I have developed a deeply toxic relationship with my navigation app.
When I get in the car, it predicts my arrival time down to the exact minute.
I view this prediction as a direct insult to my driving capabilities.
If it says I will arrive at 4:12 PM, I will violate local traffic laws to arrive at 4:11 PM.
Yesterday I was driving to the dentist and the ETA was stubbornly holding steady.
The app suggested a faster route that would save me exactly 40 seconds.
The new route required me to cut through a gravel quarry and merge blindly across three lanes of a major interstate.
I executed the maneuver with the reckless abandon of a bank robber.
I drove over a grassy median just to shave precious seconds off my digital timeline.
I arrived at the dentist trembling with adrenaline and completely covered in dust.
I beat the algorithm by two full minutes.
Then I sat in the waiting room for an hour reading a dental hygiene pamphlet.
I risked vehicular manslaughter for a logistical victory that literally no one cared about.
Tomorrow I am going to try and beat my ETA to the grocery store by driving on the sidewalk.
Im also thinking about this. Stop sending children to CBSE. Start looking at IB/Cambridge syllabus in Indian schools. If children want to opt for medical career, then UCAT/BMAT exams will help entry into good foreign universities. If anyone has experience in this switch, please discuss here. I have lost complete faith in this country and its pseudoscience infiltrated educational system.
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Going out on a limb here - all of Modi infrastructure will amount to a net zero if not massive net negative impact over the next decade or so.
You will still be driving three hours a day in Mumbai. Average road travel speed will be stuck below 60kph.
Number of fatalities will be same.
Trillions spent for nothing.
If you want to succeed more with AI development tooling, learn to let go a little bit.
The more you loosen the reins on being pedantic about it, the more effectively AI will work.
Add in some deterministic guardrails like linters, tests, compilers, and CI checks. Then the agent will learn to self-heal its own mistakes.
@shachinb Numbers should not be recycled, specially now a days when they are linked with aadhar, pan, upi and all sort of stuff. My mom faced similar issue with number linked to her aadhar, had to run pillar to post to get it changed.
@shachinb@amazonIN I usually go in rufus (their ai chatbot) and say i want to talk to customer service, that usually provides an option to live chat and call