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0 pointsem-bee12h ago0 comments

behaving like a human is not the problem. behaving unpredictably is. not doing what i expect, or rather not being able to define what i can expect is what's bothering me.

but the real kicker is: getting frustrated creates stress, that's unhealthy and makes for a hostile work environment. as much as i sympathize with the idea that AI tools can be more helpful than they cause pain, i am simply not interested in working in a hostile painful work environment. my health and my dignity are not up for negotiation. even if that costs me a lot of job opportunities.

that's also why i am not working with windows. that too costs me a lot of job opportunities. but again, i'd rather keep my dignity and my sanity.

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Andrex5h ago

> behaving like a human is not the problem. behaving unpredictably is.

Not sure you can have one without the other.

em-beeOP1h ago

humans are way more predictable than AI. not predictable in the mathematical sense, but in the trust sense, that when i ask a human to do something, they will do it in the way i taught them. and if they don't, i can correct them and they will learn and adapt. it's not perfect, but there is progress. even if they do something different from what i want, they will keep doing it that way until they learn a different way. AI is entirely random in the ways it goes wrong.

so when i say a human is predictable, i mean that a human will do their best to follow instructions, and they will generally not repeat mistakes.

a human that refuses to listen, and doesn't learn will be fired for being unsuitable for the work i expect them to do. in that sense i tried working with AI and i decided to fire them because they don't meet my expectations.

mrweasel10h ago

> that's also why i am not working with windows

Oh good, so it's not just me. Windows is weird, my hand starts cramping up and I start getting angry pretty quickly when I use it.

For LLMs, I just can't use them, they aren't there yet for me. What I need is for an LLMs to say "stop, you're clearly doing something wrong, talk me through what it is you want to do". The current generation of LLMs seems designed to piss me off.

21asdffdsa125h ago

But they behave predictable- if you think of it not as a conversation, but any conversation you ever saw on the internet, on all possible worlds. Every stackoverflow post, every github issue. And your reply, your tone, picks between this many worlds.

If you become the master, it becomes the pupil, if you become the pupil, it attempts to scholar you. You can see it in the tone it takes, where you are in this canyon system.

So, your goal is to bring the conversation to the language of the pros, who regularly war with reason and language, over topics that determinate who gets to eat or not. Academia prompts for the win..

streetfighter6410h ago

Incredibly privileged take to claim that using Windows is somehow beneath your "dignity". Do you have any idea at all of the kinds of jobs people are doing in the real world?

Imagine the daycare worker taking care of your kids or the truck driver bringing your food saying "getting frustrated creates stress, that's unhealthy and makes for a hostile work environment".

antonvs8h ago

I didn't see them say anything about dignity. They said using Windows makes them angry, which is understandable. That speaks to a poor user experience design. Framing it as a privilege issue is blaming the victim.

streetfighter648h ago

"The victim" of using a certain operating system? Please.

Being lucky enough to work in a comfortable air-conditioned office, AND having the luxury of declining jobs sorely because the operating system makes you angry, is the height of privilege.

Stop feeling sorry for yourselves and realize how good you have it.

> I didn't see them say anything about dignity.

The word dignity was used twice in the comment I replied to...

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