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My boss, the VP of Product, went on a spree about GenAI these past few months. We've been working on regular prediction and optimization things, but when ChatGPT went nuts, everything was GenAI. He was reading generative AI into RFPs and proposals that didn't even mention generative AI.

I tried talking to him that it's still garbage in and garbage out. If the solution was never there to train on, LLMs aren't going to make them out of thin air. There's also the "language" part of LLMs, that he didn't get.

We get pulled into a workshop with Amazon, who also wouldn't give us free resources unless it had a GenAI angle. After all this effort, you know what we made?

A fucking chat bot.

A fucking chat bot, that's also near useless, because our customers are highly driven and only interested in mathematical predictions. Turns out, you have to actually solve the hard math problems first with many examples, before GenAI can even take a terrible attempt at it.