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"The product [GPT4] has reshaped the tech industry"
No, it hasn't. It has reshaped what credulous muppets spend their time focusing on. Most of the tech industry is still writing buggy C and Java while failing to patch virtual machines running end-of-life versions of Windows.
Most of the tech industry is engaged in thoroughly boring things, just like every other industry.
Dec 6, 2023 at 9:38pmWeb
Show threadDieuDec 6, 2023
@daedalus In don't think it's boring. It's quite exciting in a very distressing way.
Show threadDieuDec 6, 2023
@daedalus I even believe that the avoidance of really boring stuff is a root cause for the abysmal state the world is in.
Show threadJPDec 6, 2023
@hllizi young men are not socialised to do the dishes and clean stuff as much as they should be. Maintenance is important.
Show threadDieuDec 6, 2023
@daedalus 💯, unfortunately
Show threadPēteris KriơjānisDec 6, 2023
@daedalus every time people are like "ohh you programmers must be rocking in your boots" and I am like what you are even talking about.
Show threadFluke McHappenstance Dec 7, 2023
@daedalus become ungovernable; return to forth
Show threadGadfly (-booq-)Dec 7, 2023
@daedalus Credulous muppets with too much budget they have too much solitary control over have been a backbone of the tech industry for decades.
Show threadPhil Stevens Dec 7, 2023
@daedalus You left out replacing dodgy Cat-5 patch cables when someone notices that a link light goes out when it gets bumped.
Show threadjosh buermannDec 7, 2023

@daedalus

"AI" has reshaped the silicon valley tech press hype machine by replacing "blockchain" with another shell game to talk about while all the technical innovation to address climate change or pretty much any real problem is done somewhere else.

Show threadRose, Skaven Mars PriestessDec 7, 2023

@daedalus

College dream: I'm gonna be writing code to do Tony Stark things.

Midlife reality:
Writing? code to try and get LabVIEW to translate RS232 from a transducer on a comp system two OS versions behind while trying to understand prior engineers one word notes on things.

Show threadCatherine BerryDec 7, 2023

@daedalus

In my corner of big tech, us ordinary software engineers are mostly rolling our eyes and becoming increasingly frustrated as VPs and Directors pour resources into spicy autocomplete while starving useful projects.

Show threadRiley S. FaelanDec 7, 2023
@daedalus But credulous muppets control the tech industry, so reshaping the muppets reshapes the industry.
Show threadOliver SchönrockDec 7, 2023

@daedalus

I prefer to run my unpatched EOL OSes on bare metal..

But otherwise .. yeah, basically.

and yeah.. not boring actually.

Show threadBynkiiDec 7, 2023
@daedalus @angry_drunk my current biggest project is wading through hundreds of old database installs to see if they’re still needed.
Show threadDarby LinesDec 7, 2023
@bynkii @daedalus The wild thing about my job and AI is that my captioning/translation system—which is only possible for us do to the Whisper API is received with a huge "meh”; but my boss writes a 5 paragraph prompt to pull urls from a content partner's website—which I could have done in a few lines of Python—and everybody jizzes themselves.
Show threadBynkiiDec 7, 2023
@angry_drunk @daedalus of course it is.
Show threadScott BurtonDec 7, 2023
@daedalus one thing nobody on the outside understands about labor-cost-saving automations is that they almost never work without dedicated, consistent intervention and maintenance by the human workers they purport to replace.
Show threadTimo GeuschDec 7, 2023
@daedalus @pikesley Hear, hear.
Show threadBoris NikitashovDec 9, 2023
@daedalus that’s exactly why things that aren’t boring to most of people matter a lot
Show threadburneJan 27, 2024

@daedalus I threw a bunch of coins into the machine, got access to chatGPT 4 and asked it to write me a playbook that would restore primary and replicant roles (what we used to call master and slave, for the ignorant..) I got a playbook that dumped both nodes (!), copied files between nodes and restored both nodes from their dumps, but the two difficult and crucial steps were missing. (Data source -> replicant and resume replication from the right GTID or moment in time..)

Useless waste of time