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minus-squarePushButton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoConsider yourself lucky. My boss doesn’t have any idea what a llm “ai” is, but he’s pushing us to use it, at every opportunity he can find. Forget about telling him it’s bullshitting code, that’s just a model that it’s guessing the next word… It’s magic for him. Once, he showed me how cool “prompting” was for something that he generated. It took him 10 minutes to “prompt” it, while doing it would have taken 5. “Yeah, but it’s getting better every year”. Living in the promise of a brighter future; I am still waiting for all the cancer cures and the flying cars…
Consider yourself lucky. My boss doesn’t have any idea what a llm “ai” is, but he’s pushing us to use it, at every opportunity he can find.
Forget about telling him it’s bullshitting code, that’s just a model that it’s guessing the next word… It’s magic for him.
Once, he showed me how cool “prompting” was for something that he generated. It took him 10 minutes to “prompt” it, while doing it would have taken 5.
“Yeah, but it’s getting better every year”.
Living in the promise of a brighter future; I am still waiting for all the cancer cures and the flying cars…