I had a meeting with the CEO where he told me he noticed I wasn’t using the Chat GPT account the company had given me. I wasn’t really aware the company was tracking that.
Give the CEO more work, he is bored.
Seriously. How does a CEO have the kind of time needed to micro manage someone’s use of ChatGPT?
Very few employees.
Fewer by the day.
Really good article. Really shows how much the most affected people by ai are never the decision makers.
CEOs want this to replace engineers. It isn’t anywhere close, won’t be for a long time. It’s only useful right now for very narrow use cases. Pushing it outside the boundaries of what it’s actually good at is usually a recipe for losing time.
AI is good for solving small, obscure problems that would take an engineer a long time to look up the solution for, like why the compiler doesn’t like some little dumb edge case. For that, it kicks ass.
It isn’t great at unit tests, and engineers should be very careful about letting it write them in the first place unless the tested code is very simple. You should fully understand every line in every test you write. If you don’t, you don’t know whether the AI actually understands the intention, or even if you understand it yourself.
AI slop can be bad but this Bradley doesn’t understand that businesses exist to make money.
Bradley talking about his manager:
"He doesn’t know that the important thing isn’t just the end result, it’s the journey and the questions you answer along the way”.
If Bradley is making art only for personal growth, he needs to quit and make his own indie game.
Because if you are working for someone else it’s not the journey, it’s the result. Get it done quicker and then slack.
The end result is often not important though. what is important is that someone understands the customer’s business use case well enough to be able to judge if the end result is actually fit for purpose and to adjust the end result to accommodate later changes in the requirements. AI is particularly bad at both of those.
adjust the end result to accommodate later changes in the requirements.
That’s the end result.
AI is particularly bad at both of those.
Bradley wasn’t talking about delivering AI art. He didn’t like that his manager used AI for prototyping to simplify describing what he wanted Bradley to create.
He wants the manager to describe his ideas to him, then spend hours sketching and inking the idea only for the manager to say, “that’s not exactly right” and start it all over again. Bradley must be an hourly contractor because his argument makes no sense. A picture is worth a thousand words. Bradley wants more meetings and email exchanges instead of getting results.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
As in if you show it to 100 people each one will think of a different 10 words. But not as in “here, take these 1000 words and produce a picture that will put those 1000 words into the minds of anyone who sees it”.
So you don’t want employees to learn how to get better at their craft along the way? Just ship broken junk, and keep making the same mistakes over and over?
If I needed a painting of a bird, it would be much easier to show the artist a photo of a bird and then describe how my idea differs from the photo instead of spending hours describing to the artist what the bird in my mind should look like.
Bradley didn’t like that his boss wasn’t standing over his shoulder describing everything while Bradley sketched the picture.
The other artists in the article had valid points.
Part of my compensation is the fulfillment and experience I get from my job. Taking that away changes the equation and I’m job hunting again.
So you would prefer lots of meetings, messages and redone work instead of someone showing you a picture that kind of represents what they want?
The problem is that the picture does not represent what they want. They want aspects a, b and c from the picture while someone else looking at it might see aspects x, y and z. Pictures are an incredibly imprecise form of communication.
It’s not only a picture. It’s a picture with a description. It’s the starting point. You don’t start a painting by going from blank canvas to finished product. You start with a sketch.
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