Computer toucher, wannabe author, mediocre photographer, knows how to scribble a pen on a touchpad sometimes, general idiot. she/they 🏳️⚧️
Almost Ordinary - Cassie ✨
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst)
J. L. Westover
I get that's not what shareholders and investors like to hear, but as engineers we have an ethical responsibility to use the most efficient, safest, and cost-effective form of technology to solve a problem, rather than throwing an LLM at it and calling it a day.
Hey cis people: instead of spending today going "ohhh woooow you people are soooooo braaave" while forgetting to cancel your HBO Max subscription or whatever, why not participate in today's most delicious of festivities?
DID YOU? DID YOU KNOW?
me: waiter, waiter! more kul tirans, please!
the kts:
The technology for this already exists, it's called "building a nice UI with a solid API backing it", and you wouldn't need to use AI to do it. Reading the room and thinking "maybe using slop tech might rile up a huge chunk of our user base for little to no gain" would've been a good idea?
Almost Ordinary - Cassie ✨
For what it's worth, my job involves building software and architecture and we do use AI tooling, but the very first step in our process is always "is this a problem we *need* AI to solve or can we use traditional methods?", and more often than not, it's not actually required.
