Urgh. What's the fucking point of anything if we don't try to be nice to eachother along the way
Yea, and at the same time there seems to be plenty of “infrastructure” in support of a unplanned pool of nonsense environment that it’s often not wrong to presume it is a given and so embrace LLMs as a seeming lesser evil.
@jonny it’s amazing how “I immediately want to slap this guy around the face” is no longer a valid heuristic.
Like, generally speaking, this heuristic evolved to weed out people working in bad faith.
And now there’s competitions to see who can become the most slappable.
And we’re supposed to just sit here and take it.
(Disclaimer: using this as a metaphor, I do not condone actually slapping people, no matter how much they deserve it)
I used the internal genAI tool because we are all asked to use it (not yet, told). I wanted to see if the internal hype was real.
I was manually translating Splunk queries to Sentinel One queries.
I asked the chatbot to do one.
The field names were wrong, like it was just making them up, and it left the logical operators all in upper case, which is invalid in S1. It was immediately evident they were non-functional.
I added prompts on how to fix the problems.
After I fixed them all, I had a functional query.
The only thing useful it added was replacing the Splunk wildcard searches with S1 contains which I would have figured out eventually as part of optimization if I did it myself.
The amount of effort it took just to get syntactically correct queries would have been better spent doing the reading so I could learn it. Unfortunately, S1 documentation on their query language is either shit or I just can't find it.
Eventually, I want to automate some of this using our automation platform and the relevant APIs so I thought, naïvely, the training data might have enough sample data to be helpful.
It poisoned my thinking. Instead of learning how to do the thing, my mind keeps slipping back into wondering how to optimize having a fake conversation with a plagiarism regurgitation engine.
They are the death of creativity.
@jonny watching your arc from genuine and good-faith "idk maybe?" To fully vehement "fuck this" has been a great triangulation
Now that I'm a bureaucrat and don't touch code or data it's hard to get a first-hand sense of how annoying this is to deal with
@jonny
funni-.. er.. creepiest part is they call us "bunch a tedious bastards" all the while.. cf. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722 + in the thread
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edit: they call "us" not "you" tedious etc..