mhoyeFeb 28
What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.
Show threadarclightFeb 28

@mhoye But then we'd have more senior employees who'd know what they were worth and expected to be compensated accordingly and when we didn't, they'd leave to work for a competitor instead of being laid off as junior staff. Why should we train our competitors' new hires?

I honestly can't tell if I'm being cynical and sarcastic or if this is actually what they teach people in Business school.

Show threadmhoyeFeb 28
@arclight good news! If you’re using the chatbots you’re already training your competition, you just don’t know it.
Show threadShae ErissonFeb 28
@mhoye @arclight This seems obviously true. I don't understand how companies can possibly allow their "secret sauce" to be part of the training inputs for their competition. I predict a return to trade secrets.
Show threadPozorvlak

@shapr @mhoye @arclight I believe it goes "you pay us a shitload more money, we pinky-promise not to use your developers' chat sessions to train our models".

Though that makes the models *less* useful to your developers, because they don't learn any of the idiosyncrasies of your proprietary systems!

Feb 28 at 6:48pmWeb