Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ever work in an enterprise environment? Sometimes a single talented developer cannot overcome the calcification of hundreds of people over several decades who care more about the optics of work than actual work. Documentation cannot help if its non-existent/20 years old. Documentation cannot make teams that don't believe in automation, adopt Docker.

  Not that I expect Sam Altman to understand what it's like working in a dumpster fire company, his only job is to just pour the gasoline.

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dumpster fire companies are the ones he’s targeting because they’re the mostly like to look for quick and cheap ways to fix the symptoms of their problems, and most likely to want to replace their employees with automations.

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• galaxy_nova@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You guys are getting documentation?

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, if I’m not, then neither is an LLM.

    But for most projects built with modem tooling, the documentation is fine, and they mostly have simple CLIs for scaffolding a new application.

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    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean if you use the code base you’re working in as context it’ll probably learn the code base faster than you will, although I’m not saying that’s a good strategy, I’d never personally do that

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      • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The thing is, it really won’t. The context window isn’t large enough, especially for a decently-sized application, and that seems to be a fundamental limitation. Make the context window too large, and the LLM gets massively offtrack very easily, because there’s too much in it to distract it.

        And LLMs don’t remember anything. The next time you interact with it and put the whole codebase into its context window again, it won’t know what it did before, even if the last session was ten minutes ago. That’s why they so frequently create bloat.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sometimes documentation is inconsistent.

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