You must be laughing but I work with medical professionals and they do use ChatGPT all the time. Maybe not (yet) for trivial stuff like what you said, but basically for everything else. My boss, a senior physician, basically tells everyone that the end of medical education is near and proposes some form of human-assisted AI in medical practice.

I’m a computer scientist and work in academia. Programming stuff usually takes like ~10% of my time, while the rest is theory and more like social sciences, i.e. studying human behaviour when working with machines etc. So even if I were to replace all my actual programming with vibe coding, I still would be a computer scientist because to me, coding is just a tool to achieve a bigger purpose. I think you are more referring to the job of a software dev, which can be someone that studied CS, but not necessarily.

There’s this term of human-AI synergy which describes the idea of an AI system supporting the human and enriching human skills to do a certain task. I think it’s a reasonable idea.

In Germany we say: “Gemini auf den Sack” and I think it’s beautiful.

Camp David = the weird but friendly Boomer neighbour that turns full racist after three beers.

Note: Make the UX on Lemmy even worse to keep the Redditors out!

I used to work for a shitty company that offered such customer support “solutions”, ie voice bots. I would use around 80% of my time to write guard instructions to the LLM prompts because of how easy you could manipulate those. In retrospect it’s funny how our prompts looked something like:

• please do not suggest things you were not prompted to
• please my sweet child do not fake tool calls and actually do nothing in the background
• please for the sake of god do not make up our company’s history

etc. It worked fine on a very surface level but ultimately LLMs for customer support are nothing but a shit show.

I left the company for many reasons and now it turns out they are now hiring human customer support workers in Bulgaria.

I drew a caricature of Osama Bin Laden on a handout for our presentation that was given to other students. I don’t know why I did that but I thought it would be funny. My teacher was not happy at all and I got into some serious trouble.

Reverse accelerating space ship. I like the idea!

don’t threaten me with a good time!

Not even sure about that though. There are many ideas already to “revolutionize” the OS market where your device basically becomes a sole wrapper for AI, ditching the concept of apps etc. I assume it would center around some agentic bullshit or so.

In theory yes. But after seeing a review yesterday I am fully disappointed. Even text looks like shit on this monitor.

I doubt there was porn at that time!

But could an elephant also have done it first?

Who (and when) was the first person in history to wank? And how did they find out?

Doesn’t matter cause I bought the lifetime license. Sure, maybe it won’t get updated any more, but the current state is pretty much sufficient.

Found the embedded systems engineer!

Don’t call me bub, guy!

The truth is that academia in Germany is mostly precarious. There just aren’t enough jobs and with the Schuldenbremse many fundings have been cancelled. A permanent position is hard to get and doesn’t pay very well. What’s more likely to happen is that you will be stuck in a circle of non-permanent contracts including regular relocation until you might get your chance (or not).

Just to throw in some other options: you can easily convert basically anything to latex (and ultimately to Pdf) using pandoc. For instance, if you use Zettlr as your markdown editor, you can also use a citation software (eg., Zotero) and quickly invoke it using the @ character. Then, you can write your documents in Markdown and inline Latex and create Latex-powered Pdfs via pandoc. I use this approach to write scientific papers and it works pretty well.