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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

When coding (my main job since lot of years) I like to use LLMs for brainstorming, reviewing my code for the "quickly visible" errors etc. Oh, and I found out LLMS are not bad explaining query plans and suggesting optimizations for SQL queries in PostgreSQL. I feel the older a technology is (when there's a lot of reference materials available) the better LLMs are with those topics.

But don't put them to the task of suggesting something on new tech or creative. They lie without blushing. And in the end you just get a "Good Catch, that can't really work" for wasting your time.

I think you need to get a feel for what they can and can't do. In any event all the shit they are being pushed for - that will "go well". Ah recently, I saw claude or so being able to edit exel sheets. Yep. Combine the most untestable tool guilty of producing tons of false data with LLMs. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!?! Users blindly asking the llm to do stuff in excel and then just betting their companies on the results....

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Microsoft just had a push for CoPilot in Excel. Its own promotional material said that for the tasks it was most suited to it had a success rate of 56%. For other tasks the success rate was 20%.

Imagine relying on that for anything even halfway important.