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Generative AI boom "could come to a fairly swift end"
  • I'm no expert, so take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt.

    Fundamentally, a LLM is just a fancy autocomplete; there's no source of knowledge it's tapping into, it's just guessing words (though it is quite good at it). Correspondingly, even if it did have a pool of knowledge, even that can't be perfect, because the truth is never quite so black and white in many areas.

    In other words, hard.

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  • Ditto. I mostly use it when Google (search, not Bard) fails me. I find it's really good at answering questions of the ilk: "I swear there's a function for this in the library I'm using, what's it called again?", or telling me that it doesn't actually exist.

  • Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots
  • Tangential, but my last employer (US based) outsourced L1 IT to a call center in India, and it was maddening. They didn't know very much beyond the script, and often you just had to say the right words to get your issue escalated, but it would always take a day or so to get called back. It drove me nuts as an engineer, but I'm sure it works fine for people who are less familiar with computers.

  • Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots
  • I've found that the chat agents are much less able to "be a human" and help you out, it feels like talking to a chatbot sometimes. It's a lot easier to get someone to empathize with your problem over the phone, IME

  • Be careful. New platforms invite bad actors.
  • FWIW, /etc/passwd itself contains no passwords (the name exists for historical reasons) but it definitely is a globally accessible file that can give you clues about the target system. Given this, it's more likely the user is attempting to find out if arbitrary disk reads are possible by using a well known path on many servers.

  • VSCode completions

    Hi all!

    What do you guys use for completions in VSCode? I'm driving into ruby right now and have been a bit underwhelmed by what I've tried.

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