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Most ai stuff I use include a list of relevant sources next to the results. Do you not ever click in?
For me it’s critical to confirm, for example, the detail of that vendor api I want to use. However even then any hallucinations would mostly waste my time since if it doesn’t work it won’t get released
You’re telling me that people make actually business decisions without ever checking sources?
I see you've never worked in a medium to large business. Very often the average person will assume that someone else did that.
Also, what AI tools do you use?
CoPilot Chat is particularly popular right now due to Microsoft including it with Office 365 subscriptions, it having a ton of security controls built into the same places in Azure where you're already configuring shit, and terms about not training off of data input to it. Popular for sysadmins already drowning in Microsoft's bullshit who don't want to spend a lot of time on managing the slop generator(s).
Notably, it doesn't cite sources.
Most commonly I use an aggregator. It runs a chat window in a browser and you can choose from a variety of models or let it pick. While it’s not integrated with anything, it does really well for general purpose writing. Every result comes with citations and a few suggestions for next steps.
My company just gave up on copilot as useless, but we were explicitly using it for coding and it was just not effective. Sometimes “free” costs too much
Currently management is really pushing Cursor/Claude for coding, which I really hate. While Claude is much better at coding than copilot and does cite sources, cursor is way too aggressive at spraying arbitrary changes across the code base. I’ve had to do way too much damage control from junior devs blindly accepting when it makes arbitrary changes across the code base. For example one of my guys used it to generate unit tests, which it is good at, but they generated an order of magnitude too many tests of dubious value, that now need to run in every build and be maintained forever …. And in all that slop just arbitrarily introduced a new mocking tool. The intelligence part is pretty good but it needs to get much better at keeping the human in the loop. For example, I really like it for code reviews, it makes good catches and suggestions, but is horrible at presenting them to the developer for individual approval. Current effort is trying to use the agent.md to establish a sensible base for useful code reviews
Other than that, we’re spending a lot of time with mcp agents, which I’m still trying to decide on. All too often it’s just a more complex and dangerous way to do a text search, but it has a lot of potential to bring active data into the ai decision space