sweet AI nothings into the ears of CEO's and getting them pumped up, so a full time job at the moment trying to temper expectations and keep the board and leadership team grounded in reality.
TheEnz
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And my fist computer was a Commodore Vic 20....absolutely crazy to live through the last 50 years and experience the progress of technology. Especially the last 25 years whilst I have had a front row seat.
I started my IT career as a IBM Mainframe Computer Operator. When I see old movies or pics with mainframes it's amazing how far we have come.
weststigers
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I can't find an nVidia graphics card with 24gb vram! I have an AMD card.
I am trying to build AI phone agents with my own voice as an experiment running everything locally to minimise lag as much as possible.
What card do you use to run OLlama and what size models are you running?
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TheEnz
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I started 1999 in the Unix/AS400 space. We used to make fun of the Grizzly old mainframe guys, then I moved into Wintel space and we made fun of the grizzly old Unix/AS400 guys 😀
I have OP hacktops and Macs. They do ok for me as its mainly practice and learning.
14g LLMs on average just for playing.
weststigers
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Yes. I'm finding even on my own small scale builds, some new feature rolls out making all my effort a waste of time that can be done in 1 minute rather than 1 day.
Tbh I'm enjoying playing around with it. Totally fascinated.
weststigers
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Ah got it...I could probably get away with 14B Models but haven't tried...how do you find them? I hear they are fine if you choose the model wisely for a specific task?
Are you doing anything special with gemini? I use gems to provide logic, which I find super helpful for my day to day job. Gemini is also great for meetings and summarising the call so I dont have to take notes and worry about missing something.
TheEnz
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I'm using teams premium as an AI agent for meetings...its ok, if the company is paying 🙂
hank37w
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I started work in the data processing department of a large organisation in January 1974 and was there until about September 1977
They still had an IBM 1401, 1403 printer I think and an IBM 360 which from memory was being updated to an IBM 370 around that time.
The 370 was the ants pants at the time and I think one of the banks also had one at the time and there was starting to be a demand for programmers in the PL1 language.
At the same time as this "tech revolution" was occurring we were still using 80 column punch cards and used to load up trolley loads of cards and put them through machines (sorters and collators) that scanned the fields and were able to be programmed to sort and merge the cards in preparation for computer runs.
I ended up learning computer programming and worked out pretty quickly that sitting in a dog box writing programs and producing JCL decks was not my idea of what I wanted to be doing long term and moved on from that.
