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I like OCaml. Formerly Microsoft (O365 Core/Substrate internals), Facebook (Hacklang). I identify as a peacenik

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If this picture is accurate (I highly doubt it, btw), then how is this not a success? So what, people are overconfident, but doesn't look like a disappointing ROI to me. Just questioning the AI slop report. If you read the quotes from it, clearly slop.

[John Cassidy @JohnCassidy]

First it was MIT and McKinsey. Now Bain finds that returns to corporate AI investments are disappointing.

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@JohnCassidy And clearly, some value arrived at Bain. Pure AI slop: “Self-funding the next wave from past returns sounds like discipline. In reality, it is a circular bet with a structural leak”

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@JohnCassidy Honestly, "4% of global respondents achieved AI-related savings of more than 30%" sounds pretty good. What the heck.

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@JohnCassidy In what sense did the technology work, then?

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@geofflangdale @ShriramKMurthi I don't know if reuse is what the doctor ordered, but I do think that AI being better than many programmers and at least seeming not worse at making buggy, unfinished, and unreliable software is something a lot of programmers are responsible for and should be ashamed of

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@ShriramKMurthi And after they decimated it, it didn't get replaced with anything better

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@_ueaj @wordgrammer You also need to take into account the shopping, the setting up of the grill, the learning of how to cook, and all the cleaning and storing you'll have to do. And those fries - are they going into a deep fryer? Do you own one?

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@__roycohen * nobody has ever said this TO MY FACE. IDK, maybe behind my back, somebody said that. Don't know, they never told me

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@__roycohen To be fair, nobody has ever said this about my code. In fact, one of my moments of professional pride is my grumpy coworker telling me he didn't have a burning desire to rewrite my code

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@perrymetzger FWIW, I don't think any of what I'm about to say is true, but IF they had some sort of a breakthrough and it became an issue of national or even international security, it would look just like it looks now, wouldn't it?

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@lilaloveslingos I also remember an old French story about how God gave people the fleas to keep them from being bored

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@lilaloveslingos What is it with the French and the fleas?

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@JesseStojan @LouiseDSadeleer I hesitate to go the other way and unironically claim that LLMs are better at conversation/creative writing than coding. That might be our bias because we happen to know or do more coding day-to-day

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How many non-apple fruits are named after apples? Pineapple, custard apple, appelsin. Any others?

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@ThePrimeagen You don’t know some of my coworkers… they used to not send any PRs. Now, they send PRs and you can even give their bot instructions directly on Azure DevOps via PR comments

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@LouiseDSadeleer I’m saying, I think your perspective is biased

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@phenlix In other words, if they’re understaffed, it’s in the corporate management department. Not enough people who care

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I don’t understand. Whole Foods is out of basic groceries on the regular. Plus all the stealing by the usual suspects despite security guess. @WholeFoods are you going to shut down stores because corporate doesn’t know what’s happening on the floor?

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@phenlix IDK, they could fire those security guards who are not stopping the repeat thieves from entering the store and walking out with beer, etc.