As I delved into Ludicity’s thought-provoking blog post, “I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, I found myself nodding along and smiling at each paragraph. The author’s candid words struck a chord with me, as they so eloquently captured the frustration and confusion that can come from discussing artificial intelligence (AI) in today’s world.
Read the full article if you have time, some snippets.
Most Orgs can’t Ship
Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you’re out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for, when the organization has never used a GPU for anything other than junior engineers playing video games with their camera off during standup, and even if you do that all right there is a chance that the problem is simply unsolvable due to the characteristics of your data and business? This isn’t a recipe for disaster, it’s a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course f*****g catastrophe.
On RAG’s and Code Review
Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don’t actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.
If another stupid m********r asks me to try and implement LLM-based code review to “raise standards” instead of actually teaching people a shred of discipline, I am going to study enough judo to throw them into the goddamn sun.
No Middle Ground
You either need to be on the absolute cutting-edge and producing novel research, or you should be doing exactly what you were doing five years ago with minor concessions to incorporating LLMs. Anything in the middle ground does not make any sense unless you actually work in the rare field where your industry is being totally disrupted right now.
Highly recommend to read the original article.
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