> - got the OK to feed entire repos and proprietary information into ChatGPT without a care because “we got the pro version”<p>> Our main product is CRUD app that is designed like something straight out of 2010, complete with outdated frameworks<p>If it's a small startup with a simple CRUD app, why this a problem? 99% startups die from lack of execution, not because someone stole their proprietary secrets or source code.
> CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”.<p>My partner let go two people and replaced them with ChatGPT. No joke.<p>It can accelerate many business tasks e.g. copywriting, customer service, proof-reading, product design exploration, marketing campaigns etc.<p>And its ability to do all of this in multiple languages and in different tones can be a really big deal for some businesses.
> They really think AI is this magic thing that will fix over a decade of no documentation, spaghetti code, and unclear requirements.<p>One of my favorite bosses loved to say, "You can't software your way out of a process problem." Several times I've had other bosses try to prove that wrong. None so far have succeeded.
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Clearly a visionary leader.<p><pre><code> - CTO says he wants live examples of ChatGPT “making us code faster”
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Honestly where are you, a kindergarten? So-called 'leaders' with this attitude deserve a slap (in rhetorical terms) IMHO.
I like to think that all the quantillion crypto mining computations were somehow a cover for the training of an ELLM that is now seeding LLMs to hide its existence.<p>And that still makes more sense than this bs.
I was more skeptical with ChatGPT but started paying for it. For better or worse, my company/team uses documents for communication, and it helps me automate the boring stuff - word smithing and clarifying ambiguity.<p>The flip side of this is those will be summarized with AI for those who don’t care about the fluff. The world is doomed to expansion and compression in this way.<p>Also, just like the switch to digital cameras from film, my role in writing a document transitions to editor from careful composer.
I don’t know what to make of stuff like this.<p>On the one hand, AI in its present form is a great learning tool, and little else. So you’d call the CEO a fool.<p>On the other hand, you have the leading AI firm publicly devoting 1/5th of its resources on controlling AI and declaring that we will likely have Superintelligence within this decade.<p>If the latter is right, this CEO might be a genius who was early on a trend, instead of a kook.
This post reads like a neoluddite AI-skeptic trashing someone for trying new things. Every CEO should be trying to automate human tasks with AI right now--not to fire all the humans, but to increase their efficiency. Good on your CEO for trying. Sounds like they've largely failed to execute, which is a valid thing to criticize, but at least they're trying. The CEO of my company has also been trying, and we've done some really cool things.<p>I've been hearing a lot of AI criticism lately from folks who clearly haven't gotten deep with GPT-4, like geohot/George Hotz's recent interview on the Lex Friedman podcast. There are a ton of valid things to criticize about AI and LLMs, but I've built things with GPT-4 that are incredibly impactful for our business--a tool to turn a Zendesk ticket thread into internal and external support guides, for example. Yes, there are limitations. But sticking your head in the ground saying "it's all a parlor trick" won't age well.