> Is it just applying past experiences to a new situation, or can you learn to look for solutions?
You can achieve anything you put your mind to. It took me a while to realize this. Turns out the brain is a marvelous machine and once it has a goal (solve such and such a problem) it will try everything in its power to solve it, since it's a goal-oriented machine. People doubt their own capabilities, and don't believe in themselves, which is their own downfall.
AI for me is just a small assistant role I hire when creating projects. It's not the whole product/service with all its moving parts which require a human-in-the-loop. It's not going to spit out a fully fledged SaaS enterprise for you or run a business for you.
You can get Windows 10/11 serials on eBay rather cheaply. How they source them is beyond me. Maybe they buy them in bulk at a discount and then resell them. So far I've had no problems with Microsoft detecting and then revoking my licenses.
That would require knowing all the user agents that would scrape content, assuming that you want to only exclude AI scrapers and not search engines in general.
OpenAI's user agent is GPTBot[1], I am not sure about the others.
How are you proposing to distinguish between "AI" and "search engines"? Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general.
> Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general.
There is still a difference between scraping content for the purpose of searching it and training on it.
> Are there any smartphone models that receive as much love, and last as long?
Most smartphones have planned obsolescence[0] built in, so they force you to upgrade. A truly long-time phone would be one of those 'dumb' or 'feature phone' phones by Nokia. Some even ship with 4G compat and have apps like WhatsApp built in, and nothing else. There is a myth I want to dispel that these are 'senior phones'. They have real value for all generations.
> Is there a rationale for leaving money on the table?
Sometimes I just want to do a project for fun and plop it on Github and see people's reaction. Not everything has to be monetized, and that can sometimes become an ulterior motive: 'If I keep releasing stuff with monetization I will profit' mentality creeps in.
You can achieve anything you put your mind to. It took me a while to realize this. Turns out the brain is a marvelous machine and once it has a goal (solve such and such a problem) it will try everything in its power to solve it, since it's a goal-oriented machine. People doubt their own capabilities, and don't believe in themselves, which is their own downfall.