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Don't pay for AI, frame your questions like you want Maccas. (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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I stole this from LinkedIn.

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[–] 194 points 6 months ago (18 children)

A coworker said "with paid subscription they don't use you data/chat to train the ai". Has been deccades since i laughed that hard.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Has me thinking about enterprise privacy. What happens if a company has secrets exposed? Will they stop supporting AI or just fire the unlucky employee who did as instructed.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What happens if a company has secrets exposed? Will they stop supporting AI or just fire the unlucky employee who did as instructed.

    Don't think there is an if (just maybe a "when")..... but yeah, they blame the employee for sure

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Old code is insane. The coders at my work don't want to touch the millions of lines of visual basic 6 and fortran that prop up the company. No loops. No encapsulation. Just assignment and soft validations.

    Co-pilot says that was considered safe back in the day. One team just triple checking things and sending to production. The comments suggest issues I have today have been issues and unaddressed for decades.

    I can't get the code to compile and you have to pay MS if you want VB6 IDE, so all I can do is look at the ancient texts I barely understand and ponder its implications on my job.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It was such a clusterfuck and it sucks that you need to work on that code now, but I have a lot of nostalgia for VB. It was really novel and easy to use and quite honestly (IMO) good for what it was. I think I said verbatim "holy shit, a monkey could make a program with this" when I first used VB 4.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    VB is still great. I use it to fully automate a lot of Excel-based tasks, like looping through thousands of Excel files to pull values or update spreadsheets with new features.

    Sure, there are more powerful tools, but VBA is built in and works really well for some tasks like that.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    My company sent out guidelines telling us not to put confidential shit in copilot. So they're already preemptively blaming us. Idk how they could enforce it though.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You don't think they can track everything sent?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    There's probably a log of it but the security team is only like 20 dudes supporting probably 15k users who are being told to integrate AI wherever they can. Also based off some of my interactions with them for other things I'm not even sure they'd have the logs. Seems like they have to go through Microsoft for a lot of shit these days. I'd leave it to someone more knowledgeable to give a real answer though my statements are all just speculation.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If you use any old LLM, they would probably fire you. If the company had something like copilot through the enterprise license for you to use, it has the same data protection thing (whatever they call that shit) as the rest of the suite like SharePoint, onedrive, and teams. In that case it'd be a pretty big issue for Microsoft if something leaks from there.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    In that case it'd be a pretty big issue for Microsoft if something leaks from there.

    Leaks happen out of MS products all the time.

    But it seems to always turn out to be "user error" of course.

    When MS really fucks up, it seems like it's big news in the Linux communities here, and basically doesn't make the news elsewhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    "Aw no, darn it! Nameless Junior Engineer/intern/contractor lost all your data to the open web and a forced update corrupted your C: Drive...Again! Such a shame. Anyway you're gonna love what's new in M$ 365 / Azur€ / Gam£₱a$$ / Window$ €£€V€N / ¢o₱i£ot..."

    --Micro$£o₱, every time

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    "I didn't read the terms of service, but I'm still gonna talk like I did."

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    In my previous company, I pushed hard against incorporating non-local LLMs for that reason, since we dealt with very sensible information. Was ignored for that same argument you just posted.

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