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Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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So currently we are only shipping rock solid code? That would be news to me.

I mean, obviously not, but we are experienced (more important, because we actually understand CS, computers, networking, etc. at least the competent engineers anyway) and knowledgeable enough to have robust testing, monitoring & observability and alerting, and mitigation strategies in place.

Yes, but not really everyone is using these tools today.

And sure, the amount of garbage code that sometimes works, will increase with more people getting into it with the help of AI.

And critical systems will continue to need experts. And every other project that seems important, but does not run anymore, because no one understands the code.

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Have you tried removing your brain and trying again? Jk but I feel like i have to really try hard to sound “dumb” when I ask gpt4 to do anything complex. If I put any words that are kinda technical or specific it ends up misunderstanding completely. I think because we are highly technical it’s like diminishing returns for us. For a total noob it’s like opening Pandora’s box. We are gonna have a ton of shitty insecure…

Yes, you have to ask dumb, but still include the right buzzwords. I used it succesfully for generating some math functions, that I could have done myself, but in longer time. And friends of mine use it for .. producing text. Because they don't like writing and surprisingly many people don't. So for me I am faster writing it myself, but I happen to like it and do and did it a lot. But for other people it is actually p…

I’ve tried using to for text as well. Generally the writing is so poor and devoid of meaning that I’m too embarrassed to pass it off as my own.

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post #53

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Yes, you have to ask dumb, but still include the right buzzwords. I used it succesfully for generating some math functions, that I could have done myself, but in longer time. And friends of mine use it for .. producing text. Because they don't like writing and surprisingly many people don't. So for me I am faster writing it myself, but I happen to like it and do and did it a lot. But for other people it is actually p…

I’ve tried using to for text as well. Generally the writing is so poor and devoid of meaning that I’m too embarrassed to pass it off as my own.

That's my feeling as well, but you are also here writing comments, likely making you one of the people who enjoy writing. People who don't have different standards ..

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Somebody who knows absolutely nothing about a language can also copy and paste together a working solution. I'd trust that about as much as something ChatGPT spit out.

Somebody who knows absolutely nothing don't know what to search for to end up on the correct stack-overflow to copy and paste. If they know what result they want, they can iterate with an LLM as the guide.

I could literally google "how to sort a list in brainfuck" and copy and paste a solution right now. I specifically said somebody who doesn't know the language, not somebody who knows nothing.

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First, use Creative/Precise. Second, use /no-search or #nosearch and it won't search and will give proper GPT4 "offline" answers. But anyway, the internet search is pretty useful, it's one of the few things from Microsoft that I expect that he might use (that and Office).

For me, a non-American, Bing Chat is totally useless. Every time I wanted it to help me with a search for some country-specific thing, no matter if I ask it in English or my language, it returns results about the USA.

Are you sure the Bing settings are right? You can change the page results language, and I guess it affects the chat answers... It's fine here in Brazil.

Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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More work for consultants and clean up crews.

Hmm, so as someone working in security testing and finding basic access control lacking in multi-user systems I do not have anything to fear for long time. Not to even mention subtler bugs...

Charge extra to fix AI created software.

Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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From the linked Wired article[0]

> Microsoft is 48 years old. I don't know of many companies that age that are relevant not because they did something in the '80s or the '90s or the 2000s but because they did something in the last couple of years.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/microsofts-satya-nadella-is-bett...

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