
Originally Posted by
Slab
I've learned a couple things these last few, beware of AI. AI is powerful. Let me repeat, AI is here, and it is powerful. It essentially is all the information on the internet, summarized for you at will. We've used it in this conversion repeatedly, over and over, and it helps tremendously. It's essentially "instant answers" to problems, saves tons of time. The problem with this is, if you're stupid, you'll believe everything it says, if you're wise, you learn to read between the lines. It does give out wrong answers, but if you can read between the lines, it's absolutely awesome. Next, I also see it's taking away tons of jobs. For one, no need for paralegals (already seen these jobs disappear), or anyone that does grunt work computer coding. Lots of jobs are going to be lost. Best advise I can gave the youth in the old days was, get into computers. Not so much anymore as computers are taking over all the computer jobs! lol Now you kinda have to do stuff with your hands IMHO. Blue collar jobs are golden.
Anyway, the tentative plan is to start the conversion on Wednesday, and go live on the new system on Sunday. So we won't be down at all, we'll just be running off Wednesdays data on Sunday. So we'll simply loose those posts made from Wednesday to Sunday. This is a tremendous improvement from a 12 day loss of data.
Also unreal is the cost of an upgrade like this. I see quotes of from 7 grand to 12 grand to convert a data base our size. My buddy Adam and I are doing it ourselves. Well, mostly Adam, thanks Adam. He is the man. I'm telling you, I'm gonna nominate him as 2026 Man of the Year here on Crappie.com if this is successful.