happy non-engineers will slowly transition into sad underpaid engineers
happy non-engineers will slowly transition into sad underpaid engineers
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/15545986
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I spoke to a friend the other day that wanted some help with his dev project. I was surprised since he isn't a dev and doesn't even have a job in a tech related field. He said he wanted to make a simple thing and was using AI prompts to just fuck about a bit till he had something working. But he ran into some issues and wanted me to give him some pointers to get on the right track.
My man wanted to create a "simple" kanban system. I almost fell of my chair as he explained what he was wanting to create. A non devver isn't going to create basically a Trello clone within a couple of hours and some AI prompts. He started with a frontend and got something hacked together which wasn't really working or a good base to work from. And hadn't even considered he would also need some kind of backend. He never heard of the difference between frontend and backend and just thought apps were apps that did it all.
I explained for what he wanted he would need a team of 15-20 to work for a couple of years to make something good. Not really a thing people do in their free time. I know your nephew created an "app" in a weekend in a hackaton, that doesn't mean the world of software development is suddenly different from how it's always been. He was bummed out, but was happy enough to just use Trello. And he could always keep fucking around with AI devving for fun, just don't expect anything useful to come out of it ever.
Peoples perspective on software development is so weird these days. Especially since AI has come along, people just expect magic.
My mother-in-law is a veterinarian and once she asked me to create an app that would tell people whether a particular animal hospital was a good place to take their pets or not. She thought it was just something I could write in an evening since the UI would be pretty simple. She had no conception of the need for, like, a database of pet hospitals and where that database would come from and how it would be maintained and updated.
Did she want some features that weren't part of Google/Apple maps / Yelp / etc?
If she's frustrated with user reviews being about nonsense I get it but that's a human problem, or at least not a system problem anyone's been able to solve yet.
Yeah, she didn't feel that online reviews were an accurate or reliable way to evaluate these places. She basically thought that every place but her own was a bucket of shit, so I probably could have actually given her what she wanted and just had the app give a thumbs down to everything except hers.
Why did you let him keep using Trello when there are so many FOSS alts?
This is not somebody who can self host anything or setup something for himself. I do not know of any FOSS kanban solutions that are available as a SaaS solution. The available Trello free functionality suits his needs. Is there something wrong with Trello? It's owned by Atlassian, which is an OK company I think?
If you have any good FOSS alternatives, I'd be happy to know about them and forward on the recommendation. But keep in mind most folk are not tech minded and won't get very far with just a Github page.
You can use issues and issue boards in the free tier of GitLab. Not sure if that counts.
Does the open source self hostable version have the kanban board feature? I need a kanban board with oauth support for my volunteer team, I can't afford any paid licenses that are usually priced for salaried employees. Git integration might also be a bonus as I am intending to manage my projects using git repositories
It does.
I mean I myself am not a dev, only did some programming in school but not like I would know how to program a backend or a frontend. 😅
I know even less about linux or networking but I setup an old laptop with LinuxMint and made a server out of it (I know LM isnt a good server OS but I am not good with the terminal, so thats the compronise I did). I now selfhost Jellyfin and some more stuff. I would probably be able to setup a trello like app in a afternoon, despite not being IT-trained
I would probably be able to setup a trello like app in a afternoon, despite not being IT-trained
😂
Wirh "set up" I mean selfhost, not develop. Thats not unreasonable, right? I installed jellyfin in a few with mounting drives and stuff, all with learning linux itself. So now selfhosting a further service is not that much of an effort. Of course it depends on the documentation and plug-and-play-readyness of the service
Are any of those FOSS alts actually as good as Trello?
That's a genuine question. I've been trying to find a trello replacement and so far I've had no real luck.
FocalBoard from MatterMost is pretty good. It doesn't have feature parity with Trello-- that's out of reach for almost everybody-- but it does pretty much everything I want. Plus it's FOSS, so you can extend it if you want (and are capable).
But it is like magic...? I copy in a bunch of tables etc. from a datasheet and get out code to read and write EEPROM. I use that to read the content of the old BMS and flash a new chip with it. The battery is now working again, after the BMS had a hardware fault in the ADC, destroying the previous pack of cells.
I ask for a simple frontend and I get exactly that. Now I can program ESP32s and perfectly control then via a browser. No me shit interface with some touch pins.
I ask for code to run a simulation on head transfer... answer after some back and forth that is what I get.
What will it be able to give me in 5 years when it is already like magic now?
nothing. It can only do that because someone already did and it was in their training set.
Stop spreading this. It clearly comes up with original things and does not just copy and paste existing stuff. As my examples could have told you, there is no such stuff on the Internet about programming some specific BMS from >10 years ago with a non-standard I2C.
Amazing how anti people are, even downvoting my clearly positive applications of this tool. What is you problem that I use that to save time? Some things are only possible due to the time saving to begin with. I am not going to freaking learn HTML for a one off sunrise alarm interface.
It "comes up with original things" unless working matters in any way.
If there wasn't information in its training set there would be no possibility it gave you anything useful.
Ah, there is "no possibility". So unlile everyone else so far you completely understand how LLMs works and as such an expert can say this. Amazing that I find such a world leading expert here in Lemmy but this expert does not want a Nobel prize and instead just correct random people on the Internet. Thank you so much.
For it to do something both novel and correct, it would require comprehension.
Nothing resembling comprehension in any way is part of any LLM.
when you ask them simple maths questions from around the time they were trained they got them all right. When they specifically prompted it with questions that provably were published one year later, albeit at the same difficulty, it got 100% wrong answers. You'd be amazed at what one can find on the internet and just how muqh scraping they did to gather it all. 10 years ago is quite recent. Why wouldn't there be documentation? (regardless of whether you managed to find it?) If it's non standard, then I would expect something that is specifically about it somewhere in the training set, whereas the standard compliant stuff wouldn't need a specific make and model to be mentioned.
GPT scores in the top 1% in creativity. There is no need to discuss this. Anyone can try. It is super easy to come up with a unique question. Be it with stacking items or anything else. It is not just copying existing info.
only if you deviate only slightly from their training set
lol, when they gave them mathematical problems that came out on exercise sites around the time they were trained, they got them all right. when they prompted with questions that came out a year later, so definitely not in the training set, it got them all wrong. What makes you think stuff can all be
The only thing the Luddites want is an echo-chamber to feed their confirmations bias'. They'll downvote you or completely ignore you if you bring up any positives regarding machine learning.
LLMs and machine learning are still in their infancy, yet they're doing amazing things. It's a tool in its early stages, not a boogeyman. Look to the billionaires if you want someone to blame. This tool set is advancing so fast that people in this thread are relying on goal posts that were moved long ago. Look at the guy claiming AI can't generate images of proper fingers yet this is no longer true and Midjourney continues to make an insane amount of progress in such a short amount of time.
Just look at how many people (50+) upvoted the image claiming AI can't be used to wash dishes, when a simple Google search would prove them wrong.
Not to mention... AI is helping physicists speed up experiments into supernovae to better understand the universe.
AI is helping doctors to expedite cancer screening rates.
AI is also helping to catch illegal fishing, tackle human trafficking, and track diseases.
Edit The laymen that responded couldn't even provide a single source for their unsubstantiated beliefs. It's fortunate that they're so inept.
LLMs are absolutely not in their infancy.
They're already many orders of magnitude past diminishing returns and don't scale up for shit.
there is literally a loaded die at the end of all generators. It is not part of the llm. It comes later down the pipeline. So not only diminishing returns, but the hallucinations are literally impossible to fix
That’s terrifying.
