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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit MachineEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    This has been my experience as well, only the company I work for has mandated that we must use AI tools everyday (regardless of whether we want/need them) and is actively tracking our usage to make sure we comply.

    My productivity has plummeted. The tool we use (Cursor) requires so much hand-holding that it’s like having a student dev with me at all times… only a real student would actually absorb information and learn over time, unlike this glorified Markov Chain. If I had a human junior dev, they could be a productive and semi-competent coder in 6 months. But 6 months from now, the LLM is still going to be making all of the same mistakes it is now.

    It’s gotten to the point where I ask the LLM to solve a problem for me just so that I can hit the required usage metrics, but completely ignore its output. And it makes me die a little bit inside every time I consider how much water/energy I’m wasting for literally zero benefit.

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” English
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    13 days ago

    This has sadly been the norm in the tech industry for at least a decade now. The whole eco-system had become so accustomed to quick injections of investment cash, that products/businesses no longer grow organically but instead hit the scene in one huge developing and marketing blitz.

    Consider companies like Uber or AirBnB. Their goal was never to make a safe, stable, or even legal product. Their goal was always to be first. Command the largest user base possible in the shortest time possible, then worry about all the details later. Both of those products have had disastrous effects on existing businesses and communities while operating in anti-competetive ways and flaunting existing laws, but so what? They’re popular! Tens of millions of people already use them, and by the time government regulation catches up with that they’re doing it’s already too late. What politician would be brave enough to try and ban a company like Uber? What regulator still has enough power to reign in a company the size of AirBnB?

    OpenAI is playing the same game. They don’t care if their product is safe — hell, they don’t even really care if it’s useful, or profitable. They just want to be ubiquitous, because once they achieve that, the rest doesn’t matter.