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AI industry needs to encourage job seekers to pick up AI skills (undefined), in the same way people master Excel to make themselves more employable.
Has anyone in the last 15 years willingly learned excel? It seems like one of those things you have to learn on the job as your boomer managers insist on using it.
Funny thing about "AI skills" that I've noticed so far is that they are actually just skills in the thing you're trying to get AI to help with. If you're good at that, you can often (though not always) get an effective result. Mostly because you can talk about it at a deeper level and catch mistakes the AI makes.
If you have no idea about the thing, it might look competent to you, but you just won't be catching the mistakes.
In that context, I would call them thought amplifiers and pretty effective at the whole "talking about something can help debug the problem, even if the other person doesn't contribute anything of value because you have to look at the problem differently to explain it and that different perspective might make the solution more visible", while also being able to contribute some valueable pieces.
Take away:
I will try to have a balanced take here:
The positives:
The negatives
Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already
menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage
This is one of the cases where AI is worse. LLMs will generate the tests based on how the code works and not how it is supposed to work. Granted lots of mediocre engineers also use the "freeze the results" method for meaningless test coverage, but at least human beings have ability to reflect on what the hell they are doing at some point.
Fuck this loser. We have enough issues to deal with on a daily basis. We don't need to subsidize your fear of having wasted ungodly amounts of money and becoming irrelevant.
That's a YOU problem, fool.
Dude, you never had "social permission" to do this in the first place, none of us asked for this shit. You're literally destroying the planet, the economy and our future for your personal gain.
You useless waste of space.
I already had enough reasons not to bother using it, he didn't need to give me another one!
Avoid spending trillions on a product nobody wants to pay for.
AI is the new 3dTV
Hey, I like my 3D TV. Every once in a while I manage to find a pirated video that's in 3D and it's pretty neat. And unlike the current avalanche of generative/LLM bullshit, I can turn the 3D off, and when I do it works just fine as a perfectly ordinary TV, and in no way does it nag me incessantly to turn it back on.
I got deepseek to run short roleplaying adventures that are surprisingly fun and engaging. It's an amped up choose your own adventur, so for this application, the future is bright.
Not a single other llm can do this in any way approaching acceptable.
And it still lies and makes shit up, but in a fantasy world, the can let it pass unless it is trying to rob me of experience lol.
When it can do long sessions and entire careers instead of detailed one offs it'll have found its niche for me. Right now, it's just a fun toy, prone to hallucinations.
I can't believe people use these things for code...
Right now, it’s just a fun toy, prone to hallucinations.
That's the thing though - with an LLM, it's all "hallucinations". They're just usually close to reality, and are presented with an authoritative, friendly voice.
(Or, in your case, they're usually close to the established game reality!)
Well you already lost that or rather never actually had that. You all pushed a broken and incomplete product you need to find a use not us...
Do something useful
What do you mean, that using ChatGPT for a recipe for eggs, sunny side up without any seasoning or toppings and burning up the electricity of a moderate household for a week with my query isn’t useful?
