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I literally just got really good at NFTs and the metaverse and now there’s new future skills I need to learn?

I had one use case that helped me. Once. It was to reset settings in a cpap. And it was less “look at how great AI is” and more an indictment on our healthcare system and overworked people not helping patients.

“If you’re not using AI for your day-to-day tasks, then you need to do more training and are simply not dedicated enough! Remember - the issue is definitely you”.

So, we should pay you to read the obvious?

Was that Lotus 1...2...3?

So this "spreadsheet" thing. What should I do with it? We have no idea but we just spent a billion dollars and had to lay off 20% of the company to afford it so you need to figure that out for yourself Totally imaginary conversation if Excel was sold like Copilot.

so basically prompt engineering is just cargo cult behavior?

I like to believe i spend a good amount of time learning a lot of skills for fun and work, every prompt engineering course seems to be extremely simple to learn. its trial and error + asking for tips. I think its better to learn skills without ai, and then use it, then spend time "learning" to us ai

When they say “you’ll need AI skills in the future” what they mean is “we’re outsourcing to y’all to find a viable use case for this shit because we’re out of ideas.”

Even open-ended digital interfaces have input validation + confirmation of errors. But LLMs have anti-UI. Users are encouraged to ask everything, including what LLMs can’t do, then must validate. Every part of this UX offloads work on to the user, engineers, annotators to prop up the mind illusion.

FWIW, ChatGPT agrees with you. Possibly because it's been coded to agree with everything.

just wanna say thank you for always using alt text!!

I cringe when by skills, what we mean is edit someone else's code (AI this time) since most devs are worse editors than they are creators. Heavily leaning on test scaffolding will help, assuming they are good at it. Too often it's gonna streamline single positive result devs to pumping junk.

So maybe the better question isn’t “how do I use <whatever> AI tool?” Maybe it’s “how can I effectively incorporate AI into my overall process?”

I use Resharper AI Assistant with Visual Studio and it really does increase my productivity substantially. You have to double check everything it does, though, because it has a propensity for just making stuff up.

Tired: Programming Computers Wired: Negotiating with Computers Expired: Understanding how computers and software work

Training org I work for has been looking at possibly delivering a Diploma in Artificial Intelligence, that's now a registered accredited course. Not just a single unit of competency on using the tools for business, but a whole diploma on top of your business qualification

All of the former “app idea guys” and “SEO thought leaders” are now “prompt engineers”

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I have discovered exactly one use case for LLMs in my job: feed in a long transcript of a recorded call, and use the LLM as essentially a search engine that can search by topic, rather than keyword. It turns 16 hour tasks into…15.5 hour tasks.

So, uh, my company makes AI. And is pushing AI to back office. So back office asked for training. And company said we don't know how to apply AI in the office.

Maybe AI is the perfect bullshit technology for bullshit jobs (as described by David Graeber)? i.e. I've heard some academic say it's useful for doing formulaic paperwork that is performative rather than purposeful i.e. University management demands for bullshit filed and forgotten audit trails.

Watch out! You are going to get out-competed by a 10x AI industry critic any day now.

AI isnt, it is nothing more than a programmed response to query, with better databases than previous ones. I have seen better "ai" in video games where it learns your patterns and accounts for them