Leon

Oh my heart. 😭

I think you’re underestimating how many women use the internet. They just don’t go swing that around much because of the harassment it tends to attract.

During a meeting not too long ago someone was like “we’re looking into using AI to generate these reports.”

So they have a dude who gets requests to generate reports. It’s not the same reports, but rather custom reports from scattered bits of data throughout a huge database. Ergo you can’t really create a program to extract these reports on demand, a person actually has to sit and piece these together.

Now they want to use LLMs to alleviate him, as this isn’t technically his role.

They scoffed at me when I asked about how important it is that these reports are accurate, but I mean, it’s a valid concern. Best case you get sometimes-hallucinated reports, worst case you get something that wreaks havoc on the database because it just spits out garbage SQL.

I’m very glad that my role doesn’t involve that BS.

I make software for iron mining.

FORMALDEHYDE FACE!

My job is mostly thinking and pushing buttons.

Oh no, absolutely essential but not essential enough to deserve respect, be paid a living wage, or require good working conditions. Just essential to my comfort.

Is it an open standard?

I think it fits. It’s about as agile as a brick, and Microsoft tries really hard to make it look friendly and approachable.