bruno

"mr storylets"

writer (derogatory). lead designer on Fallen London.

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Bluesky
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stu
@stu

work has an LLM assistant that's supposed to replace asking other teams for help in their help channel, but so far my most common answer when trying it is "you should ask someone for help with that" no really???


lmichet
@lmichet
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bruno
@bruno

if your answer to a question is 'ask the llm instead of me' you don't actually know how to think and should be made to re-do your entire socialization starting from kindergarten because clearly something has gone deeply wrong


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in reply to @stu's post:

To be fair this sort of non-answer isn't unique to LLMs. I was looking in my Ford's owners manual for some information on the weeked, and my eyes landed on the section titled "Tire pressure and inflation", and it contained the sentence "Inflate your tires to the pressure recommended by the Ford Motor Company", and there was no number directly present or indirectly referenced anywhere on the page, and, uh, I don't know what someone is supposed to do with that

If the book was not demonstrably eight years old I would strongly suspect that it had been written by LLM

yeah bad documentation is everywhere, which is why it's too bad there's such an effort to replace talking to a coworker with asking an unreliable bot to summarize potentially unreliable information. in this case, asking a coworker took roughly 1-5 minutes of their time and my problem is solved.

Yeah... I have definitely seen the pitch "our LLM will read your corporate wiki and then provide you with information from it!" and that sounds really compelling except for the fact that I have seen our corporate wiki and know what sort of half-truths and out-of-date information large swaths of it contain

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