Ah yes, unexploded ordnance. Such a kingly gift for the common people!
^/s^
Middle management seems like exactly the kind of jobs that LLMs could actually replace and do a good job at.
We individual contributors do the actual creative work and make gears of industry turn.
The owners at the top will want to stay rich and stay in control because obviously being rich means they are "one of the good ones"
All the layers of hierarchy in between? Their main functions are to filter all the information about their department to send up the chain, or to take the marching orders from above and fill in the details for everybody below them. With some human margin of error. And that's the best case scenario is somebody who actually does their job and does it well.
Filtering data into summaries, generating new data from simple high-level descriptions, and not doing it "correctly" or "optimally" but "believably?" I think we found the job LLMs were invented to replace!!
(in reality, I'd much rather see $100,000 salaries go to 100,000 human managers rather than the same $10 Billion be split between tech giants and shareholders, but it's still funny)
I just said to my wife this week how so often I'm at an appointment or at the store and the person helping me starts with the polite "any big plans for this evening / weekend" and in my head I'm thinking "leave me alone, I don't know what's going on! Why you gotta put me on the spot like that? Why am I even here?"
I have a simple 5-step plan I've used to do this.
- Get old and have a family that always has needs
- Get a shitton of pets too that always have needs
- Go look at the shower plumbing I need to fix
- Go look at my car hovering on jack stands as I wait for parts to come in for the brakes
- I think there's an old overdue bill sitting somewhere too--
Heyyy today seems like the perfect time to go do that yard work that it's been too cold for!
And what you describe is probably the best case scenario, that the well meaning artist misses it in a rush.
In the real world much of the time I bet the artist is well aware and frustrated because the game already shipped (with no input from them or their boss) to make it by the end of the quarter and now the press assets all have some bland slop BS front and center instead of the real version staring back from their own monitor.
Yeah, but the countermeasures are client-side because that's what you can control. And some kind FOSS devs out there make it easy to start somewhere decent.
- Sent from my LibreWolf
POWER OVERWHELMING
What about the slightly larger bonuses that quarter for the executives who had the outside-the-box and paradigm-shifting bright idea to eliminate the V&V department? HUH?
There's probably a dusty old Ferrari buried in some retired rich guy's 7th garage, and all the world had to suffer for it was a few fucked up networks here and there and losing the respect of IT people all over the place.
My everclear story is short, sweet, and typical, lol.
Friends and I were out of town a few states away for a big concert with limited locations. We randomly hung out with the guys in the hotel room next door who were drinking Everclear, among other things.
One friend had a capful and reacted harshly. Then while the other friend had their capful, I went for the bottle itself to save some time. I also made a show of not taking a sip but tipping back the bottle and taking a big full gulp. I'd also like to point out that I've never been a drinker, so I have no built up tolerance for any part of the experience including the burn.
It was decades ago and I vividly remember the experience as "my lungs instantly boiled off all moisture and my insides rapidly shrunk into a desiccated strand of human jerky and then exploded like that nazi in The Last Crusade."
They are like REALLY good with computers too. The last one also did this cute hiss when a Tesla would drive past.
What you say is totally rational, which is why many of the people supporting these monsters are doing it for irrational reasons. Things like hate, anger, and bigotry seem to be very effective right now!
I present you with the rare two-headed "best subthread of the day by the best username of the day" award!
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