AI [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
AI [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
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He immediately threatens her job. Classy.
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And realistic!
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It's an automated response
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At our wor k they have a big push for everyone to use AI. I used AI to try to do things faster, it's terrible in it. The time you save with it in the beginning because it helps you rubberducking you and your peers lose at the end by finding out late that it bullshitted and contradicted itself and you copy and pasted it to be faster. I have so many examples of it.
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They enabled some AI in Outlook for some of us as beta testers. You write a few words with the basic idea of the mail and it bullshits it into a full page full of nonsense with your initial words "summarized" in some bullet points most of the times
Then when you receive one of those emails it can summarize it into just a few words
We are truly living in the future!
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That is what drives me crazy. Society had largely gotten over the 'write stupidly verbose crap for the sake of professionalism' and that's like the first thing they want to bring back. Send me the stuff you would have fed to the LLM, if I want LLM to expand on it, I'll ask it. I don't need to wade through a bunch of pointless padding words to figure out what your damn point was.
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Go back, and correct each example. One by one. Now a 2 hour manual job takes all week with AI.
Then when your boss asks why you aren't using AI to make things faster, you tell him "Well I DID use AI. It completed the job in 5 minutes. Now I'm just checking for all of it's errors. For example, this contract had your vendors paying you in corn. I had to go back and correct that. Unless you DO want me to just use AI, spend 5 minutes, and we use our entire team on this project for you to be paid in corn....."
I have a feeling that AI will be cancelled pretty quick.
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I love PowerShell but I use it so infrequently that I'm constantly relearning the syntax.
If I need a quick script to scrape date from a system and update a runbook, asking ChatGPT to give me a PowerShell command that pipes the output to excel saves me hours.
For writing small simple functions in an unfamiliar language, it is an absolute godsend. Makes IT way easier.
For anything else it's worthless.
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Yeah, if used correctly it's awesome. You have to be proficient enough in what you do to catch its bullshit though. Currently getting back into coding and learning Python syntax. It's awesome for that, however there also has been a few moments when it confidently wrote complete bullshit.
It's basically like a talking, semi context-aware search engine. Don't make it generate big stuff though.
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Though then have to be careful. I had a requirement to implement a security feature in an unfamiliar language. I gave it a shot and upon reviewing the output, if the code had worked as it wrote it, then it would have had a gaping security hole a mile wide making things worse than they already were, and the bit needed to implement the security was a waste of time. In this case, two wrongs made a right, as it also hallucinated some functions that didn't exist so the code wouldn't have even built.
I can see LLM integrated into the IDE maybe providing a quicker entry to some very obvious logic, but it's a careful UI consideration in terms of balancing offering helpful capabilities versus making the user undo a bunch of times when it was in fact not helpful.
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There's one other use case I love - i ask it to interview me or challenge me on my ideas. It can sometimes ask questions that cause me to rethink things. But in the end, I'm still the one doing the work. It's my advanced rubber duck.
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There's a push to use it in my office. Specifically to hopefully reduce the number of people we need to review cases and code them appropriately.
Ooooh they said, Ai can totally do that!
Then in the most recent meeting, it changed to "Ai will give the clerk a summary and recommendation!" So we aren't reducing the number of clerks, and they'll just follow whatever the Ai says rather than checking the cases themselves. Just another thing to train them on and have go wrong.
In the interest of pleasing my bosses, the research is continuing, but I have little hope it's going to be helpful. I talked them out of giving the text to the clerk, but instead save the recommendation and see how it matches up to the clerk. Then it's at least a fair test.