Watching a speaker apologise for any quirks in the code they're using in their slides.
"It was generated by AI."
Resisted the temptation to raise my hand and say, "You know you're allowed to edit generated code before committing it?"
Don't use LLMs to increase the unmanaged technical debt in the world. Software is supposed to be soft; It's not written in stone.
@kevlin Unless this was a talk about AI generating "quirky" code, that's wildly disrespectful to an audience.
What's next? "Sorry about this presentation, I didn't bother to prepare and don't really know what I'm talking about"?
Unfortunately, there is *entirely too much truth* to that!
I was working with *Management Consultants* recently, and they are 100% absolutely into using LLMs to generate their pointless PowerPoint presentations. It's all slop. But that seems to be the mainstay of top management tiers!
@kevlin the "AI helpz me codez fartser" people drive me crazy because it implies the problem is the world doesn't have enough code.
its never about quality. just quantity
i think of the end of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac when he goes to hell and is surprised how its just a giant seemingly empty city and the one person around tells him "oh yea the people in hell just keep building cities but they don't live in them"
So... you're presenting something you didn't do, you don't understand, and you can't reproduce. Why exactly are you here?
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