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It’s fair to disagree. But “has never used these models” is an odd takeaway. I use them every day. The post wasn’t about replacing management with AI. It was about building systems around my own blind spots, which, as a neurodivergent person was something I was doing long before AI.

Long before AI it was notebooks, docs, recurring reminders, sticky notes… whatever worked. Now some of those systems use MCP. The tool changed. The philosophy didn’t.

I suppose that's what I'm getting at. Systems have existed long before LLMs. And they had varying levels of effectiveness. Maybe the point I didn't express well enough is both that LLMs aren't as effective as the article claims compared to these previous methods

While also destroying our environment, access to water, and access to electricity

And if, you were to claim that it is more effective than previous methods at preventing things going missing or lapses in management of your work or life, I would ask you to deeply audit your process. Our management has started to rely on LLMs to manage the release process, and we've never had more

I’m not using an LLM to make management decisions. I’m using it to aggregate information from Slack, Teams, email, docs, and GitHub that I’d otherwise spend a couple of hours collecting by hand. I still read it. I still verify it. I still make every decision.

You cannot possibly know that it is not rewording, overly paraphrasing, or straight up lying to you without directly validating the sources yourself. It does not copy and paste. It reads your documents, and does the best it can to regurgitate it and it has a faulty memory

At my job my direct manager has been using it to summarize teams conversations. And it mixes up products constantly. We nearly had a leak of a major feature for one customer, to their direct competitor (another customer of ours) because the LLM told him it was owned by the wrong customer

Maybe redirecting your frustrations so aggressively towards a stranger isn't the most constructive way to process your feelings about your current job. Big time projections happening here. We could be sympathetic that your management doesn't serve you well, but instead you are doing this.

It was directed at the github account but they quote posted it, so I followed :/

My guy... "this blog post was written by a flat out incompetent manager who is using it as a crutch instead of attempting self improvement" You called a living, breathing, well-known and well-liked human an incompetent manager. That's pretty "directed", unless you simply mean "I didn't @- them!".

That's why I'm upset at someone up high at GitHub personally, as well as github the company

You know GHE can be self hosted?

Yes, and we were on that until we spend a lot of money to switch from onprem to the GitHub hosted to support copilot code review, as it's unavailable for self hosted github

I am making no demands here, lol. If thinking that helps you feel better, go for it.