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I don't understand what MS is doing. The only AI available at work is M365 Copilot. It's absolutely terrible. Tiny context window, super guardrailed, can barely handle a 100 line PowerShell script. It's so so bad. I don't get it.

I get it. It's just something we've thought about as long as we've been human, and still haven't figured out. It's frustrating when most of the people commenting don't know any of the source material. It's so arrogant.

I agree. It's an interesting discussion for those who have never taken college level philosophy classes I suppose. What consciousness/thought is is still a massively open question. Seeing people in the comments with what they think is their novel solution has already been posited like 400 years ago. Honestly it's kind of sad seeing this stuff on a forum like this. These posts are for sure the worst of Hackernews.

I don't know where you guys are seeing all this AI stuff. I feel like you're going out of your way to complain about new features. Just don't fuckin use it. Even Facebook, Snapchat, insta etc, it's not in your face. You have to be very intentional to use and find it.

Edit: even on my PIXEL phone, I honestly don't know how to pull up Gemini. I also think it's ironic that on a forum for companies who are sucking on the AI teet that y'all are complaining about the world you created.

Lol awwww, AI bros are mad.

This is just title inflation. If this is what you're doing, you're not a CTO or you're not doing your job properly.

It's not that bad. Put a box over it with a blanket or two and you'll be fine.

CLI would be an upgrade. You're misunderstanding what I'm saying.

Yes, you still craft an initial prompt with exploratory chats. I feel like I'm talking to a bot right now tbh.

No, he's talking about memory getting passed into the prompts and maintaining control. When you turn on memory, you have no idea what's getting stuffed into the system prompt. This applies to chats and agents. He's talking about chat.

A lot of times, they do. But where I'm at, lawyers have the last say for some reason. A good example is our sub/sister companies. Our lawyers told us that we needed separate physical servers for their fucking VMs and IAM. We have a fucking data center and they wanted us to buy new hardware.

We fought and tried to explain that what they were asking didn't even make sense, all of our data and IAM is already under the same M365 tenant and other various cloud services. We can't take that apart, it's just not possible.

They wouldn't listen and are completely incapable of understanding so we just said "ok, fine" and I was told to just ignore them.

The details were forgotten in the quagmire of meetings and paperwork, and the sun rose the next day in spite of our clueless 70+ year old legal team.

Your intuition is right. I work at a big corp right now and the average age in the operations department is probably just under 50. That's not to say age is bad, however... these people have never worked anywhere else.

They are completely stuck in the 90s. Almost nothing is automated. Everyone clicks buttons on their grossly outdated tools.

Meetings upon meetings upon meetings because we are so top heavy that if they weren't constantly in meetings, I honestly don't know what leadership would do all day.

You have to go through a change committee to do basic maintenance. Director levels gatekeep core tools and tech. Lower levels are blamed when projects faceplant because of decades of technical debt. No one will admit it because it (rightly) shows all of leadership is completely out of touch and is just trying their damnedest to coast to retirement.

The younger people that come into the org all leave within 1-2 years because no one will believe them when they (rightly) sound the whistle saying "what the fuck are we doing here?" "Oh, you're just young and don't know what working in a large org is like."

Meanwhile, infra continues to rot. There are systems in place that are complete mysteries. Servers whose functions are unknown. You want to try to figure it out? Ok, we can discuss 3 months from now and we'll railroad you in our planning meetings.

When it finally falls over, it's going to be breathtaking. All because the fixtures of the org won't admit that they haven't kept up on tech at all and have no desire to actually do their fucking job and lead change.

Absolutely. It's extremely common with small and midsize businesses that don't have any IT on staff.

Welcome to corporate security. "If an attacker infiltrates our VPN and gets on the network with admin credentials and logs into a workstation..." Ya, no shit, thanks Mr Security manager, I will dispose of all of our laptops.

We have been using MS Copilot in our meetings for months and it does a very good job summarizing who said what and who has what deliverables. It's extremely useful and I've found it to be very accurate.

LLMs have been able to search the web for a couple years now.

Companies get hacked because Bob in finance doesn't have MFA and got a phishing email. In my experience working for MSP's it's always been phishing and social engineering. I have never seen a company comprised from some obscure bug in software. This may be different for super large organizations that are international targets, but for the average person or business, you're better off spending time just MFAing everything you can and using common sense.

No one knows, especially not parent with his one liner quip.

Without a thermostat you have no idea what the temperature is. We are talking about failure, not turning the furnace off.

I ended up giving up. It's incredibly hard to keep it on track but also let the user be creative. At any time I could just say things like "I jump into the lake" or "I open the chest" even though neither one was mentioned, and it would happily continue on. I found myself pretty far down the generate a JSON scene full of JSON objects to interact with and quit - because at that point, you're just writing a game engine.

Hmm, the last time I played with GPT voice mode it was able to do all kinds of different accents.

No, the furnace shouldn't do anything. It should fail open.

Lol ok. We'll wait for your game changing technology, keep us posted.

Well, we didn't, but some of our third party softwares did. Hard to avoid.

You simply cannot avoid it. There are so many applications and services that use AWS. Companies cant sit on 100% in-house software stacks.

He was such a great teacher and player. Absolutely loved his videos. He seemed like such a wholesome positive person, this is very sad.

Its normal anywhere as long as you're not comparing coastal to non coastal, yes.

I think about it as pushing the boundaries of the minimum amount of funny to be a joke. It's not anti humor, it's not absurdism, it's not ironic. It's trying to approach the absolute least amount of whatever a joke is. Some kind of minimum joke Komolgorov complexity.

Man you would have hated the 90s when websites were text and hyperlinks. They all looked the same!

Yes, because our documentation is fine. No one thinks any changes need to be made. Leadership is realizing all their AI hype has no benefit to anything we do so they're scrambling to find projects to use it for.

That's exactly it. We are using AI to reformat all of our documentation... And they we've been told to review the output. No one asked for this, there are no benefits, and it's adding completely unneeded extra work.