ianmcnaney

PM: I am good at talking to people! Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you!?

Edit: Having been around for a while I’ve learned to appreciate PMs. You have to be very careful what you say in front of customers or focus groups. If you had two engineers and one customer chatting unsupervised it would turn into a brainstorming session, and after 45 minutes we’re building a flying police box that can travel through time.

People who are selling something always do. So what are you selling?

It's not totally useless. I have more productive conversations about my aquarium with copilot than I do with aquarium related subreddits, and the results are about as useful. I treat them as interesting anecdotes worthy of further research.

Do they? Try asking copilot whether thequantuminsider.com is a credible source, and to cite references.

It currently answers with three references to thequantuminsider.com.

That's clearly not a valid answer, and if you point out that it's invalid to use a source to support its own credibility it will agree. It used to come back with three more references to thequantuminsider.com but when I tried just now it said something about looking for more information and appeared to hang. After asking how long this would take it said something like "not long". After a few more minutes I said "there aren't any credible independent sources, are there?"

At that point it agreed that there are not, but that the site is popular in the quantum computing community which lends it credibility. It then provided three links to thequantuminsider.com in support of this statement.

It just goes round and round.

Metacognition indeed.

edit: but why do plants crave Brawndo?

Somebody who doesn’t want to understand DNS, Linux, or anything beyond their framework is a hazard. They’re not able to do a competent code review on the vomit that LLMs produce. (Am I biased much?)

Tell that to the Apollo program people. Maybe two parts that stick together in orbit could actually reach the moon. I guess we’ll never know..

Oh no, not that! Don’t cancel contracts for a useless, broken, overpriced launch system built by a company that famously forgot how to build airplanes with doors that stay attached while the autopilot forces it into a crash. The US needs more of that, for national insecurity!