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0 pointsHumblyTossed2y ago0 comments

> Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.

Gonna be similar (or worse) to what happens when Github goes down. It amazes me how quickly people have come to rely on "AI" to do their work for them.

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sitzkrieg2y ago

if github goes down you cannot merge prs etc, literally blocking "work" so this is a stretch

Smaug1232y ago

Not really true - Git is distributed, after all. During an outage once I just hosted my copy of a certain Git repo somewhere. You can always push the history back up to the golden copy when GitHub comes back.

sitzkrieg2y ago

i am not talking about git, i am talking about github. lets say i need to merge a PR in GH because use gha pipelines or what have you to deploy a prod fix. this would become severely blocked.

where as if openai goes down i can no longer use ai to generate a lame cover letter or whatever i was avoiding actually doing anyway, thats all

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0 pointsHumblyTossed2y ago0 comments

> Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.

Gonna be similar (or worse) to what happens when Github goes down. It amazes me how quickly people have come to rely on "AI" to do their work for them.

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sitzkrieg2y ago

if github goes down you cannot merge prs etc, literally blocking "work" so this is a stretch

Smaug1232y ago

sitzkrieg2y ago

i am not talking about git, i am talking about github. lets say i need to merge a PR in GH because use gha pipelines or what have you to deploy a prod fix. this would become severely blocked.

where as if openai goes down i can no longer use ai to generate a lame cover letter or whatever i was avoiding actually doing anyway, thats all

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