greasephalanges

Maybe it's my burnout speaking but one fact that frustrates me to no end is how our team essentially went through a 180 when it comes down to code comments (where a cynical me would say this is caused by AI that always loves to leave said comments)

Sometimes it's hard to differentiate whether it's a human, a robot, or a human whose mind is far gone. I can understand the sentiment of "the joy of programming is gone" but for me it's not from a personal lack of daily coding but from a surrounding dispassion towards the craft under the guise of better ergonomics or productivity. Never before is actual behavior irrelevant while the blame game when said behavior turns out to be wrong gets really sour very quickly.

This is more of a "in the hands of x" kind of situation where it's perhaps too early to make a general statement. But being constantly gaslit will definitely be the end of me some day, I can feel my sanity slipping.

and thank god for that. it would be a pity for the world to succumb to the abstraction hell.

to make my point clear, complexity is the enemy of security but complexity comes in all shapes and sizes, which includes the alleged solutions to it. I don't trust shortcuts.

True crime is that effeminate males are too shy to come out of the closet...

Women are perhaps the closest distant group that gets undeserved presuppositions thinly-veiled and anecdotal pseudoscience.

The point is that most non-labor intensive jobs don't have such a hard gender preference. Without the loss of generality, my family tree of Soviet citizens were able to be chemists, engineers, doctors, and now software devs just fine. I fail to recognise what IT or playing chess is different to warrant such a huge discrepancy, something doesn't add up.

The fact that discriminating is short-sighted when it come to employment tells me of a deprecated conceptual model that I doubt can truly be resolved through fixing IT alone,

to be blunt, the problem is old because the actions are ineffective.

Instead of being efficient and creating some anti-apology prompt, I always respond along the lines of

Me:

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"Great attempt, but can you <elaborate on ___ a bit further?>"

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ChatGPT:

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Of course! [...]

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Usually, by providing a short complement "sets the mood" of the conversation making the generated response. As a human being, I can see how this eats away ~2 tokens in boththe prompt and response, and should be improved.

My suspicion is that this sort of introduction is nearly hard-coded into the machine. I would suggest trying to use a setup prompt if one were to speak the words of encouragement to be clear of any suspicion that the prompter may be irritated by an incorrect response.