It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

Re:It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN by Lendal on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:41PM (#35703964)

I know exactly where you're coming from. I've tried to avoid the hype train but I still feel the hot wind from it because I literally had my manager ask me if I could use ChatGPT to do my last project faster. I was astounded. It's tough when you know a dumb idea is not going to work, but now you have to articulate exactly why to your manager, without insulting them. Also without wasting a lot of valuable time proving something won't work, when you could be using that time to make actual progress on the project.

I feel like a lot of valuable time is going to be wasted by engineers trying to prove to managers why ChatGPT can't do a certain thing they want done faster. I don't believe ChatGPT will be a net negative for the world, but it won't be as positive as it could be exactly because of the hype effect.

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Re:It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN by roflyear on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:50PM (#35705725)

One thing I learned, is you probably should not come across as someone who says "no" a lot to their manager - if you like working where you do in general. Ask open and positive questions, like "that could be a good idea, where do you think we can use it?" (or find even a better phrasing for this, managers are often very defensive, especially when they are not very skilled) rather than "how do you think that would work?" which is often my first response... hah!

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