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    • lefaucet@slrpnk.netEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      Dogs will do it for belly rubs and $20 in kibble

      I think the issue is LLMs can’t do a humans job, only be a tool for a human to use. And the tasks it’s good at weren’t large bottlenecks to begin with.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          That’s a lot of words just to reiterate what OC said. None of your examples disagree with the fact that these companies are using AI for a ton of stuff they’re not good at. And the stuff it is good at are not bottlenecks. If you removed LLMs from the face of the planet today, code quality will not suffer significantly. Sure, doing code review en masse is good. But that is not what was holding back computer programming. It’s existence is not progressing software in any significant way either. It’s a nice to have, not a must have. Code was fine for four decades without LLMs. Indeed it makes me wonder, if a machine learning model was purpose made to do code review, instead of general purpose LLMs doing it, how much better it could be, if we actually leveraged what they’re good at.

            • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              4 months ago

              Comparing code bugs to cholera. Nice way to be utterly disconnected from reality and what really matters in life. Let’s burn the planet down and waste all of our clean water because of code review.

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      Some businesses already have. Take Ford for example.

      Edit: I guess they’re not being hired back because they’re “cheaper”, but rather because AI couldn’t effectively do their job. I suppose that turns out to be cheaper in the long run.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      We are getting there - with 4,33 weeks a month that’s $866 a month in AI costs. You may get a programmer for that in some offshore countries

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        The vetting for those offshore programmers ain’t worth it tbh.

        How many will you go through till you get a competent one? I worked at a company with an office in India and… Maybe 20% of the staff there were gifted and hardworking, 80% were a net detriment to the product we were building.

        The office was closed. I hope they kept on the people who were actually good as remote employees but I have no idea.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Yeah, regardless of what one’s stance on AI generated code is, it’s a very useful tool for catching anything you might’ve missed.

            Of course it can also be great at getting stuck on red herrings lol. That’s why I gave up on Mistral

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    I would have thought they’d get access to xAI’s models for very cheap.

    Grok really isn’t that good, though. So few people use it that xAI are renting out most of their AI servers to both Anthropic and Google.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Make the employees run the AI on their computers instead of a data center

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    103·
    4 months ago

    Ai spend

    If the ‘journalist’ uses salesbro jargon, the only thing I want from them is a deal on this used Buick.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I occasionally will use the output from an AI that got generated when I did a Google search. But I can’t imagine I’d ever be willing to pay for that.