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This isn't an AI story, it's a "completely fucking idiotic sysadmins exist" story.
Treat an AI like the idiot intern without any references you just hired. Gave the idiot intern permission to delete your production database? That's entirely on you, zero sympathy. (Actually, give any developer that power? You get what you deserve.)
It could be a moronic sysadmin, it could just as easily be a moronic exec pushing staff to implement this crap right now and damn the consequences.
⤴️ #MyLastJob
I mean that's kinda the whole point.
Companies are looking at AI to replace people. Either it's ready or it's not.
If you need to treat it like it's an intern, then it's not worth the expense. Anyone hiring interns to be productive doesn't understand why you hire an intern.
As if a 90$/month intern wasn't a good deal lol
You don't hire interns for productivity. If you're intern program is any good it's a time/resource sink. However, it's a good recruiting pipeline and provides young people an opportunity to get real world experience.
Right now it's somewhere between a smart intern and a smart recent grad. A lot depends on what Skills.md and frameworks your org has set up.
Gogo gadget inefficient hallucinating predictive text generator grift
I actually think it's better than that and when you set up multiple pipelines that interact and cross check it starts to ramp up. Definitely true Lemmy has its head in the sand about it though.
This. Yes it seems wasteful or whatever but you need bots with prompts that review the work, kick it back to the coder bot to re-do, yadda. But at the end of the day you have a thing that Fixes Your Bugs and Implements Basic Features For You.
No it's not. You're giving it way too much credit.
People don't wanna hear that around here. But I agree, with the right instructions it's better than a junior Dev. Loads faster, and mistakes can be fixed faster, and if you update the prompts then it learns better from mistakes too.
People don't want to hear it anywhere because you're lauding the benefits of a parasitic technology which is inherently hostile towards workers.
And if you're getting paid for it, it makes you a parasite too, or at least more complicit than the average person.
Maybe your position would be better served by not lashing out at people as if they're your enemy.
Multiple things can be true at the same time. Statements about the technical capability of a technology don't detract from the negative impacts on the world. Those are two different topics.
Fossil fuels have incredibly massive, civilization-scale problems that are actively harming the modern world AND ALSO have enabled industrialization, pulling billions out of poverty.
AI is objectively capable at some tasks AND ALSO is being used to disrupt the labor market and causing other harmful effects in society.
The world isn't black and white
OMG adult balanced take with no detectable outrage
Black and white, no, but things can be evaluated on their net impact. And in that evaluation, AI is shit.
I understand the arguments, today isn't my first day on the Internets.
The comment that was responded to was in a conversation talking about the technical capabilities and how it doesn't matter what the truth is on that topic because some people don't want to hear it because they only can view AI in a 2-diminsional, black or white, net good or net bad way.
Then you showed up like a caricature of the type of irrationality that they were discussing.
I even explained the, very obvious, context that you breezed right passed and yet you're still grinding that same talking point without a moment of self reflection.
My company is in the process of pivoting hard to Claude after 50yrs of doing virtually everything themselves and rolling their own versions of already-existing software, and this is almost verbatim how I've described to others what it feels like to use it.
It feels like cajoling an intern to understand a job for which they have some average skill but zero motivation, and they only want to do the bare minimum, so you spend all the time you could be doing your job holding their hand through basic tasks.
It's fucking annoying.
negl sounds like you need to spend some time writing good documentation. May as well do it in the form of Skills files so humans and bots both are more quickly able to be useful in your org.
“Treat an AI like an idiot intern without any references you just hired.”
Instead of this, treat AI like some dude off the street who you didn’t hire and leave it out of your life. It’s shitty, it’s wasteful, and it’s subsidized by everyone to get a few tech bros rich.
Like seriously, it’s just theft of people’s work it “trained on”, powered by energy companies that charge us more to power it, at the cost of poisoning our water supplies, to ultimately try and steal our salaries one day.
It’s absolutely parasitic software at every level.
Nah, I think I'm going to keep using it