Navigating "corporate speak" isn't easy.
Here's a helpful guide I put together:
"Let me check with my team" = No
"Possibly" = No
"On my roadmap" = Not happening
"This will be done in Q4" = This will be done in Q2 next year
"Disagree and commit" = I hate you
"Per my last email" = Try reading, for once in your life
"Challenging landscape" = We're going out of business, quickly
"Digital transformation" = We're going out of business, slowly
"Let's circle back" = We'll never speak of this again
"Take it offline" = We'll never speak of this again
"30,000 foot view" = I don't know what I'm saying
"Low hanging fruit" = Easy promotion
"Open up the kimono" = HR violation
"We use AI" = We don't use AI
"We use machine learning" = We don't use machine learning
"All hands on deck" = Let's actually try for once, please
@patife@josebrito@egg_ert Both Garmin and Suunto have their own OS. For me they all are the same level of ugliness ahah but Garmin is the superior brand in terms of fitness tracking, while Suunto has generally better construction quality
@patife@egg_ert Garmins are indeed very ugly. That's why they should be used only while doing sports 😁 and they are really, really good at that. There's nothing better to track your runs
Noticed something fascinating(ly digusting) about AI-generated summaries of essays: they don't just make them shorter, but also make the ideas more conventional. Which makes sense given the way the AIs are trained.
ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness.
it's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.
'Prompting' is really a bad term for what you do with LLM models. You are really making incantations that cause new things to spring into existence. This ought to be called what it is: spellcasting