• msage@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    We’ve just had survey at work about genAI, a large part of the devs use Linux and LLMs, yet nobody could explain how genAI works.

    I was very surprised.

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      3 days ago

      It’s inferences derived from pattern recognition of large data sets! Jesus, it’s not hard!

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        3 days ago

        But even senior devs don’t know that.

        I’ve seen a senior describe the chatbot as ‘expert senior colleague to discuss ideas with’.

        Which is horrifying. Cause that’s the most wrong take there could be.