News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT. Parent comment

Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by bjackman on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:51AM (#39464381)
I don't a the problem with this communication, except they just shouldn't call it a "postmortem".

In a medical setting this is equivalent to saying "the patient was coughing up blood, and now they're dead". It's relaying some potentially useful info, and I guess it's _technically_ a post-mortem analysis but it doesn't fit expectations for the phrase!

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by gtirloni on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:03AM (#39464458)
https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by bjackman on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:08AM (#39464484)
Yeah that's what I'm referring to. This isn't a postmortem as described in that book! This is just "it was broken, and then we fixed it". Which is fine, it's good to acknowledge that. Just don't call it a PM!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by tomas789 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:57AM (#39464423)
It is an industry standard word by now.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by mbel on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:04AM (#39464465)
Standard word which implies some level of analysis into causes of the incident. This brief note doesn’t live up to industry practice either.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by prmoustache on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:44AM (#39465061)
The standard imply analysis and measures taken for similar issues to not happen.
[ Parent | on HN ]