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I've recently had to begin dealing with this type of crap at my job in the past month, and it's infuriating.
Testers using LLMs to analyze logs, said LLMs cockily composing a multi-page 'bug report' stating the supposed cause, spewing a metric tonne of mostly irrelevant context and gaslighting with authoritative-sounding conclusions about the root cause of the issue; and since it sounds so damned confident in its verbose hallucinations, I have to waste precious time explaining to the test team and my manager why the report is mostly or entirely wrong.
Goddamn, I am so ready to retire. Let these "dark factory" advocates bury themselves in their models' slop. There will be a reckoning someday for this I swear; and if, someday, a company comes to me to clean up the mess "AI" has wrought, I will demand 3-4x my regular salary to clean it up, or, if I am financially content in retirement, I will simply tell them to go fuck themselves and lay in the bed they have made.
I'm with you, but so so far away from retiring.
Silver lining is that the company refuses to pay for more than included GitHub copilot tokens. They are currently in denial and saying folks can just use the cheap models to build management's dream of "native agentic workflows", but I fully expect them to have to face the reality that people will get fancy tab completion and the occasional prompt and that's it. I can deal with that volume.
But still after each model release I go to use it and save examples of it falling on its face. Because each time a new model launches management is convinced that the llms don't make mistakes anymore. If they just said it is getting better that would be one thing, but they are always convinced that new LLM was when all the issues were fixed.
Working on open source has been tougher, since other people have blown budget on making harder to understand bug reports and pull requests.
My company loves having people shooting out vast amounts of PRs to other teams with surface level fixes to things we’ve been working on for months. You can tell none of them have been tested and only like 50% of them work. It’s infuriating.
Wouldn't that be oh so satisfying. 🤤