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My workplace has finally succumbed to the whole "we need to use AI to stay competitive" bullshit, and while my boss and my team aren't happy about it, he made it clear that execs would be looking for teams to have stories about how it's helped them work faster.
So, into the slop mines I went. Microsoft Copilot is the slop generator approved by our legal and infosec teams. I figured that I'd give it something easy, just pull me info on Exchange Online, Microsoft's corporate email system in Azure. Most of this stuff I'm already familiar with, so I'm just trying to see if it saves any time looking through Microsoft's documentation websites for specific details that they don't make obvious so you have to combine info from multiple pages.
I shit you not, every single response has had an innacuracy/issue. Many of them required follow up prompts because it gave me shit for Exchange Server instead of Online, despite how I set up the equivalent of the system prompt. I'm asking some pretty technical stuff, but it should absolutely be there in the training data.
Having a way to search the internet using natural language is useful, but that's not really what these things are. Natural language parsing is an amazing tool. I would love to see it stand on its own.
But the slop generation for responses falls flat, because it's trying to be everything for everyone. It doesn't know anything, so it can't reliably discern the difference between Exchange Online and Exchange Server (two different, but interoperable, systems with critical differences in functionality).
And all of that ignores that it's all built off widespread content theft, and the obscene resource usage, and that despite just how much shit is burning to make it work, the end result just isn't impressive.
TL;DR- It's not a threat to technology related "knowledge workers" either.
Similar story at my workplace, masturbatory AI bullshit coming from the top.
Unfortunately, my boss is in favor of it. Sucks because he's a great engineer (turned manager) in his own right who by all accounts had a really good head on his shoulders when it came to stupid, unnecessary bullshit and I really respect him, but for some reason that I cannot begin to fathom he thinks LLMs are actually useful for software development.
I can't really figure out what led him to such an obviously wrong conclusion. I guess it's really true that no one is immune to the bullshit psychological feedback loop induced by LLMs.
A very smart mentor of mine once said, "When it comes to a choice of doing what's right for your career and what's right for the business, people choose their career every time."
Once he said it, I started seeing it everywhere.
The thing that bothers me constantly is why the fuck those are different things.
Because usually the ones pushing the bullshit, have no clue how their own companies operate. They'll feed into anything that they're told is the next greatest thing without a single thought of how it fits into what they do.
At the end of the day, they're idiots with money.
Some of its self serving, but lots of its self preservation. My VP is 100% a "whatever get me the next salary jump guy, no matter how stupid or short sighted or wrong it is." That's a bad thing, and I think we can all understand why.
Now, he's clearly wrong, and in some cases, in ways I can prove. I could absolutely go to his boss or other execs and prove pretty thoroughly that what's he's doing is bad for the business. Not illegal, not breaking policy, but provably bad. What will also happen is that I will be fired, no matter how right I am, because me doing that threatens the hierarchy. So I don't, and focus instead on applying the minimum possible work and CYA to make sure I don't waste my time or get fired for not wasting my time.
In both cases, we are optimizing our careers over the health of the business. I would argue mine is less destructive and is based on survival rather than enrichment, but both acts fit the bill.