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<p>Agreed on the extremes point.</p>
<p>GenAI represents a major shift in technology, just like the pen
replaced the quill, the car replaced the horse, the PC replaced
the terminal, and the Internet replaced <insert huge list
here>.<br>
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<p>I've been involved in so many arguments from technophobes who
refuse to acknowledge this shift despite compelling evidence:</p>
<p>1. Businesses are spending billions of dollars in development of
GenAI.</p>
<p>2. I just attended a week-long GenAI Symposium put on by the most
technophobic industry on the planet: Writers and publishers. The
industry that despises GenAI the most is beginning to embrace it.</p>
<p>3. My boss at work told the team at the end of last year, "If you
can do your job in your sleep, we're going to replace you with
GenAI. You need to skill up or move out." Sadly, we have many folk
who are biological robots and would cheerfully follow a script to
troubleshoot customer issues. What I'll be doing in the second
half of the year is investigating using GenAI to handle common
technical support queries in a chatbot.<br>
</p>
<p>We just rescued yet another guy from some Big Bank whose job was
extremely limiting, and he just finished his second week with us.
After reviewing our documentation, he asked some really good
questions. Questions that nobody has ever asked before. Yay - not
a mindless biobot!!!<br>
</p>
<p>The biobot's lifespan is coming to an end. Ya gotta be able to
think. The alternate view would be... How do I get my people to
the point where they can solve complex problems if GenAI is going
all the low-level troubleshooting? How do they get experience?</p>
<p>A brave new world is on the horizon.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,
George Toft</pre>
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<div dir="auto">But I do lean pretty hard on ChatGPT-4o for this
Python script I use at work. I could have scaffolded it on my
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<div dir="auto">I just added some new functionality today, that
when a job status is anything except "running, or pending" it
does a GET request to save the job logs for me, which saves me
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