ToxicWaste@ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe

Replying to @⁨themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩

unpopular opinion, especially on the fediverse, but: AI is not inherently bad.

it is a tool, that can do everything to a pretty low standard but rather fast. so it is up to the learnt human to use the thing at the right time. i use the company ai at regularly at work, but treat it as an apprentice: every line of code has to be checked, because it will fail hilariously. but it does type faster than me, so simple and boring jobs can be done by it.

i don’t see the appeal of avoiding generated code at all cost. it is not different from human code in that it can fail horribly. the important thing is oversight. is there someone with the knowledge and keen eye to ensure no BS is merged. Linus, in my opinion, spent a lifetime building that reputation.

grrgyle@grrgyle@slrpnk.net

Replying to @⁨ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe⁩

I have access to essentially unlimited local compute at my work. Some of my coworkers use it to run LLMs, some use the pre-enshittified corporate models, and I gave all that a shot—like really went for it, but ultimately would rather just work at my own pace.

In my workplace the people who use them come off as kind of frantic to my eye. Like they’re always making these overly engineered greenfield things no one asked for, which gets them a shout out at quarterly and then no one ever thinks of it again…

I’m not saying there’s 0 legitimate use for the technology if you could divorce it from its problematic origins, but I’m not that smart, and people are increasingly coming to me for help when previously they seemed happy to just talk to their little corporate minder.

I feel like chatbot and text generating models generally encourage dark patterns we don’t even have names for yet and I’m just highly wary of the whole thing.

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clif@clif@lemmy.world
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Replying to @⁨grrgyle@slrpnk.net⁩

I’ve spent the last 9 months coming in behind these “look what I did! AI!” projects and fixing them. One was turned over to a coworker as a “here I did all this work for you” … Wouldn’t even start because it tried to bind to the same TCP port three times in the init, for some reason.

It’s getting a little better, but I still mostly unfuck shit that people LLMd and then (they) walked away to much fanfare at their “expertise” to do it again.

It’s a tool, not a replacement for thought.