We built an exceedingly polite AI dog that answers questions about your APIs

[eob]

I know we're all suffering exhaustion from all things GPT, all the time, but the new possibilities that keep popping up continue to amaze me.

I would far rather ask AWS: "Which ALB threw the error for the request to /foo/bar" than figure out how to put the dots together and discover myself.

[lettergram]

I’m not exhausted at all.

Unlike the NFT craze, there’s actually something here haha I can use it right now and do it

[notyourwork]

The dev ops potential is inspiring. Log diving can be so frustrating/cumbersome/tedious.

[KyeRussell]

I’m tired of all the threads of interesting and viable-looking use cases being bombarded by the same contrarian armchair philosophers offering an unsolicited lecture about how LLMs don’t provide value because they aren’t conscious, or whatever.

Keep this stuff coming!

[maltalex]

This may be a matter of personal preference, but I find the style of the replies annoying.

When I'm trying to get something done I don't want a bot telling me what a splendid day it is. I could be 7 layers deep into some rabbit hole with an entire stack of things in my head. Just give me a concise, accurate response.

[buggy6257]

I agree a lot with this. I’ve probably spent more time crafting system prompts to find ways to avoid it doing this. As far as I can tell the best way so far has been to say something like “you are a terse helpful AI who responds in 100 words or less”. The lack of extra words to work with forces the bot to focus hard on exactly the answer I asked for because that’s the part that is useful to me and therefore rewarded.

[textninja]

Seconded! If there’s anywhere we can cut the superfluous social fakery it’s with an AI that obviously doesn’t give two hoots about us or how our day’s been going so far. I found its replies stylistically tedious.

[splatzone]

Absolutely agree. It reminds me of all the cute copy I'd read in web apps in 2008. No, a fatal error message is not the time to be cute

[taspeotis]

Sometimes my wife asks me to edit correspondence for her, and I spend a good chunk of time deleting pleasantries.

Personally I try and think of "signal to noise ratio" and also respecting the recipient's time when communicating with them.

Of course it's not good to be terse to the point of being rude.

[iudqnolq]

If you wanted a concise, accurate response you could look at the URL and the chart, rather than the AIs guess at what they mean.

[kjgkjhfkjf]

4XX errors typically indicate client issues e.g. requesting a non-existent resource. The AI dog should be more concerned about 5XX errors, which indicate server issues e.g. being unavailable.

[pixl97]

But why is the client asking for a missing resource, commonly you can find some asset of yours linking to that missing item. These days you can have a bot chase that down and give you a damned good idea on a proper fix.

[charliea0]

This is so cool. I can imagine a very fun future of semi-reliable digital assistants attached to every service or tool.

[verdverm]

It's probably better to have your own that can work across services. Most queries and problems involve multiple sites or services, so having your AI assistant work above them makes sense.

I suspect this is where Google and Microsoft are heading.

[VWWHFSfQ]

I'm really enjoying using ChatGPT as-is but I fear that all these jailbreakers are just going to force them to turn it off.

[snacktaster]

People always ruin everything just for the fun of it. Use it while you can. I doubt chat gpt is going to be around for much longer.

[doitLP]

I can’t help feeling like sand running through my fingers. All the low hanging fruit applications for GPT are getting taken by companies fortuitously in place to take advantage of the them.

It feels like the stock market: by the time you hear something about a company it’s already been priced in.

It feels like the only way to be ahead is to get in on the action early, make your millions and then not have to worry about getting displaced out of the workforce in 1-15 years.

[phphphphp]

The majority of work we do now, even in skilled professions, is busy work. How much of the work you do each day is unique and novel? How much of your work could have either been automated or made unnecessary long before ChatGPT? Probably most of it. We’ve long since been able to do less work and yet we continue to do the same things over and over again. Even if ChatGPT can magically do everything for us, what evidence is there that we would take advantage of it? World hunger is a trivial problem to solve given the resources we have today and yet we apparently can’t be bothered to fix that extremely low hanging fruit — why would we buck that trend by radically rethinking knowledge work… because of an LLM?

If LLMs were enough to radically change knowledge work, we already wouldn’t be wasting our lives grinding out 40 hours a week so we can retire at 65.

[atleastoptimal]

The best way to get ahead of big companies is to pursue an angle that seems too silly, obvious, pointless or worthless for them to entertain devoting resources to.

Every billion dollar company around today started in an environment where the big boys in the industry they disrupted called it "stupid".

[spacebanana7]

Something similar happened with mobile. Established businesses in banking, social media and e-commerce were already well positioned on day 0 to make billions.

[jb12]

Have you tried asking chatGPT if there are any novel applications using chatGPT that you could develop?

[angryredblock]

Is this Clippy for Grafana?

[ss108]

There seem to be literally 0 pics of dogs on that webpage

[eurasiantiger]

Did they tell it to write in Victorian style so it would be more polite?

[kykeonaut]

This would be great to visualize the carbon footprint of your infrastructure.

[andrewxdiamond]

Just don’t think too hard about the carbon footprint of that ChatGPT bot