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by lillesvin 225 days ago
I've always seen AI as Brandolini's Law as a Service. I'm spending an unreasonable amount of time debunking false claims and crap research from colleagues who aren't experts in my field but suddenly feel like they need to give all those good ideas and solutions, that ChatGPT and friends gave them, to management. Then I suddenly have 2-4 people that demand to know why X, Y and Z are bad ideas and won't make our team more efficient or our security better.

It's very much like that article from Daniel Stenberg (curl developer): The I in LLM Stands for Intelligence: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-f...
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bryanlarsen 225 days ago
On the other hand, here's another post by Stenberg where he announced that he has landed 22 bugfixes for issues found by AI wielded by competent hands.

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997

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lillesvin 224 days ago
Sure, in competent hands. Problem is that most people don't seem to realize that in order to use AI for something, you have to be pretty good at that thing already.
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maplethorpe 225 days ago
> I'm spending an unreasonable amount of time debunking false claims and crap research from colleagues who aren't experts in my field

Same. It's become quite common now to have someone post "I asked ChatGPT and it said this" along with a completely nonsense solution. Like, not even something that's partially correct. Half of the time it's just a flat out lie.

Some of them will even try to implement their nonsense solution, and then I get a ticket to fix the problem they created.

I'm sure that person then goes on to tell their friends how ChatGPT gives them superpowers and has made them an expert over night.

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