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Are we training the Matrix now?
Can we go back to 1999 then please? I need another timeline
Not surprising.
Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add “guardrails” or point them to a calculator.
It shouldn’t be surprising that they utterly fail at basic tasks on their own.
Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add “guardrails” or point them to a calculator.
Isn’t this the crux of one of Rick and Morty episodes?
Four AIs spent 11 minutes deciding who was authorized to fertilize one wheat block. At that point, I’m not sure the experiment failed. They recreated middle management with no humans involved. Give them another hour and they’ll require a quarterly performance review from the wheat.
Surprised they didn’t invent Agile, frankly
Could have been an email
yet another proof that middle managers aren’t sentient
My manager keeps me from having to deal with politics, shifting priorities, and tells me what I need to do to deal with the endless morass of corporate bureaucracy. He’s worth every cent.
Problem being, lots of middle managers got the job via The Peter Principal. My last boss landed the role that way. He’s an astonishing devops guy and one of the 5 smartest humans I’ve ever known, but he cannot manage people.
Quit my job at Lowe’s when it became apparent the regional theft prevention manager hated me. GM passed me in the store and said I better watch it with her as he couldn’t protect me. Loved the three guys above me, but I was out a couple of hours after hearing that.
Yeah, that can be tricky. Under a previous manager where mostly he was ignored and I worked straight with the middle management, I had gotten the hang of the people inflicting the politics and crap and was significantly able to directly counter it to avoid spurious bullshit.
Then when that manager got laid off, and I got a new “I’ll shield you” manager, who largely just takes whatever crap he’s told and passes it on and says it’s better to just take it than risk making waves. So I end up having to waste more time than I used to.
But absolutely was valuable in an early manager who took on the politics direct while I just did my work in early career. Of course he got fired for keeping documentation on a certain executive making a terrible call and actually sharing it with the senior leadership team when that terrible call went bad. Senior executives canned the executive, but let him fire the manager on the way out. Guess if there’s one thing worse than an executive incurring risk, it’s a snitch.
what about his manager?
Response for politics, priority shifting and upholding the morass of corporate bureaucracy. He’s worth every 100k.
And replaceable.
What would you say you do here?
I take directives from the CEO and board and deliver them to the goddamn employees, so they don’t have to deal with them. I have people skills, dammit!
so they don’t have to deal with them
Yep, that’s the entire purpose of middle management. Making sure the c-suite doesn’t have to interact with the plebes.
They should try again after they fix the problems. Though i wonder if they even understand what the problem was or are they “allowed” to fix it.
Fermi paradox was really referring to intelligence eventually creating a paralyzing bureaucracy.
Lol
Oh. Just like real life.
