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I start to really really hate ChatGPT/LLMs. It went from "hey that's cool" to "wait people are actually relying on this" very quickly

mglz 3y ago
Hype and "good enough" override critical thinking :(
globular-toast 3y ago
Some people will always take things too far. This is part of a larger pattern I observe where people become fixated on solutions and forget (or never even knew) about the problem. If you're working on something it's worth asking yourself every day: what is the problem I'm working on? Does this problem actually exist? Am I sure I'm working on a problem, or am I working on a solution?
- kaoD 3y ago
  > This is part of a larger pattern I observe where people become fixated on solutions and forget (or never even knew) about the problem. This is just the natural behavior of trying to ride the wave of any tech hype cycle. There are incentives (both monetary and status) for doing so. FOMO also plays a large part here. They know very well what they're doing and the tradeoffs of what they're doing. It's not a mistake, bias or hyperfixation.
- rchaud 3y ago
  > what is the problem I'm working on? Does this problem actually exist? This is a nice guys finish last situation. The investor capital goes towards "solutionizing", so that's what people chase. Nobody in their right mind thinks food delivery or e-scooter rental is a billion dollar idea for example, but money flows into it anyway.
r0ckarong 3y ago
Wait until you realize your government already used this to run some minor aspect of your life and they're looking for ways to make more people redundant.
- IncreasePosts 3y ago
  Why would the government want useless people?
  - inyourtenement 3y ago
    I think “make redundant” in this context means “fire”.
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lowmagnet 3y ago
in my company they keep talking about ai ai ai and I have to keep explaining to them that it is NOT approved by the FDA to let some bug-stupid bit of vectors calculate critical data.
appplication 3y ago
This is just the same lazy and dishonest people justifying their decisions as “efficient”. Shitty, misinformative GPT-written block text. Cheap, Chinese-made, low-QC products on Temu or Amazon. Spammy, low-information SEO-optimized results at the top of Google search. Barely functional code written by an offshore team several corporate entities removed from the end users of that code. Shell subsidiaries to assemble Boeing planes to shift the responsibility of QC from the actual manufacturer. It’s all the different angles of the same underbelly. Our favorite flavor of capitalism rewards the lowest denominator drivel, and perpetually validates that quantity over quality is a profitable and inevitably attractive trade off at sufficient scale.

mglz 3y ago

Hype and "good enough" override critical thinking :(

globular-toast 3y ago

Some people will always take things too far. This is part of a larger pattern I observe where people become fixated on solutions and forget (or never even knew) about the problem. If you're working on something it's worth asking yourself every day: what is the problem I'm working on? Does this problem actually exist? Am I sure I'm working on a problem, or am I working on a solution?

kaoD 3y ago
> This is part of a larger pattern I observe where people become fixated on solutions and forget (or never even knew) about the problem. This is just the natural behavior of trying to ride the wave of any tech hype cycle. There are incentives (both monetary and status) for doing so. FOMO also plays a large part here. They know very well what they're doing and the tradeoffs of what they're doing. It's not a mistake, bias or hyperfixation.
rchaud 3y ago
> what is the problem I'm working on? Does this problem actually exist? This is a nice guys finish last situation. The investor capital goes towards "solutionizing", so that's what people chase. Nobody in their right mind thinks food delivery or e-scooter rental is a billion dollar idea for example, but money flows into it anyway.

r0ckarong 3y ago

Wait until you realize your government already used this to run some minor aspect of your life and they're looking for ways to make more people redundant.

IncreasePosts 3y ago
Why would the government want useless people?
- inyourtenement 3y ago
  I think “make redundant” in this context means “fire”.

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lowmagnet 3y ago

in my company they keep talking about ai ai ai and I have to keep explaining to them that it is NOT approved by the FDA to let some bug-stupid bit of vectors calculate critical data.

appplication 3y ago

This is just the same lazy and dishonest people justifying their decisions as “efficient”. Shitty, misinformative GPT-written block text. Cheap, Chinese-made, low-QC products on Temu or Amazon. Spammy, low-information SEO-optimized results at the top of Google search. Barely functional code written by an offshore team several corporate entities removed from the end users of that code. Shell subsidiaries to assemble Boeing planes to shift the responsibility of QC from the actual manufacturer. It’s all the different angles of the same underbelly. Our favorite flavor of capitalism rewards the lowest denominator drivel, and perpetually validates that quantity over quality is a profitable and inevitably attractive trade off at sufficient scale.