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I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There are people who can't properly function without an llm. And it's not just a few, a good bunch of humans have decided to leave the reasoning skills to a chatbot so they don't have to do it.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is both expected and mystifying at the same time.

How dead in the head do you have to be to RELY on such things?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I used to work as a software trainer at a big corporation. More than half don't understand file structures or keyboard hotkeys or can even distinguish a web browser from their file explorer.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's because people get mislead by the "agent", assuming there's something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just... Automated.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 10 points 3 days ago

This is because the advertising for LLMs present them as if they were intelligent.

LLMs are being promoted as a tool that can do anything even though the only thing they do well is output text that resembles human patterns. It is a hammer and they are pretending everything is a nail.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

I think it's worse: it's laziness. It's easier to ask a machine so it does the job for you. And since it looks mostly ok, they keep doing it.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

There are people who can't properly function without an llm.

And I feel sympathy towards all of them, except the ones who appeared on the Jimmy Fallon Show to promote helplessness as a lifestyle.