[byoung2]

My skip manager started asking for weekly status reports so my manager started pulling Jira reports and feeding them to ChatGPT. It turns out that my skip manager was using Copilot to summarize those reports into basically what you could get directly from Jira.

[hliyan]

I've seen this happen in emails too:

"Recent outage was due to a retry loop for the Foo API exceeding rate limits. We're implementing a backoff algo"

Sender, via ChatGPT:

Hi,

I wanted to provide more context regarding the recent outage.

The issue was triggered by a retry loop in the Foo API integration. When the API began returning errors, our system initiated repeated retry attempts without sufficient delay, which quickly exceeded the rate limits imposed by the API provider. As a result, requests were throttled, leading to degraded service availability.

To address this, we are implementing an exponential backoff algorithm with jitter. This approach will ensure that retries are spaced out appropriately and reduce the likelihood of breaching rate limits in the future. We are also reviewing our monitoring and alerting thresholds to detect similar patterns earlier.

We’ll continue to monitor the system closely and share further updates as improvements are rolled out.

Best regards,

Receiver, via ChatGPT:

"The outage was caused by excessive retry attempts to the Foo API, which triggered rate limiting and degraded service. To prevent recurrence, exponential backoff with jitter is being implemented"

[nullc]

Would be a nice fine tuning target: training to close that loop.

[Terr_]

Recycling a prediction from a year ago:

> Ultimately a lot of this generative tech stuff is just counterfeiting extra signals people were using to try to guess at interest, attentiveness, intelligence, etc.

> So yeah, as those indicators become debased, maybe we'll go back to sending something [...] all boiled down to bullet points.

[hamburga]

This is how society collapses and OpenAI wins.

[daxfohl]

It's already started, with AI resume spamming on one side and the associated AI assisted screening on the other. "Deep research" generated funding requests on one side and associated AI generated funding request summarization on the other.

[hamburga]

Also see Commandment 7 - https://muldoon.cloud/2023/10/29/ai-commandments.html

[whiplash451]

Funny how encoder-decoder architectures have led to decoder-encoder behaviors.

[ctkhn]

This is the kind of thing my manager and skip manager are up to. Most of our jira tickets now are written as a random jumble of ideas, fed into internal proprietary LLM and then turned into jira description and acceptance criteria. Totally pointless

[david38]

Wow. Full circle