Around the world, the enterprise AI revolution rockets forth at full speed! Get rid of those annoying and expensive employees! Replace them with the magical truth machine! And the huge push for Cla…
  • lurker@awful.systemsEnglish
    28·
    7 days ago

    One of the solutions proposed — I am not kidding — is “writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks.” It’s really funny imagining a software engineer being like “woah … like automating the boring stuff, you might say?”

    If I’m getting this right, they’re going to cut the cost of automating everything…by automating more things?

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Rather than use an LLM to churn through however many zillion tokens and parameters and do an ungodly number of matrix multiplications, maybe consider thinking about the problem and writing the relevant “if()then;” blocks yourself!

      You know, like a caveman (according to these same bosses a few months ago).