Arne JørgensenDec 24, 2024
Lukas
So GitHub now has this Copilot textbox at the top of their dashboard and one of the example prompts is "Find issues assigned to me" and my brother in christ that's a problem that you should be able to solve with a reasonably trivial search query rather than an LLM for fuck's sake
Dec 23, 2024 at 7:14pmWeb
Show threadLukasDec 23, 2024

Our tendency to take any new hammer and forcibly try to make every previously solved problem a new nail to solve even harder now but less efficient is just... infuriating?

I really hope they at least just use Copilot as natural language preprocessor for their search functionality, but then again, GitHub's search has been frustratingly unhelpful in the past for me but that's a different can of worms.

Show threadKrisBuytaertDec 24, 2024
@jemsu our industry has been running in this circle for ages #k8s , #prometheus lots of things that were solved and yes it's infuriating and depressing #devoops
Show threadKevin P. FlemingDec 24, 2024
@jemsu It's "blockchain as database" all over again.
Show threadPaul MartinDec 24, 2024
@[email protected] @[email protected] It's more, "I have a hammer. Every problem is now a nail."
Show threadmathewDec 25, 2024
@jemsu @nowster @kevin When you have an LLM hammer, every problem is a screw.
Show threadPaul MartinDec 25, 2024
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] It's a... It's a... small off duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden!
Show threadBjørn NordbøDec 24, 2024

@jemsu Why bother writing a query for it when you can just ask Copilot?

This is no different from googling "facebook" instead of typing "facebook.com".

Show threadLukasDec 24, 2024
@bnordbo it takes orders of magnitude more processing power and bandwidth than just “guess that the user wants a .com there based on that being a close match in search history”
Show threadBjørn NordbøDec 24, 2024
@jemsu Sure, but a search also takes orders of magnitude more power than a simple DNS query. I think the cases are comparable, and most of us are going to choose the path of least resistance.
Show threadMark DominusDec 24, 2024
@jemsu @fanf
"We couldn't think of any use for this, but the product manager made us put it here anyway."
Show threadPhilippa CowderoyDec 24, 2024
@jemsu ...has anybody asked one how to tell your arse from your elbow with both hands and a map lately?
Show threadElias ProbstDec 24, 2024
@jemsu why do something efficiently in SQL when you could waste a million times more CPU cycles in the name of using AI?
Show threadTheriacDec 25, 2024
@jemsu
There was a thing a few decades back - "portal sites" where a company would endevour to funnel all web traffic through their list of (sponsored) links for the web, despite the fact people could just, you know, look on the web.
Show threadJima Dec 25, 2024
@jemsu @risottobias IMO, if that destination is more than three (ideally, two) clicks away from any page on the site, someone has failed at UX.