Detla pee is no joke

Tracking tokens not tokes

It not being consistent also adds to this.

"Same exact input in same exact situation next time can have completely different output" is just unacceptable in automation.

A huge amount of why normal office workers like using AI, in my opinion, is that they never learned how make even simple scripts which would have helped them in a lot of their tasks.

Most office workers do not have the access rights and programs to run scripts. I know how to write them, but there is no way that local IT would allow me to run python on my work machine.

My need for control/understanding stuff I create

And that is really important from a mental health perspective: People are being held responsible for their work. If something does break that they've built, their boss & coworkers expect that they are able to fix it and that the error will not happen again. If you understand your system, you are able to do that. If you are responsible for some kind of AI-driven house of cards that you do not understand and can't fix, that is really bad. It's triggering some kind of imposter syndrome

Um ... NORPs don't use AI to code. They use it to think for them. And mostly they don't think about code.

If you exported your support ticket database and your customer feedback to CSV files, upload that to a chatbot, cross-reference it, ask it the right questions, structure the output, it could tell you everything going right and wrong with your customer base. Backed up with data. And it could do that in like 10 minutes. Instead of weeks of research.

Problem is, you (or whoever reads tickets), are going to miss the details. You won't read that one heartbreaking story. You won't see the success. You'll have an insightful (if you are good with prompts) summary. That's it.

Secondary (or perhaps this is the big one) problem is that the more you let the machine think for you, the less thinking you do. It makes you dumb.

Better information control no human to leak it no Hunan in the loop more human labor fungibility its the best

Reminds me of some funny old posts on r/sysadmin of greybeards who had essentially automated their entire jobs and life in perl lol.

Best one was a script that would auto text message his wife he would be coming home late if he still had an active terminal session.

There was a recent post around here or reddit that was about management trying to gauge performance via AI use, and how they had caught on to the token spending tricks people were using, but honestly it doesn't seem that hard to fake around it if it ever came up.

Just throw some agent work at it like codex and watch it burn tokens running grep lol.

Yeah, doesn’t bother me. I’ll just leave it crunching a boring problem while I go away and make a cup of tea or chat some shit.

I must be lucky—I’ve run into free drugs heaps of times in my life! It helps having a long phase as an outgoing rave kid.

This is why I always laughed around Halloween when the news tries to scare people that drugs are being put into candy.

Drug dealers aren't exactly known for just handing out product for free.

Fuk, I'd have just taken the fried eggs. That looked pretty good.
But I got nuthin.

Drugs became way less cool when they switched to the token system.

And sexy felines.

You lied to me!