There’s different levels of what is being sold as AI.

At the top, there’s the big promises that AI will replace all workers and somehow usher in a golden age. But there’s never any real evidence to support it. I consider this all hype that’s easily ignored and is only dangerous when powerful people start to believe and act on it.

Below that, AI is coming in like a new tool that speeds up tasks that are otherwise very manual.

Stupid example: remember on The Office when they read Michael’s script, and at one point the “idiot” character was referred to as “Dwigt”? The explanation was that Michael had originally written the character to make fun of Dwight and then changed it via find-and-replace. Except that doesn’t catch Dwigt because it was a typo. An AI solution would be way more likely to catch that and fix it, preventing a humiliating mistake from being printed, and saving a person hours of proofreading.

Better example: when I wrote code at work, I can tell the AI “now write all the automated tests” and in a couple minutes it will spit out a thorough test suite that exercises all the functionality and edge cases. Something that might take a few hours is basically done for me, and I just have to review it. That reviewing would normally have been done by 2 other people before we can ship that change. Instead, I can be one of those reviewers and only one additional person needs to go over it. We’ve just saved somebody an hour.

But those examples aren’t the ones being hyped up so heavily because it’s only making AI “useful”, not “revolutionary”.

It’s a tool. It’s good at some things. It’s hilariously bad at others.

IMO it’s more like how Excel came in and replaced a bunch of tedious paperwork, allowing complicated spreadsheets to suddenly be easily edited and dynamically updated when you need to make changes.

I see posts like this sometimes and wonder wtf they’re talking about.

Then I see how huge my blocklist is and realize I’m probably having a very different Lemmy experience.

Finger hovering over power button

“I’m giving you one last chance”

I will suggest things when it starts with “this thing we do isn’t working” and it’s in an area that actually affects my work. It helps to include a suggestion on what would fix it. I’m talking about process things that people often stop noticing after a while.

If some sales guy sleeps at his desk 6 hours a day I don’t say shit and don’t give a fuck. That’s his manager’s fault and problem.

My general attitude toward work is that I want to be able to do my job with as little friction as possible. I’m there to stay in my lane and do excellent work. The other lanes, corporate strategies, managerial book-of-the-month, corporate culture and values do not interest me.

Whenever I’m able to get one on one time with junior employees I always remind them “it’s a multi billion dollar company. It is not your friend. Do what you do for your own career, not this corporation.”

The LubeLogger meltdown ticket is pretty goddamn funny.

If it walks like Russian propaganda and quacks like Russian propaganda…

Fully agreed. The mods will add this as a rule but probably not enforce it super aggressively. Unlike things like abuse and spam, the downsides of not adding a tag is that you’ll invite lower quality responses. We can look at some kind of automation if the community really grows.

OH SHIT THEY’RE DOING MATH IN THERE

Pros: Posts are more obvious when you’re browsing posts from multiple communities. It helps reinforce/remind what tone replies should take.

Cons: More work to mod!

I’d love to hear more feedback from people about what they think. Upvoting the post doesn’t count - USE YOUR WORDS.

Thank you! But I prefer to think of myself as a terrible person.

FINE.

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Fileflows can probably be configured to do this. I only use it to convert everything to HEVC but it’s a node based workflow and you could roll in renaming and tagging.

Workaholic is just a tight framing around priorities. Someone who focuses too much on work is ordering their priorities in a certain way. All the excuses in the word don’t change that.

Every time they spend their time on their job, it’s a decision to not spend that time on something or someone else.

Maybe that’s critical to their long term survival. Maybe it’s not. Maybe they are chasing success and will reach it. Or not. Maybe they’re doing that because their parents were like that and it’s learned behaviour.

But it doesn’t matter. People don’t really change that much in the long term. Don’t stick around because you think they will “improve”. This is who she is. If you’re ok with that, set your expectations appropriately. If not, make a hard decision sooner rather than later.

I don’t mind pitching in, assuming Dolphin does a halfass good job of notifying about mods tasks pending.

Usually active in PDT.

I use a deluge image that’s got vpn support built in. Pick whatever you want, but make sure it’s configured to stop all torrent traffic if the vpn isn’t connected. You don’t want it to fallback to continue working but revealing your home IP.

It doesn’t shield your IP but it’s sick for ad blocking in and out of the house.

It’s intentional and having worked in the market research tools sector for a couple years, I concluded it’s because they’re idiots.

The rationale is that a later question might prejudice your response to an earlier question, so to eliminate bias they prevent you from changing a previous response. Because apparently that’s so much more common in a self-serve survey than making a fucking mistake.

Well, excepting if you use your body to drive a car through a bunch of people.

Extremely controversial take, I’m sure: you don’t shave for other people. You shave for yourself.

I’m on vacation and rented a plug in hybrid. It’s been 4 days and my brain is still not quite grasping that I need to press the brake pedal to make it slow down.

Regenerative braking has to be the best innovation in driving in decades.

Public charging is still annoying as hell, though.