> However, for some reason, both Gemini and ChatGPT tend to argue with me

The trick here is: "Be succinct. No commentary."

And sometimes a healthy dose of expressing frustration or anger (cursing, berating, threatening) also gets them to STFU and do the thing. As in literally: "I don't give a fuck about your stupid fucking opinions on the matter. Do it exactly as I specified"

Also generally the very first time it expresses any of that weird shit, your context is toast. So even correcting it is reinforcing. Just regenerate the response.

I work for a fintech. We're currently building agents to manage basic human labor tasks that are time consuming (think: initial credit analysis, initial web research for AML, etc.). Chatbots are a waste of the actual power behind engineering with LLMs. With tool usage, and detailed instructions, we're easily able to direct the agents to do very useful work. While it has been possible to build these kinds of automations previously, the costs (time and opportunity) would have been astronomical to capture and encode the reasoning in a programming language. Now we can simply ask the robot in plain language to do the task. It won't reduce our headcount, but it will enable scaling the business with way less hands. And the cost to develop is very minimal. The first MVP for the credit analysis robot was vibe coded in an afternoon using an off-the-shelf lib. Doing the actual engineering is trivial context management and tool integration. The challenge is having the kinds of problems we do where these kinds of solutions make sense. In finance and insurance, there are tons of these manual human tasks that could benefit from the robots. I expect this space to explode in the next couple of years.

Do you have an iGPU+dGPU combo like in a gaming laptop? For my 2019 gaming laptop with a i915+RTX2060, if I leave the switchable option on in the hardware settings (meaning the OS can choose which GPU to use ie. iGPU for low power), I end up with similar behavior in Linux/Win10. The external port actually uses the dGPU so rendering must go through it but it will struggle with the switchable option and I end up with freezing or stutters. In Linux, I explicitly configure Xorg to only use the iGPU and reserve the dGPU for model inference which fixes the stuttering issue. When booting into Win10, I explicitly disable the iGPU and turn off the external monitor so my VR playing doesn't stutter or youtube doesn't freeze or stutter.

10786 :-D https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bHcorjm...

I'll take an eclectic bunch of weirdos who all do and like cool shit over the corpo conformist normies any day. Super easy to suss out who is who when you first meet them. Just ask what they like to do when they aren't laboring under the thumb of capitalism. The cool people will talk your ear off about some esoteric whatever.