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> Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.
by HumblyTossed 3y ago
> Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.
Gonna be similar (or worse) to what happens when Github goes down. It amazes me how quickly people have come to rely on "AI" to do their work for them.
- sitzkrieg 3y agoif github goes down you cannot merge prs etc, literally blocking "work" so this is a stretch
- Smaug123 3y agoNot really true - Git is distributed, after all. During an outage once I just hosted my copy of a certain Git repo somewhere. You can always push the history back up to the golden copy when GitHub comes back.
- sitzkrieg 3y agoi am not talking about git, i am talking about github. lets say i need to merge a PR in GH because use gha pipelines or what have you to deploy a prod fix. this would become severely blocked. where as if openai goes down i can no longer use ai to generate a lame cover letter or whatever i was avoiding actually doing anyway, thats all
- Smaug123 3y agoThis is the realm of standard recovery planning though, isn't it? Like, your processes should be able to handle this, because it's routine: GitHub goes down at least once per month for long enough for them to declare an incident, per https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://www.githubstatus.com/history . E.g. one should think carefully before depriving onself of the break-glass ability to do manually what those pipelines do automatically.
- sitzkrieg 3y agoyes, we do have break glass procedures. i guess my pedantic point is GH itself is central to many organizations, detached from git itself of course. I can only hope the same is NOT true for OpenAI but maybe there are novel workflows. just to be clear i do not like github lol
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