Comment by burningChrome 12 hours ago
Most companies have no idea what exactly AI is or what it does.
My company just spend months on several AI initiatives. They created several power point presentations about how we can use AI to automate all of the teams repetitive tasks. Our senior leadership didn't even know that we've been doing automation for almost ten years now.
They think automation IS AI.
Automation with code = time consuming because you must build the instructions but will execute correctly basically 100% of the time once written
Automation with AI = less time consuming especially with elaborate rule sets, but it’s a probability model so by definition it will be wrong a percentage of the time
Do these people think that when they open a file on their computer there is literally some Susan walking down to some basement somewhere and retrieving a manilla folder with a ladder.
My coworker is supposed to translate React webpage with 100% text and links into html and put in the WYSIWYG editor of the CMS. These are legal pages.
Q: What did he do to solve the problem?
A: pasted the raw react code and asked an Llm to translate it to html.
The Llm did a terrible job. For example, it converted unordered lists to paragraphs with break tags. When I asked why he didn’t just copy the rendered output from the browser, he didn’t know how to do that.
When he was shown how to do that, he said it would be too much work because the rendered output still contained css tags. So he would have to get the Llm to remove the tags for him.
This is an engineer who’s been developing software for at least 10 years, well before Llms even existed. Yet he cannot figure out how to do a simple regex find + replace. He has no clue that he’s wasted a huge amount of time fiddling with Llms.
Everyone thinks AI is a cheat code to their employment video game and I’m looking for a new job now because I’m surrounded by the downfall of humanity.
Just like Wi-Fi in Internet, and image editing is Photoshop, definitions get very lost and tangled. Couldn't agree with you more