Seems like a situation where more energy needs to be put into preventing screwups than would have been spent just doing the job in the first place. If I hired a human assistant who made such a blatant mistake, and they then turned around and did the thing I just now explicitly told them not to, I would be thinking that they are clearly not cut out for that line of work, and continuing to employ them as an assistant would be foolish. But an “AI” agent does this, and it’s just “Oh, let’s keep trying. It just needs a better model. It just needs better prompts. You just need to watch out for its mistakes.” No thanks.
I mean, you sound like you’re happy using it, and I don’t want to tell you you’re wrong. From a technology design viewpoint, it is a fascinating use case. I just think that for a majority computer users this will only make computers even more frustrating and confusing than they already were. I actually understand how they work, and using this as anything but a stand-alone toy would frustrate the hell out of me.
Oh, I agree and that’s one reason why I think putting it into Windows is a huge mistake!
I am having fun with it because I find the tech interesting and I love seeing what I can get it to do… but it is so dumb and frustrating. But so was 3D printing 12 years ago, you’d have to fiddle with the settings, do some test prints to make sure everything was setup right, deal with a warped bed, and every print was an experiment. It was shitty, but when you got a good print, that was the best feeling. That’s how I feel about LLMs, it mostly sucks but when it works, it’s great.
I also support several open source LLM projects because that is where I think the real innovation will come from, and the technology is only going to get better like 3D printers now.
Seems like a situation where more energy needs to be put into preventing screwups than would have been spent just doing the job in the first place. If I hired a human assistant who made such a blatant mistake, and they then turned around and did the thing I just now explicitly told them not to, I would be thinking that they are clearly not cut out for that line of work, and continuing to employ them as an assistant would be foolish. But an “AI” agent does this, and it’s just “Oh, let’s keep trying. It just needs a better model. It just needs better prompts. You just need to watch out for its mistakes.” No thanks.
I mean, you sound like you’re happy using it, and I don’t want to tell you you’re wrong. From a technology design viewpoint, it is a fascinating use case. I just think that for a majority computer users this will only make computers even more frustrating and confusing than they already were. I actually understand how they work, and using this as anything but a stand-alone toy would frustrate the hell out of me.
Oh, I agree and that’s one reason why I think putting it into Windows is a huge mistake!
I am having fun with it because I find the tech interesting and I love seeing what I can get it to do… but it is so dumb and frustrating. But so was 3D printing 12 years ago, you’d have to fiddle with the settings, do some test prints to make sure everything was setup right, deal with a warped bed, and every print was an experiment. It was shitty, but when you got a good print, that was the best feeling. That’s how I feel about LLMs, it mostly sucks but when it works, it’s great.
I also support several open source LLM projects because that is where I think the real innovation will come from, and the technology is only going to get better like 3D printers now.