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Microsoft executive vice president bemoans employees sending him "AI slop," saying "This is a doom loop." (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

As my violin teacher used to say, “practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.”

If you’re not aiming for excellence every time you do something you’re practicing imperfection.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Sure man, but the vast majority of us do not work in the making beautiful sounds with violing business.

    If some middle manager boss says to some minion to make a quick draft of a keynote of some random info that tangentially may make sense in one of his meetings, and the minion then goes on working on it on full attention for a day to make the beautifullest keynote of the word he did not do a draft and the boss is pissed because other shit did not get done. Having an llm quarter ass a keynote based on a prompt and two refinements is precisely the effort required for that job, any more than that is wasting time.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    If the quick draft doesn't justify the time and energy, the keynote certainly doesn't. If the keynote is a waste of time, then the meeting is pointless. The best place for the LLM is to replace the jackass who called the pointless meeting in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    This thread of comments reads like you just now discovered bullshit corporate jobs exists. Welcome to 1985. Some books to help you navigate are: Dealing with people you can not stand, bullshit jobs, almost any work stress self help book, and arguably American Psycho - specifically the movie version but the book is fine. Embrace the 80/20 rule, don't let perfect be the enemy of good, show solidarity with your fellow workers, and just play the game until you can reach a point to enact change.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    the vast majority of us do not work in the making beautiful sounds with violing business.

    And you should be. This... complacency you have is near literally rotting the world away. If you want to see love and beauty in the world around you, you have to put it there.

    Having an llm quarter ass a keynote based on a prompt and two refinements is precisely the effort required for that job,

    I'll permit you this, I don't want to work on that either, but you ought to consider how much of your life is spent doing this... corporate bullshit you obviously hate.

    Find some dignity within you, man. Chase a life that's worth living. Yes, even in a Cyberpunk dystopia this is still possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That is not me, it is an example of a 9 to 5 in the service industry around the world. You might judge someone working like that but the reality is that the important stuff is not done at the office but at home with the family. That shit pays the bills and it is not really an option to find a job with purpose, that is sadly an idealistic dream, most people just carry on in a job that pays enough to then do other stuff with those they love.

    You can find all the dignity you want but at the end of the day you need to take the available jobs or end up on the street.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    I'm not asking you to find a job with purpose, I'm asking you to make purpose. Don't just sit and suffer a death in the meraphorical sense. Breathe life into the world—the world needs music.

    I worked at an arcade for 8 years, I'm perfectly familiar with soul-sucking work.

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