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Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah sorry but no. This is definitely a case of “you’re holding your phone wrong” in your comment.

The tools in this case is consistently giving wrong results and measurably not living up to claimed efficiency. This is literally your business paying Microsoft to reduce efficiency and output a worse product than had you not done that.

Maybe AI will be there some day, but as of right now, using deterministic tooling is still unquestionably the king of productivity helping.

Comment · 2 years ago
Every single click in ServiceNow takes a full 2 seconds to do anything. For a ticketing system. Insane.

What’s more insane is that it is still better than the vast majority of ticketing software. I don’t know what it is about ticketing and Helpdesk that it ALwAYs ends up like that.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://resources.uplevelteam.com/gen-ai-for-coding

Efficiency does not go up. In fact, the users claims that they are more productive do not stand up to scrutiny.

Code quality decreases.

This is why I don’t just believe what people say. It makes no sense to me that something I am observing is sneaking in little bugs on nearly every suggestion somehow saves time.

It logically cannot be true that reading output code to make sure it is doing what you want is significantly faster than just writing what’s in your head.

Then it is supposedly good for boilerplate, but like, code templates have existed forever. There’s been tools with prescriptive, deterministic output that handle boilerplate for you for ages. So again here, it makes literally zero sense that a non-deterministic output is actually handling boilerplate better than just setting your env up properly.

Comment · 2 years ago
A new study also shows people using AI produce code with 41% more bugs. And that’s just what the users missed!

Calculators arent giving you “kind of correct” answers.

Comment · 2 years ago
Twitter probably over censored the story. Considering all of the crazy demonstrably fake news surrounding this, I can see how handling this was probably difficult to get right.

If the right wing wants to stop getting over censored, maybe they should hold themselves a little more accountable to the mass amounts of fake news they share.

But again. Hunter Biden was not running for president. The right is still pushing fake news (Ohio) as part of their campaigns.

Comment · 2 years ago
Pretending politics is the only reason people turned on Elon is kinda hilarious. The dude has been behaving utterly unhinged.

All that aside, buying a social media platform for the express purpose of influencing elections is most likely not going to win you any favours.

Comment · 2 years ago
AI fanatics claiming to know SHIT THE TOP TIER NEURAL SCIENCE HAS NO FIRM IDEA OF.

We know there are neurons and that electric signals hit between them. That’s it. Literally everything else about your claim is bogus nonsense.

Comment · 2 years ago
Can you go to jail for knowingly defrauding another entity out of money (such as grants). Yes. Absolutely.

Are you going to go to jail for fudging some numbers on your paper, not likely.

Comment · 2 years ago
Science sent us to the moon. “Do your own research” sent millions to their graves.

“Do your own research” is a movement that is fraught with grifting and basically foundationally just fraud to the core.

“Science” definitely has some fraudsters, but remains the best institution we have in the search for truth.

Comment · 2 years ago
Hacker news is completely flooded with “AI learns just like humans do” and “AI models the human brain” despite neither of these things having any concrete evidence at all.

Unfortunately it isn’t just bosses being fooled by this. Scores of people push this crap.

I am not saying AI has no value. I am saying that these idiots are idiots.

Comment · 2 years ago
So I guess it’s time for the hourly Hackernews propaganda push about “science bad”.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was just saying you should most likely not be doing data processing with SSIS. That’s not what it’s for even if it can be cobbled in to doing some.
Comment · 2 years ago
You suggest that I get my news from a place that vehemently pushes flat earth videos to me because I happened to watch a video laughing at them?

YouTube has an extreme bias to pushing conspiracy theory content.

Comment · 2 years ago
SSIS is for integrations, and pandas is definitely not. I’m not sure what you’re trying to do with SSIS that you’re also doing with pandas, but it’s probably wrong. SSIS is far more geared to data warehousing integrations, while pandas would be reading a data warehouse and doing stuff with it. SSIS isn’t really meant for processing incoming data, even if you can kind of hack it together to do that.

I will say that when we want “real time” integrations, SSIS is phenomenally bad. But that’s not entirely unexpected for what it is.

Comment · 2 years ago
For your children’s children, AR is going to be a commodity product like cell phones are today.

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