Unfortunate thing is your mate is on par with the working knowledge of big venture capital swilling CEOs, CTOs, not to mention the other departments trying to get in on that sweet sweet prompt “magic”

As you say, responsible ML is an interpretable scalpel, not a black box hammer. These ocean boiling LLMs purporting to be a tool with universal generalism are such a categorical disaster–for ecology, for the health of the field, for public understanding.

It’s hard to go to work and have these conversations over and over again, to be honest it’s depressing, wearing me down. I suspect I’ll say no one too many times to “putting AI in our product” (by which they mean destroying simple well designed navigation by putting everything behind a chatbot search etc) and be let go.

Sadly it’s still ragingly popular in the tech start up / tech bro / LinkedIn cringe world.

My job is, among other things, ML related…I try to warn them off of this rhetoric all the time but they can’t stop being distracted by the shiny jingling keys.

I was shoved into Linux by a nearly dead HPC expert who was definitely angry about the advent of electricity.

Wasn’t given any indication of a text editor, I ran across vim for one reason or another and enjoyed his Palpatine-like reaction from seeing me using vim enough to keep using it. And if you’re enjoying something, why not

But yeah, it has some drawbacks lol