• 1984@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    Its like having a junior developer with a world of confidence just change shit and spend hours breaking things and trying to fix them, while we pay big tech for the privilege of watching the chaos.

    I asked chat gpt to give me a simple squid proxy config today that blocks everything except https. It confidently gave me one but of course it didnt work. It let through http and despite many attempts to get a working config that did that, it just failed.

    So yeah in the end i have to learn squid syntax anyway, which i guess is fine, but I spent hours trying to get a working config because we pay for chat gpt to do exactly that…

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      10 months ago

      It confidently gave me one

      IMO, that’s one of the biggest “sins” of the current LLMs, they’re trained to generate words that make them sound confident.

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      10 months ago

      Man, I can’t wait to try out generative AI to generate config files for mission critical stuff! Imagine paying all of us devops wankers when my idiot boss can just ask Chat GPT to sort all this legacy mess we’re juggling with on the daily!

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      10 months ago

      I have a friend who swears by llms, he sais it helps him a lot. I once watched him do it, and the experience was exactly the same you described. He wasted couple of hours fighting with bullshit generator just to do everything himself anyway. I asked him wouldn’t it be better to not waste the time, but he didn’t really saw the problem, he gaslit himself that fighting with the idiot machine helped.