@mathowie Hey, so BTW: last week, our fridge died. We were like, hmm, we should get it repaired. Then we were like, hmm, it's almost 10 years old. Then we were like, aw crap, tariffs.
But then, I remembered: auto-filling pitcher!
So, yeah, we got one of those. 🥂
This house needs pneumatic tubes to supply us with ramen & phở on demand. Like just push button and SHOOMP: soup.
@cinebox yes... YES
@ajft yesssss dumplings!
Also, relatedly, tragically, I have eaten all my instant ramen and have neglected to replenish our reserves
Catsby just showed up and told me the house requires a wet food dispenser #cats
Cheddars has joined Catsby to petition, as well
Cheddars has escalated, i think i’d better go take care of this #cats
The next step from here is that Cheddars launches herself at me, expecting (not unreasonably) to be caught and carried off to food
That thing where I mention in a meeting that some task in the sprint will take a bit of time & digging, so we may want to consider priority vs other tasks - and then two different people DM me with genAI copypasta on how to do the task.
Like, no, the point wasn't that I don't know what I'm doing. Also I have access to those same tools.
And also now I'm biting my tongue because I know any expression of disgruntlement will be responded-to with "I was just trying to help"
@earth2marsh Well, that's the thing: I don't think it's intentionally passive aggressive. A lot of folks seem to think their engagements with genAI tools are singular & impressive. To the point they don't consider - or forget - that their experiences may not be unique. Or that their co-workers may also have expertise.
But also it could just be weird passive aggressive attempts to sound smart
I've had this thing happen multiple times with different folks, so I'm not sub-tooting anyone in particular really.
But, it's frustrating to have to be like "No, that copypasta isn't helpful - it didn't tell me anything new, even if it seemed clever to you. Also, it's mistaken on these several points - and it didn't consider bits of crucial context of which you weren't aware when you posed the question to the LLM. But, I probably won't actually say any of this to you because I'm both trying to do the work and not be an asshole to you. So, now I'm more tired than I was before."
Here's a weird childhood story of which I'm reminded by the vibe I get from some folks who engage in LLM copypasta:
In elementary school, I was a hyperactive kid. A solution they came up with was to plonk me down in front of an Atari 800 with a stack of BASIC programming books. It worked - I stayed put and tore through all the books and learned how to program.
Turns out this was a pilot program that later led to an entire room of Atari 800s. And, one day, my whole class got to sit down at those computers.
But, we didn't get to program. In fact, I got yelled at when I tried to drop into BASIC - I was going to break the thing, apparently. I couldn't convince the adults that, you know, I actually did know what I was doing.
Instead, we just played games. Other kids were like, "nya nya you're not special, now we all get to computer, look I'm better at frogger than you"
And I was like, but that's not what I was doing the whole time...
Also I know that's not the exact situation, but it rhymes enough to trigger old feelings that I have to mitigate.
Like, I think some folks are genuinely excited that they "get to computer" now - and maybe they really feel like they're helping by sharing what the LLM told them.
And I don't want to be a dick to them. Maybe they're not really saying they're better at frogger than me. But also I'm like, that's not what I was doing the whole time...
@adhdjesse I read Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind" back in high school and it made a dent on my impressionable brain. Ever since, I always think of "me" as just a small but highly influential process riding atop a pile of gremlins
@nocontexttrek Picard never punched him!
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in someone else's computer
So the neighbor’s cat continues to be an explorer: she climbed a tree outside my upstairs office window and ended up on the little roof over our front door. #cats
Quietly expressing my distaste for corporate self-review processes by composing a query to ChatGPT to draft it all for me. Then, by closing that tab with a sigh and starting over to write it myself.
Gonna put a rubber duck on my desk and name it Chad Gipity
@andypiper If you have folks you still follow there want want to wean yourself off, I wrote this little hacky script that exports all your subscriptions as an OPML file of RSS feeds
https://gist.github.com/lmorchard/f1f2508a9586d8e92efd84686c029f16
