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erAck 3d ago

@davidgerard
I much liked the last sentence "LLM-based AI agents are going to be a very stupid ongoing disaster even if they do ever work."

Peter McMahan 3d ago

@davidgerard where I work I've had colleagues who have private info from their email show up in unrelated Teams transcripts. Microsoft deliberately shares all your personal info with copilot--they consider this kind of leak a "feature"

Dan Sugalski 3d ago

@davidgerard the amount of enthusiastic idiocy involved with all these LLM business integrations is really astonishing, even for someone as cynical about the capabilities of upper management as I am.

Jeremy Kahn 3d ago

@wordshaper

It really is gobsmacking

If I or any other actual (white collar) worker, no matter how senior, were to suggest using a technology that so clearly *doesn't work* and is so *eye-wateringly expensive* we would be laughed at or summaily fired

Ed Zitron's phrase The Business Idiot seems more and more apt (tho I wish there were a less ableist term)

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Dan Sugalski 3d ago

@trochee @davidgerard frankly I am *very* glad to be eyeing retirement and will be bailing out before I’m forced to use this stuff. Its value is so hugely negative it boggles the mind.

@wordshaper @trochee @davidgerard I still naively hope it will fall apart/into obscurity within the next few years. If not... well, interesting times ahead.

Paul Walker 2d ago

@ozzelot @wordshaper @trochee @davidgerard Not sure I’m going to get to retirement before this falls apart. If not, I’m banking on the “making money fixing the mess” approach.

@arafel
A fine approach if you can take it. I'm banking on the "getting into an entirely different line of work somehow and laugh at mainstream IT from a distance" approach. (Still not sure what that line will be.)
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Paul Walker 2d ago

@ozzelot @wordshaper @trochee @davidgerard That's also on the table. I'm still in the "watching with quiet horror as people apparently lose their minds" stage.

Everyday Freethought 2d ago

@ozzelot @wordshaper @trochee @davidgerard

Once corporate American gets a bad idea, it doesn't let it go. Look at offhsoring: A lot of them cannot understand it is just easier to talk to people on the same side of the planet, yet they still defend it.

@EFreethought
I am luckily not in America, but many of its (bad) ideas do like spreading into corporatism all around the world, and I've met AI evangelists already.
@wordshaper @trochee @davidgerard

@EFreethought
(On all levels of the ladder - from upper management to workers. There are also plenty of them among students and teachers, people who should value the potential of the human mind more than anyone.)
@wordshaper @trochee @davidgerard