• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    141·
    20 hours ago

    Worthless certificate since there’s no such thing as “AI”. I think the worst thing that anti-“AI” people can do is buy into these grifter tropes.

    Also, I’m personally good with stackexchange/etc, but I’m not mad at people who want to get info from a chatbot as long as they use it well.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      13 hours ago

      I consider LLMs basically high-frequency StackExchange trading. You gotta be exact and not keep the thread alive too long or driftrot is real though. Much faster to parse, though.

      Also, the ones that can access the web are great for “I want specific lib x version y to solve a weird problem, what support libs are needed?”

  • wagesj45@fedia.io
    351·
    1 day ago

    100% Organic Bugs, Naturally Sourced, No Tests and No Documentation Guaranteed

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
    562·
    1 day ago

    I fucking love AI.

    I’ll qualify that with a small personal story on it: I have a colleague in a nearby office the other side of the city, who steps into supervise his team when the actual manager isn’t there. Nice bloke, not much banter, but pleasant enough.

    You can fucking guarantee though that when a division-wide email has gone out, or a change of plan comes in… he’s right on the phone to me asking what to do.

    The first few times it was cute. A guy must really love his job or hate himself to go into junior management, so walking him through routine tasks he may not have been exposed to may be beneficial to him in the long run.

    The problem is, it’s near constant. Every single time something changes, he calls - not for advice, not for opinion, but “can you do this for my team too?”. What really pulls a hair out of my arse is that there’s a 50/50 chance of it being something I’ve already showed him. I’ve spoken to his actual manager at exasperated length but it’s just a can kicked down the road with a “well he’s still learning, isn’t he?”

    I suppose he is, and I’m no teacher. When he phones now, I just tell him “mate our org has access to that fancy new Microsoft Copilot, it’s fuckin’ mint bro, solves all your problems”, knowing fine well the disaster that’s about to happen - partly to expose him to new technologies, but mainly to be a smug cunt.

    Invariably, he gets solutions that don’t quite work, or ideas that don’t quite fit the brief… and it’s satisfying as fuck getting the follow-up call and saying “sorry bruv, Copilot is smarter than me, which isn’t hard” or “nah sorry dude, it gives you a personalised response so that’ll be outside of my domain, making my suggestions worthless”.

    Fucking love it. It has reduced my workload immensely.