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I mentioned that I don’t use AI today, and the person I was talking to was really surprised. They didn’t understand how I could not use AI for anything.
its almost like the world has been turning for millions of years without it
They were like, “so you don’t Google anything?”
Well, first, yes, I don’t use Google. But second, you can turn AI off! xD
thats crazy.
Partly why I support age-gating some things are the scary stories I hear from schoolteachers I know: about whole classrooms of kids that have trouble concentrating on anything for more than 60 seconds, or how they hear every day: "If AI can do this, why do I have to learn it in the first place?"
(And don't come at me about age gating because I don't care to argue about it.)
I saw somebody in work upload a firewall config xml and start querying if stuff was blocked. I actually thought it was a pretty clever use of it.
I probably wouldn’t trust it to write a config and upload it back, but for an assistant to an untrained eye it was pretty solid.
I’ve also used copilot for silly things like
“Take these 10 lines of process steps, make them sound professional and format them for easy reading”.
Stuff like that isn’t my job, but when it lands on my desk it’s a quick way to get it down and back to what I’m supposed to be focussing on.
This is a long way of saying, there are definitely use cases, but nobody’s being replaced.
I would find it some place between worrisome and you-should-lose your-job, depending on how important that firewall is. This might seem exaggerated, but if your colleague had showed that config to a child, and then asked them yes and no questions, a game to which the child happily participated in. I would consider that exactly as reasonable, and exactly as responsible, as asking an LLM. Imagine someone doing this, for an important firewall config... and taking the child's answers at face value. It's not unreasonable to think that this person is grossly unqualified, and showing a dangerous lack of judgment.
And, that's just the issues I would have regarding using a bullshit generator as a source of truth. If the firewall config could be considered sensitive information, uploading that to a third party, would be grounds for dismissal for entirely separate reasons.