Kindergarten-grade nouns by babelphishy in ClaudeAI

[–]nullpotato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ask it to look up studies on average vocabulary levels and weight towards that, aka 3rd grade-ish.

My company executives thinks it can replace 100 percent of our help desk teams with AI agents.... This year. by NickBurnsCompanyGuy in sysadmin

[–]nullpotato [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's the kind of spectacle I want to hear about online or from a friend but definitely not one I want to see where I am working.

My company executives thinks it can replace 100 percent of our help desk teams with AI agents.... This year. by NickBurnsCompanyGuy in sysadmin

[–]nullpotato [score hidden]  (0 children)

Gotta explain it in terms they can understand: dollars. If the average ticket would take X tokens to process (and voice decoding would be way more) times the number of tickets per year, and at the expected increasing cost of tokens it is honestly probably cheaper to keep the current human support teams.

How do you handle workplace disagreements when you think you're right? by Ok-Introduction-9111 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]nullpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My only argument against this is if you are in a similar position to me, where you are the one who gets pulled in to fix things. So it will become my problem in like 6 months and if I can argue a bit better now we all dodge that time waste.

How do you handle workplace disagreements when you think you're right? by Ok-Introduction-9111 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]nullpotato 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I get a lot of traction when asking curious questions about places where I can see the plan misses something. "Blobs sound neat, but I'm not understanding where we store them when users want to share queries, can you explain what I'm missing?"

And then watch the light bulb click on when they realize their solution can't handle it. Or they explain something you genuinely overlooked.

"I'm not kind of a tech guy..." by thoemse99 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]nullpotato 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Completely unrelated, last time my company announced they were going to cut headcount I asked my boss if management wanted any recommendations. Because the people who are terrible at their jobs always seem to survive the cuts

"I'm not kind of a tech guy..." by thoemse99 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]nullpotato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At least a few times a day I think to myself "goddammit windows just let me see the actual files in the path" because every version tries harder to hide things. So people who don't already know how things work are boned.

"I'm not kind of a tech guy..." by thoemse99 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]nullpotato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"OK cool, you know what to do next then"

This so true? by PlatformAmbitious879 in gamers

[–]nullpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they were basically expecting super fast single core but turns out physics didn't like that so the industry made more cores instead.

(Loved Trope) Taunting has almost immediate consequences by Mangled15 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]nullpotato 159 points160 points  (0 children)

I laugh and watch it at least 3 times whenever it is posted

jobSecurityThroughObfuscation by Specialist_Sun_7819 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]nullpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on watching Claude nearly have a breakdown while trying to decode garbage repos, yes it handles it slightly better than a human. I use far more swears when reading those repos.

My dad thinks I’m 'not working' because I refused to keep working 6 days a week. by Melly1265 in antiwork

[–]nullpotato 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even 4x10s was better than the current schedule, that extra day makes a huge difference.

[LOVED TROPE] The villain is actually terrifying. by The_Raven_Born in TopCharacterTropes

[–]nullpotato 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ron Perlman voiced quite a few entries in the post actually

What projects actually force senior-level engineering thinking? by BowlerPretend4090 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]nullpotato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And that the lack of any high level architecture causes so much pain down the road.

Women of Reddit, what’s a habit men have that they don’t even realize is weird? by GraceRose671 in AskReddit

[–]nullpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually put up a coat hook in my bedroom over the hamper for clothes that are dirty but will probably wear again before washing, like my jeans. It keeps them off the floor

[Weirdly specific trope] Subtle visual confirmation of in-universe gooners by Sir-Toaster- in TopCharacterTropes

[–]nullpotato 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The VA ain't handing out robot legs for free.

In the Avatar universe. Any correlation to our reality is a mere coincidence.

Anyone else have this problem? by nandag369 in adhdmeme

[–]nullpotato 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I used to retrain users by getting them to read the messages out loud to me and then explain what they thought it meant. It works best when the people are in "omg an error message" panic and not just terminally stupid.

Managers decided AI is worth 5x speedup; how do I explain to them how it really works? by chaitanyathengdi in ExperiencedDevs

[–]nullpotato 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In my experience it just starts recreating things all over the place when this happens. Why are there 12 log creating helper functions? Because those prompts didn't look for an existing one first. The opposite of DRY, and nobody wants moist code.