LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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ATTN: If you're coming into this thread to say, "The output of AI is bad because your prompts suck," I'm just proud that you managed to figure out how to use the internet at all. Good job, you!
remember remember, eternal september
(not that I much agree with the classist overtones of the original, but fuck me does it come to mind often)
I had GPT 3.5 break down 6x 45-minute verbatim interviews into bulleted summaries and it did great. I even asked it to anonymize people’s names and it did that too. I did re-read the summaries to make sure no duplicate info or hallucinations existed and it only needed a couple of corrections.
Beats manually summarizing that info myself.
Maybe their prompt sucks?
“Are you sure you’re holding it correctly?”
christ, every damn time
That is how tools tend to work, yes.
"tools" doesn't mean "good"
good tools are designed well enough so it's clear how they are used, held, or what-fucking-ever.
fuck these simpleton takes are a pain in the arse. They're always pushed by these idiots that have based their whole world view on fortune cookie aphorisms
we find they tend to post here, though not for long
it makes me feel fucking ancient to find that this dipshit didn't seem to get the remark, and it wasn't even that long ago
Jobs is Tech Jesus, but Antennagate is only recorded in one of the apocryphal books
Said like a person who wouldn't be able to correctly hold a hammer on first try
I got AcausalRobotGPT to summarise your post and it said "I'm not saying it's always programming.dev, but"
I also use it for that pretty often. I always double check and usually it's pretty good. Once in a great while it turns the summary into a complete shitshow but I always catch it on a reread, ask a second time, and it fixes things up. My biggest problem is that I'm dragged into too many useless meetings every week and this saves a ton of time over rereading entire transcripts and doing a poor job of summarizing because I have real work to get back to.
I also use it as a rubber duck. It works pretty well if you tell it what it's doing and tell it to ask questions.
Isn't the whole point of rubber duck debugging that the method works when talking to a literal rubber duck?
what if your rubber duck released just an entire fuckton of CO2 into the environment constantly, even when you weren’t talking to it? surely that means it’s better
Ok? I don't have another human available to skim a shitload of documents for me to find answers I need and I don't have time to do ot myself. AI is my best option.
So long as you don't care about whether they're the right or relevant answers, you do you, I guess. Did you use AI to read the linked post too?
Yep. Go ahead and ignore all the cases where it's getting answers correct and actually helping. We're all just hallucinating, it's in no way my lived experience. Your reality is the prime reality and we're the NPC's.
And I wish only my good grades counted in school too.
Go ahead and ignore all the cases where it’s getting answers correct
- Sir, half of the patients are dead!
- Ye sure, just ignore the half that survived then!
Only it's even worse because without redoing all the work yourself you can't even tell which ones are dead or alive.
sir has failed to achieve the reading comprehension level for this sub
I didn't read the post at all because its premise is irrelevant to my situation. If I had another human to read documentation for me I would do that. I don't so the next best thing is AI. I have to double check its findings but it gets me 95% of the way there and saves hours of work. It's a useful tool.
This is hall of fame shit right here, someone should study the way you use the internet sir
I didn't read the post at all
rather refreshing to have someone come out and just say it. thank you for the chuckle
we really do need “my source is that I made it the fuck up” for people who aggressively don’t want to read any of the text they’re allegedly commenting on
everyone, we have a new worst poster
absolutely superb posting, thank you
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