We are a major sized user cohort and using social platforms is just not worth the energy is my feeping also. Granted not family tradeoff in ky case, just I don't have free time to waste.
This reminds me of when some government org leaked social security numbers in client-rendered html comments (or something similar) and people who discovered this were called hackers for using browser dev tools
I have done general process automation work (usually designing new web-based tools) for 20 years now. The underlying idea has always applied, even before AI: if your process is ill-defined and/or nonsensical, trying to "automate" it isn't going to work out.
I have seen a smattering of instances along the way where the act of defining requirements forced companies to define processes better. Usually, though, companies are unwilling to do this and instead will insist on adding flexibility to the automation tooling, to the point where the tool is of no help.
I think this is what I’m
running into. Other teams want my team to make tooling to simplify some data processing workflow. Nice UIs and such. But they can’t and generally won’t show me the written-down process for how it’s actually done today. Or how they’re going to do it manually as they develop their side of things.
Which leads us to turning into a different team: we have to go figure out what the process engineering even is, which means becoming a bigger expert than they are at the process they want us to make tooling for.
At one point there was probably a notion that upselling better models would work, and I’m sure to some small extent it has. But to the general public the goodness of the model is too nuanced I’m guessing. And it’s not like OpenAI can offer a “bad” base model or it would be a reputation hit
> and you just dump it in your project with limited vetting
Well yes there’s your problem. But people have been doing this with random snippets found on the internet for a while now. The truth is that irresponsibles developers will produce irresponsible code, with or without LLMs
> The truth is that irresponsibles developers will produce irresponsible code, with or without LLMs
True. But the difference is the scale and ease of doing with code generators. With a few clicks you can add hundreds of lines of code which supposedly does the right thing. While in the past, you would get code snippets for a particular aspect of the problem that you are trying to solve. You still had to figure out how to add it to your code base and somehow make it “work”
Surely in any responsible development environment those hundreds of lines of code still have to be reviewed.
Or don't people do code review any more? I suppose one could outsource the code review to an AI, preferably not the one that wrote it though. But if you do that surely you will end up building systems that no one understands at all.
Agree. Any reasonable team should have code reviews in place, but an irresponsible coder would push the responsibility of code quality and correctness to code reviewers. They were doing it earlier too, but the scale and scope was much smaller.
Currently working on getting back into a fitness routine. I got into this habit of hacking on side projects in my very little spare time but I have realized taking care of my body will pay off far more than any project
20 minutes a day is all it takes. Don't even think about it - just do it. After a couple of weeks you'll wonder how in the world you ever lived without exercise -- trust me on this one :)
All the best - the best project to work on!
I recently tested a walking pad with a standing desk at my friends place - I was surprisingly productive being able to walk while using the computer. Will be investing in a standing desk and walking pad for my home office.
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