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That your firm purchased training that was clearly just some chancers doing whatever seems like an even worse approach than just giving out access to a service and telling everyone to give it a shot.

Do they also post vacancies asking for 5 years experience in a 2 year old technology?

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To be fair, 1. They made the training themselves, it’s just that it was made mandatory for all of eng 2. They did start out more like just allowing access, but lately it’s tipping towards full crazy (obviously the end game is see if it can replace some expensive engineers)

> Do they also post vacancies asking for 5 years experience in a 2 year old technology?

Honestly no… before all this they were actually pretty sane. In fact I’d say they wasted tons of time and effort on ancient poorly designed things, almost the opposite problem.

I was a bit unfair then. That sounds like someone with good intent tried to put something together to help colleagues. And it's definitely not the only time I heard of negative prompting being a recommended approach.

> And it's definitely not the only time I heard of negative prompting being a recommended approach.

I’m very willing to admit to being wrong, just curious if in those other cases it actually worked or not?

I never saw any formal analysis, just a few anecdotal blog posts. Your colleagues might have seen the same kind of thing and taken it at face value. It might even be good advice for some models and tasks - whole topic moves so fast!

To be fair this shit is so new and constantly changing that I don’t think anybody truly understands what is going on.

Right… so maybe we should all stop pretending to be authorities on it.

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