Oh ffs. One of my coworkers notes that if we don't use our ChatGPT account for 30 days at work we lose access to it, and everyone on my team is like, oh, yeah, no worries there I use it daily, and I wonder why people seem like they're losing their edge.
I never even signed up for a ChatGPT account at work.
@storybead are you sure that you aren't just missing it between all the ai slop?, maybe they are doing amazing work, that they are covering up with ai.
@ekg maybe so, maybe so. Maybe I should go ask ChatGPT if my coworkers are being efficient.
@storybead I mean if they are really offloading all work on OpenAI they are at least efficient with their own time and effort, depending on how much clean up they end up having to do.
@storybead I assume this tools using a negative value tool is still considered "engineers"?, as someone put it. "an engineer doesn't blame their tools, they also don't bring the wrong tool to the work site".
@ekg I work in computer system administration, so CS engineering adjacent. AI seems to have become the Swiss Army chainsaw and not a lot of critical thought is being put into the output it serves up.
@ekg they're offloading "why am I seeing this weird behavior" questions onto AI and posting the answers in our chat channel without bothering to actually check and then 10 minutes later coming back with, "oh, nevermind, a quick Google search shows that ChatGPT was wrong."