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I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

Isn't the entire purpose of copilot that it shouldn't need much in the way of training? I think the extent of it at my employer is "this is the one you use."

I've tried it a few times, the only thing it seems remotely good for is when your recollection of a source is too fuzzy to form a traditional search query around. "What's that book series I read in the early 2000s about kids who traveled to another world and the things they brought back from it just looked like junk." Kind of questions.

Dude, they flubbed this so damn hard by over reaching. A few years ago, when they mentioned there would be a button in word that you could use to make a slide deck of your word dock, I was so excited. The teams meeting part where it will summarize meetings is honestly fantastic in doing Roberts rules of order type stuff. My response was "I hate what this means in terms of privacy, but godamn that sounds useful".

In turning into an everything all or nothing they massively screwed up. I have a self hosted instance of llama-gpt that I use to solve the "blank page" problem that AI was actually great at.

I have a lot of issues with AI on principle, like a lot of folks. But it blows my mind how hard they screwed up delivery (and I don't just mean the startups, that's to be expected). There's plenty to be said about uber at a principle level, but it's still bloody convenient. The entire roll out of a AI-ecosystem reeks of this meme: "but we made plans!".

My company is all in on GitHub Copilot. They have very unrealistic expectations for how much it will increase productivity. I suspect they were sold on data from junior developers, who I think it helps the most. Anyways, now they are measuring how much engineers use it, so there is some amount of pressure to use it more often.

The training was a little worrisome and disingenuous. The internal team advocating for it aren't strong coders and kept showing examples of it automating antipatterns, like writing useless tests that duplicate an if statement in the tested function, writing very verbose and vague comments (meaningless), or taking an example function and making a new one in a boiler plate way (that cut/pastes common code rather than extracting it into a shared function).

Really, I think it's helpful -- sometimes. Especially to new engineers or when dealing with an unfamiliar library. But I do worry it will lower the bar, and feel over using it can be a waste of time.

Are you talking about Github Copilot or Microsoft Copilot? Because I really think the 1st one is pretty useful, although I don't think it needs any training. The 2nd one one the other side is complete bullshit.

Hi! Copilot has detected informal language in your response. Are you stressed by any chance? I have scheduled a priority meeting with your allocated HR during your lunch break to sort things out. Please let me know if you need anything else. Happy coding!

And it'll tell you it can't respond to that because of its rules (censorship) and then say that using glue is a good way to off yourself.

AI logos and buttons tend to be "shiny" with a gradient color scheme.

I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)

I thought they meant gradient descent

Gradient descent is a common algorithm in machine learning (AI* is a subset of machine learning algorithms). It refers to using math to determine how wrong an answer is in a particular direction and adjusting the algorithm to be less wrong using that information.

What are you talking about asking questions? It's AI ... it's all we need to know

I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable writing a reply to this comment because the only possible intelligent replies involve profanity or hate speech. Would you prefer a nice cookie recipe instead?

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I find customer support service Chatbots useful, they tend to ask the right questions before connecting me to an actual human, so I don't have to explain myself over and over. They also categorize your problem so you won't be forwarded 3 times till you finally reach the right department. They're essentially like the "press 1 to..., press 2 to..." shtick during a service call, except the customer support person has access to your chat history.

I have occasionally found the Google search AI handy in pointing me in the right direction, like when I can't remember or don't know a particular term for something, it's decent at giving me the term I'm actually searching for. Can't trust it for shit as it's intended to be used though.

And Proton Mail as of today. JFC JUST GIVE ME A LINUX DRIVE CLIENT FOR FUCKS SAKE.

first good thing the French have done