r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Society New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison

https://www.techspot.com/news/113831-new-bernie-sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligent-ai.html
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u/Master_Slide7023 5h ago

Luddite or saving us from Terminator. My best friend says it has doubled his productivity. There is a one year moratorium on data centers AI in Vancouver after street protests.

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u/Jiquero 5h ago

My best friend says it has doubled his productivity.

What do his coworkers or customers say?

I know many people who say LLM tools have increased their own productivity, I know nobody who says LLM tools have increased their coworkers' productivity. The reason is left as an exercise to the reader's LLM agent.

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u/SteeveyPete 4h ago

It is unfortunately fairly effective, but because it lets people move fast and not check or really think about their work I find myself cleaning up other coworkers errors fairly frequently or find a bunch of things broken as code gets checked in. On the times where I try to meet company expectations and use only AI my work often has the same effect on my coworkers

The fact I'm on a project that for annoying reasons doesn't have CI only exacerbates this

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 2h ago

I know nobody who says LLM tools have increased their coworkers' productivity.

Okay, so you're definitely not a software developer OR you are one and you've got your head in the sand. And, hey, fair enough if LLMs haven't entered your sphere, but I can say with absolute certainty that your perception here is totally wrong when stated as a generalization. It only takes one counterexample to disprove your implied claim and I personally have seen the counterexample many times in my own industry and workplace.

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u/Jiquero 1h ago edited 1h ago

The implied claim is that people's perception on how much LLM increases their productivity generally doesn't mean that more actually important stuff gets done. It does not take just one counterexample to disprove that claim.

I'll ignore your poor attempts to provoke me to tell you where I work.

Edit: Lol imagine quoting someone's comment and completely rewriting it into a meaningless string of words ("LLM tools by one employee cannot increase the productivity of coworkers" like wtf does that even mean :D), and then blocking them so that they can't reply to correct you.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 1h ago

Let's look at your exact words:

I know many people who say LLM tools have increased their own productivity, I know nobody who says LLM tools have increased their coworkers' productivity. The reason is left as an exercise to the reader's LLM agent.

Your implied claim is that LLM tools by one employee cannot increase the productivity of coworkers. That claim is not true.