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You just have to be a bit more specific. I have had success with AI writing code but I have to drive it. It’s a massive time saver though. I have also had succ
by dools 3y ago
You just have to be a bit more specific. I have had success with AI writing code but I have to drive it. It’s a massive time saver though.
I have also had success with classification tasks, like look at this email and then look at this list of topics, and pick which topic this email relates to, or “other” if you can’t see an obvious choice.
But you can’t say “hey AI do this person’s job for me”.
- krapp 3y ago>But you can’t say “hey AI do this person’s job for me”. Unfortunately, that's exactly what businesses want to accomplish.
- MattGaiser 3y agoIt is closer to a shovel vs hands rather than an automated excavator.
- svaha1728 3y agoAnd the gems you are trying to excavate might not even be in the training set.
- spamizbad 3y ago> But you can’t say “hey AI do this person’s job for me”. If AI needs to steered around by an expert to be effective that's going to limit its appeal.
- dools 3y agoWhy? I wrote a regex in 45 minutes the other day that would have taken me days to get right without AI. It’s an enormously underpriced production boost right now.
- spamizbad 3y agoTo me this a huge signal that a regex was not the correct approach and that AI just steered you directly into (or passed) Kernighan's Law.
- dools 3y agoNo, it’s a very specific regex for parsing a very finicky file format. It’s definitely the best tool for the job, although funnily enough ChatGPT couldn’t get it right in a single regex but Claude could. ChatGPT chickened out and kept giving me functions that looped through applying various filters and regexes.
- daymanstep 3y agoHow do you know that the AI got it right?
- dools 3y agoThe the code parses the files correctly.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoMaybe the LLM prevented an intervention where you were asked why the thing you were working on was taking days, surfacing the need for a better approach.
- dools 3y agoNope, about a year or so ago we had a similar problem with the same piece of code and instead of fixing it I said “that’ll take me a couple of days the get right” and the guy I was doing it for just went and manually fixed the file format which took him a few hours. This time when a similar thing happened I was able to fix it before he even had to ask how long it might take and the solution is more robust and able to handle several different formats now. It was a definite win.
- etempleton 3y agoI was thinking about this the other day. AI reminds me of your average to below average intern. They kind of get it right, but you have to spend time holding their hand and correcting their work. I don’t see AI replacing experienced professionals any time soon, but I do see it replacing the need for some entry level employees soon.
- mnk47 3y agoYeah, I think we're just at an awkward point where you still have to do some prompting tricks to make it work as expected. Hopefully this all gets smoothed out soon and makes hacky solutions like "prompt engineering" less important.
- atmavatar 3y ago> You just have to be a bit more specific. I have had success with AI writing code but I have to drive it. "Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him."