[SV_BubbleTime]

Ok, fair critique.

EXCEPT…

What did you have for AI three years ago? Jack fucking shit is what.

Why is “wow that’s cool, I wonder what it’ll turn into” a forbidden phrase, but “there are clearly no experts on this topic but let me take a crack at it!!” important for everyone to comment on?

One word: Standby. Maybe that’s two words.

[advael]

With all due respect, "wow this is cool, I wonder what it'll turn into" is basically the mandatory baseline stance to take. I'm lucky that's where I'm still basically at, because anyone in a technical position who shows even mild reticence beyond that is likely to be unable to hold a job in the face of their bosses' frothing enthusiastic optimism about these technologies

[dns_snek]

Is it that bad out there? Yeah, I don't think I could last in a job that tries to force these tools into my workflow.

[bravetraveler]

Drive-by comment: it's not so bad, here. I work with a few peers who've proven to be evangelists with much stronger social skills. When the proposition comes up, I ask how my ass should be cleaned, too. Thankfully: the bosses haven't heard/don't care.

Varying degrees of 'force' at play; I'm lucky that nobody significant is minding my [absence of] LLM usage. Just some peers excited to do more for the same or, arguably, less reward. Remember: we're now all in an arms race. Some of us had a head start.

How crass I respond to the suggestion depends on their delivery/relevance in my process/product, of course. May be placated like a child with a new toy... or the gross question to, hopefully, express the suggestion isn't wanted, needed, or welcome.

Faced with a real mandate, I'd feed it garbage while looking for new work. Willing to make the bet I can beat enough machines while people are still involved at all.

[advael]

You can get pretty far by mostly just claiming to use it "when it makes sense" but you do meet people who are very pushy about it. Hoping that calms down as knowledge of the downsides becomes more widespread

[j2kun]

Careful there, ChatGPT was initially released November 30, 2022, which was just about 3 years ago, and there were coding assistants before that.

If you find yourself saying the same thing every year and adding 1 to the total...