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Re: ChatGPT Is Down

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Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

It kind of already happens to devs when Jira or GitHub goes down. These tools are part of the core process of software delivery for many dev teams.

When the forklift breaks, you can't load the truck.

Re: ChatGPT Is Down

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post #25
post #21

Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

Solution: drink coffee

Works every time!

Edit: apparently not based on the sibling comment.

Re: ChatGPT Is Down

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post #21

Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

A variation of this is exposed brilliantly in the South Park episode "You call the handyman". Gave me some solace.

Re: ChatGPT Is Down

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post #10
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well now you learned you should always record demos. Live demos are always going to fail.

In general I agree with you, but sometimes the “live”ness of demos is essential. I’ve given quite a few presentations about LLMs over the past year and a half, often to audiences unfamiliar with or doubtful about them. Being able to have on-the-spot, unplanned interactions with an LLM has been very useful for showing listeners that they are not just preprogrammed algorithms. But I’m giving another demonstration in a…

> In general I agree with you, but sometimes the “live”ness of demos is essential.

Yes, that's why you record a demo as a fallback for the live demo.

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