Post #2779887

2026-05-16 04:33 UTC

I have figured out where my intense dislike of using AI comes from. My need for control/understanding stuff I create. I find the idea of giving up knowledge and skills in favor of statistics based chatbot to be repulsive and extremely dangerous. I am no systems developer, I am an IT guy, I write some Powershell from time to time to automate stuff, I understand the code, if I didn’t, I would not run it on prod. 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. And now they use AI to make a computer kinda guess what they wanted, but with no way to verify the code before running it. I honestly can’t understand why companies/governments/institutions believe that a chatbot is better than a skilled and knowledgable developer.

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@dbtng@eviltoast.org 2026-05-16 05:20

Um … NORPs don’t use AI to code. The 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.

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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-05-16 07:31

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.

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@placebo@lemmy.zip 2026-05-17 12:24

I have figured out where my intense dislike of using AI comes from. My need for control/understanding stuff I create. AI doesn’t take that away from you though. You don’t have to outsource your job to an LLM, but you can use it to supplement your skills. People choose how to use AI, and while it’s true that many take the easy path - that’s totally on them.

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