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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 19:14:26 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Baldur Bjarnason

   @baldur “WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?”

   Bingo!

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 19:14:27 JST Baldur Bjarnason

     JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.

     WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?

     Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?

     And therapy? Just… 😑

     What’s wrong with people in tech?

     Thomas 🔭🕹️, pettter and Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) repeated this.
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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:15:12 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     I follow these people because their advice on software and web dev is usually sound, but wow, so many people in tech are off-the-rails and into the weeds in their arrogant and utter disregard for the expertise required for any of the fields they are regard as “soft”, “humane”, or (unsurprisingly) feminine.

     Much of the talk surrounding “AI” easily replacing all of these jobs is just pure mask-off inhumane.

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:18:11 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Baldur Bjarnason
     @baldur they don't really believe it, they just want to keep the investor craze going. It's the new bubble. Gotta keep inflating.
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     John Girvin (nivrig@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:04:04 JST John Girvin

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     • Baldur Bjarnason

     @baldur TBF a lot of us tech people cringe just as hard at the Sparkling Autocorrect hype machine.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:04:04 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • John Girvin

     @nivrig @baldur
     Yeah, “in tech” is doing a lot of work there. There’s the wheeler-dealer con jugglers who were pushing cryptocurrency before this, there’s the fanboys who live for game console upgrades, and then there’s us engineers who are about as skeptical and salty about technology as one human on this earth.