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[โ€“] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think LLMs are also just genuinely not as universally useful as expected. Everyone thinks it can automate every job except their own not because everyone thinks their job is special but because they know all the intricate parts of that job that LLMs are still really bad at.

For instance AI could totally do my job at a surface level but it quickly devolves into deal breaking caveats which I am lumping into very broad categories to save time:

  • Output would look good (great even) but not actually be useable in most applications
  • Output cannot even begin to be optimized in the same way humans can optimize it
  • It would take more effort for to fix these than to just do the whole thing on my own to begin with
[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Case in point for me. AI cannot write documentation for new technical procedures because by definition they are new procedures. The information is not in its knowledge base, because I haven't written it yet.