The fact that he is puzzled over that just shows how disconnected this company is from its user base.
Bro theres plastic in my balls sorry I’m not impressed you tricked a computer into having conversations by destroying the environment and computer hardware market at the same time. Resouece wise these guys are moving, and consuming heaven and earth and for what? Fucking grok telling us how good at eating shit elmo is?
Elmo’s dedication and ability to endure punishing amounts of shit makes elmo not only the best on Earth, but probably the best in the universe when it comes to eating fetid maggotty rotting shit.
Well, I am impressed by what it can do. I am unimpressed by what higher ups claim it can do.
It never fails to amaze me, how much C-level people are disconnected from reality.
Abstraction layers. They are so detached from everyone else through abstraction layers that we’re nothing more than D2 NPC character sheets to them. That’s why when a Luigi, alegedly, breaks through all of the abstraction layers and brings a leaded reality check to these fucking parasites they double down on palantir like projects to keep themselves safe while making the state even more oppressive and invasive of everyone’s privacy.
What you’re describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.
If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you’re the subject matter expert.
What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?
Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.
Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.
AI is a classic case of Gell-Man amnesia
I’ll add it to the list:
- AI is Assumed Intelligence.
- AI is autocorrect on steroids.
- AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator.
- AI is a classic case of Gell-Mann amnesia.
Managers love these AI tools because that’s what they’re already doing and familiar with; the same way you talk an AI to doing something for you is not very different from the experience of instructing a mediocre worker.
Again?!
He can’t keep getting away with this!!😭
Breaking: Man whose job depends on him not understanding the problem don’t understand the problem
People don’t want more bloat.
IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.
Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.
Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.
Good documentation makes me happy, bad documentation makes me run away. I suspect I’m not the only person who not only reads the fucking manual but thinks writing good technical documentation is an art of its own. Good luck with trying to replace proper documentation with profuse gibberish.
I mostly agree with this, but in corporate software the stuff mostly either doesn’t exist or is outdated to the point of basic inaccuracy.
I’m talking readmes that still have the template information in them or have stayed the same since the first commit.
I am puzzled by that sweater he is wearing. Did he go to the douchebag section of the store?
All the C levels at MS are humongous idiots. It’s a requirement.
I mean yes, but also no. I get the point and it’s a good one, but sounds a bit like people just shouldn’t complain because 200 years ago refrigerators didn’t exist.
So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist*, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.
He couldn’t bring himself to eat it.
Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they’re all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it’s worse than that and they’re used.
Do not want.
* Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women’s issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren’t linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.
But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that’s what I’m responding to. Food for thought.
Unlike 110% of the Lemmy community, I am legitimately impressed by AI. LLMs have increased my productivity both at work and with my own personal hobbies.
Tonight alone, I created dozens of JSON files using an LLM for a game mod I’m developing that would have taken me days if I had created them manually.
My issues with Microsoft have nothing to do with AI (as a concept). Personally, I equate most people who oppose LLMs with the Luddite movement.
Microsoft has many, many issues. Their focus on forcing AI on people who mostly don’t want it is a stupid business decision IMO. They should focus their energy elsewhere.
I’d rather they fix Teams and remove the 4,738 completely useless Clippy notifications they send me daily (on my work computer—fuck using Windows at home).
You needed an AI to create a few dozen JSON files for you or else it would have taken you days?
Maybe the luddites have a point after all.
You are aware that the Luddite movement is not so much a reaction to new tech, but a reaction to the use, or rather abuse of said tech? As somebody who works in tech, I am not opposed by AI as a tool, but using it for the sake of using it does not solve anything.
Tonight alone, I created dozens of JSON files using an LLM for a game mod I’m developing that would have taken me days if I had created them manually.
You don’t need AI to do this, just a few dozen lines of Python…
Ugh, make a liar of me will you? I should have read the replies before stating I wouldn’t be responding. But I hate blatant misinformation.
I could create a quadrillion JSON files using Python if I was aiming for quantity alone. For context, I was creating character profiles for video game characters that were derived from the public wikis. Good luck creating a Python code to read through an NPC’s wiki entry (and related entries) and then generating their personality, background, significant events, and relationships into a logical JSON file with ‘a few dozen lines of Python’.
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Personally, I equate most people who oppose LLMs with the Luddite movement.
Ah, so you see them as intentionally misrepresented by the media, and not fighting progress but instead fighting against the unsafe standards of the time?
A movement formed in response to job theft, and at the same time, lack of safety laws. Started because of child deaths in the newly forming industrial machining factories (literally btw, crushing most often)
And they did win, in the end, under a new name and organised group, with the same goals. They’re why child labour laws exist, and why there’s maximum work hours per week, and legally mandated holiday time.
Yeah it makes sense, but you obviously knew that already as you’re so knowledgeable
Yeah, I’m not going to respond to the replies. I thought I made it clear; I already know that Lemmy has a collective ragegasm whenever someone says something positive about AI. You don’t need to tell me how much you hate it, I know. I just don’t care.
