Lol, they completely over estimate how many people actually use AI I guess? I have used it like 3 or 4 times ever in 2 years. Im pretty sure I will be iust fine. I would much rather see RAM prices return to normal so everything else would be normal.
I made some bad art using crayon ai like three years ago and never used anything ever again
I’d be 100% fine, and I’m a fucking systems analyst, a job where you’d think AI might actually be helpful.
But honestly, nope it’s not. Even for basic data parsing and analysis, it takes more time for me to double check AIs work, understand what it’s doing, then correct its mistakes than it would for me to just do it right the first time.
Let me put it another way; a job that takes me two hours on my own would probably take at least 3 hours if I had AI do it, when I factor in the proofing and corrections, plus there’s the additional cost of the AI itself, so I have a hard time seeing how it will EVER be more cost efficient to use AI. Especially with ai prices keep going up, and its use raises overall energy prices for everyone.
It rarely saves time, and pretty much never saves money, so I’m kind of wondering what the point is, other than selling a pipe dream to dipshit boomer ceo’s that don’t understand basic math, but view employees as a wasted expense they want to get rid of
selling a pipe dream to dipshit boomer ceo’s that don’t understand basic math, but view employees as a wasted expense they want to get rid of
Seems to me that you totally understand what the point of “AI” is.
But honestly, nope it’s not. Even for basic data parsing and analysis, it takes more time for me to double check AIs work, understand what it’s doing, then correct its mistakes than it would for me to just do it right the first time.
Because you’re doing this. The majority of people bull shit their job and made mistakes with confidence long before AI existed. What kept companies functional were the people like you that actually kept stuff functioning. Finding others mistakes, actually verifying information, etc.
Do what works best for you. I know that I can’t bull shit jobs like a lot of other people. If I don’t understand something, or if I put little effort into something, I get fucking bored. And when I’m bored my ADHD literally will not let me work. I can’t even do the minimum and BS with AI or something. I literally can’t respond to an email.
I wish I could be like most people and do the bare minimum and be confident. But, I can’t.
It’s why I hate my field and have left it now. They forced AI on software developers. Which worked for the code monkeys. It made them really efficient and spitting out spaghetti code. But, the people that wanted to maintain code and stability. We were basically thrown out in a lot of companies. We were slowing down “development”. Some of them are still there and they are burned the fuck out trying to keep things afloat.
You’re not wrong. But you’re not the average person. The average person doesn’t care about understanding something. They just pick the “best guess” on a multiple choice test of life and are fine with it.
The AI gives them a better chance of picking the right answer. They move on. They don’t think about it again and don’t care if it was correct or in understanding it.
And the companies, they are profiting from a bubble. They give zero shits about the product they sell. The entire economy is running like Elon Musk promising “the next big thing” every year for 10 years without delivering. It’s all just financial speculation.
it’s been said that reverse-engineering takes three times as long as writing it on your own. Yet everyone prefers reverse-engineering stupid ai answers instead of thinking for themselves. Make it make sense
Dumbest question I’ve seen all day.
I went 18+ years in my career without using it but I sometimes use it now. I could easily go back. Could the moron who wrote that?
It’s even worse than the response. I’m struggling to find an elegant analogy, but suffice to say that many of us that use it every day would be totally fine going back to doing it the old way. And the environmental impact! And cognitive impact! Yeah, it would be a change, but it’s nothing like meth. (Not that I’ve ever done meth, but I’ve known addicts.)
Yeah, I mean, we were doing things just fine before it. Getting through “an entire workday”? I mean yeah, it’s a challenge, but any LLM or lack of one plays no part in that. Mostly out of touch middle managers and the sales people.
I’m just now realizing there’s a very clear shared quality between those and LLMs…
If AI were banned I’d just go back to not being pressured into using something that is a mixed bag in terms of usefulness. Yesterday I used an LLM to try to clean up some tech debt in a codebase. The result is so many code changes that it feels like I should vet what strategies it employed and then once confirmed they are good strategies, make the changes myself in a cleaner and more surgical way. Which wouldn’t use a fuckton of electricity like the LLM did. The way the LLM did things edited over 100 files and added tons of comments that won’t matter 3 weeks from now. Reviewing all that feels like more work than if I did it myself. I guess I could just blindly trust it if I was an idiot. In the end it may have taught me a couple of things but it’s unclear if this is worth it.
As far as my works concerned it was a lot easier to find manuals and diagrams on Google before the AI steamroller. I know it was essentially there in the shape of the algorithm but clearly something different between these two monsters.
I’ve done my job just fine the last 10 years because I RTFM.
They should try running chatgpt in their brain when it’s not online
Oh my god I can’t wait
He should chatgpt what people did before chatgpt
Yes, actually. I’ve spent most of my adult life making art and writing fantasy, and fully intend to continue doing so because I enjoy the process. In fact, it’d help me feel like my decade in industry was worth something
I value you.
It’s nice to have but I find myself using it less than I did ATM.
How often did you ATM?
A couple of times a week
It’s a tool. Don’t be a tool.
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Doesn’t Word have spell check for decades? If you “triple check” your AI, aren’t you just adding more work? If you only need a spell checker, get a spell checker. Having AI spend 20 times the processing power needed for that is still extremely inefficient.
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We probably don’t need to build multiple terabytes of data centers for a better spell checker.
I completely agree. What I forgot to add was that I would be just fine without it. And the people who send in complaints would not have as much text mass with nonsense to plow through either.
