Armstrong was shocked at the thought. “I went rogue,” he said, and posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel. “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”
At the meeting, some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation, Armstrong said.
“I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn’t [have a good reason]. And they got fired.”
Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people in the company who “didn’t like it.”
He gave them one week? So he has poor planning skills, he’s impatient with terrible impulse control, he’s unable to motivate people (probably because they know he’s an intolerable ass) and his big idea is “do what everyone else is doing, even if you don’t know why.” Sounds like CEO is the only job he can do. What a fool.
Funnily enough AI can probably do his job far better
You’re probably right. LLMs specialize in spouting bullshit, which seems to be the main requirement for a CEO too.
CEO is the #1 job that should be replaced by AI.
Meetings on a Saturday? Intolerable ass is correct.
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Isn’t modular code used to handle repetitive mundane bits?
I mean having an LLM is helpful for writing left/right code, but I would quit if that was a decent portion of my job.
And most devs I know use it everyday, so… 🤷
Especially for repetitive mundane code, like they said. It’s much faster to check code for correctness than it is to write it in the first place.
“I need to restructure this directory tree. If a file has “index” in the name, then it has to go in a parallel directory structure starting at “/home/repos/project/indexes/” and remove the word “index” from the name. Use the same child folders as the original.”
There, I just finished a custom Python script to accomplish that. Can I do it myself? Yes. Can I do it in 30 seconds? No. Why would I waste my time writing such a mundane script for a one-off thing? And it can do so much more.
It’s much faster to check code for correctness than it is to write it in the first place.
In certain circumstances sure, but at any level of complexity, not so much.
At some point it becomes less about code correctness and more about logical correctness, which requires contextual domain understanding.
Want to churn out directory changing python scripts, go nuts.
Want to add business logic that isn’t a single discrete change to an existing system, less likely.
For small things is works OK, it’s less useful the more complex the task.
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Perhaps for the the style or complexity of the code you (and i) are seeing on a regular basis this is true.
I find, for low logical complexity code, it’s less about the difficulty of reading it and more about the speed.
I can read significantly quicker than i can type and if the code isn’t something i need additional time to reason about then spotting issue with existing code can be quicker than me writing the same code out.
Boilerplate code is a good example of this.
Though, as i said, I’ve found the point at which that loses it’s reliable usefulness is relatively low in the complexity scale.
The specific issue i have with people pushing LLM’s as a panacea for boilerplate code is that it’s not declarative and is prone to reasonable looking hallucinations , given enough space.
Even boilerplate in large enough amount can be subject to eccentricities of LLM imagination.
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It was just a contrived example for the purpose of the comment, and I admit it wasn’t a good one.
How about turning a directory tree of dozens of .url files (Windows web shortcut files) into an HTML file? Directory names as section headings, and nested bulleted lists of hrefs using the .url file names as the link text, minus the “.url”. Can you do that on the CLI? Sure, but it would be a hell of a hack. It would be a disgusting blob of awk code, probably. You’re much better off writing it in something like Python.
It’s not hard stuff. It’s simple directory recursion, string building, and file writing. It’s just so mind-numbingly boring to write, and it takes time. Instead, Copilot made that for me in 10 seconds. As fast as I could articulate the need in text. No debugging needed. Worked the first time. All I had to ask for in a second pass was more indenting of each nested list, and I could have just added that myself.
I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM. And your prejudice is showing by assuming I had to even debug it, or that the code was slop. The code looked great. It was perfect Python.
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried. Because it just makes you sound bigoted, using words like “slop” and making assumptions about the quality of the output while never having tried it yourself. Prejudice is never a good thing.
I’ve written a fair amount of advanced command line stuff using grep and sed and whatever else. Anything non-trivial takes just as much debugging as Python code, and it’s harder to read and debug. And when it’s boring, one-off code, why would you even want to do it yourself?
I’ll never understand the LLM hate on lemmy. Feel free to hate on capitalism, or on using fossil fuels to power LLMs, or on having no social safety net when LLMs displace jobs, or any number of other things, but to be prejudiced and assume it’s always slop when you’ve never even tried it just makes no sense to me. (Maybe you have, but I’m certain most of the haters haven’t.) It’s a revolutionary tool in its infancy, and it’s already very useful on certain tasks.
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It’s a revolutionary tool in its infancy, and it’s already very useful on certain tasks.
That’s a bold and premature statement IMO, how many AI winters have there been before this one ?
I’m not even saying you’re wrong, but to assert it with such confidence sounds like crypto bro-nanigans.
i would argue that it’s evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but that’s subjective i suppose.
I’ll never understand the LLM hate on lemmy.
Speaking for me personally i don’t hate LLM’s, i dislike the confidence with which they are being pushed and the lack of acknowledgement of their very real and IMO very important limitations.
You get statements like
“And most devs I know use it everyday”
Without context, and that feeds into the general propaganda feel of the sentiment, because people who don’t actually use them or don’t understand the implied context hear “LLM’s can do all the things, all the professional devs are using it all day”.
I understand it’s not on you to police peoples impressions, but trying to add actual context to those statements isn’t hate, it’s prudence.
Then again, that’s subjective too.
Now re-explain this 5 more times before it shits out something remotely close to what you’re asking it to do.
That hasn’t been my experience for something this simple. Not at all. I vibe coded a 75 line Python script the other day and it worked perfectly the first try.
everyday
“every day”, if you mean ‘daily’.
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Crypto is full of scammers that are not allowed to trade securities because of criminal activities.
All crypto"currencies" are greed-inducing society-eroding pyramid schemes.
Get out this Crypto Cult Science.
✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.
What’s with the kraken dude?
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Thanks!
I’m guessing he only wants yes-men
Fuck all cryptobros. With a saguaro.
a chollo cactus.
Fucking wish . com lex luther
Eyooooo!
Coinbase has always been the laughingstock. They’re not a real exchange.
Reminder that Coinbase is the company securing the assets of the majority of government sanctioned/registered crypto ETFs. If you are invested or thinking about being invested in cryptocurrency, but have doubts about the ability of Coinbase to do things in a secure, competent way, consider self custody instead of trusting them.
Nah, this is why I went with the Canadian etf. They use Gemini, and seem much more competent
That’s some A tier micro management
The dude looks like he’s unironically roleplaying his life as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
Is it to lash out at others for his alopecia?
this guy bald for the same reason caillou is
Punishment from God for his evil ways?
he sucks so much even his hair doesn’t want to hang out with him
Why is it so often a bald guy.
Let’s all drop everything. There’s something shiny and new hereabouts.
AI and crypto working together sounds redundant.
