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[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 124 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Journalists using LLMs to turn bullet points into a full article

 Readers using LLMs to summarize a full article into a series of bullet points

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My company is experimenting with using LLMs for yearly reviews and it works just like this. We feed in some bullet points of accomplishments and hope the LLM doesn’t fuck it up. Then the manager gets a condensed version down from the summaries.

Like why bother have the llm in the middle? Can’t I just send data?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Like why bother have the llm in the middle?

To attempt to abstract away actual responsibility for the manager's decisions

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some of the bullet points are outright wrong.

Some of the bullet points are misleading.

The reader would have been better off with the initial list.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, but then how would the journalist keep up the appearance of being a serious intellectual who writes in long form?

Like, I unironically would love that, but it's culturally difficult right now.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Is there anything that generates half-way decent UIs? All I‘ve used was pretty much trash.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] mogranja@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Eh, it's hit or miss in my experience.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

It's all trash

[–] embMaster@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Qwen3 Coder 480B actually gave me some pretty impressive results.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I once asked Canva to make me a UI and got candid pictures of people in parties and such. It was so left field and unrelated to what I asked that it caught me off guard.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I honestly don't know how anyone on my team keeps a straight face when they mention it.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As a FE focused eng with too much industry experience, I refuse to touch any UI that was generated by AI. That sounds like a nightmare. Hell, I refuse to touch any UI that was generated by fucking DreamWeaver.

One of the hardest challenges in large scale UIs is keeping everything organized and modular. It's way too easy to write event dependent spaghetti code.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

As always AI is ok for doing tiny little things with no dependencies and no plan to use/maintain the thing for a long time. Basically a functional prototype.

Beyond that it's useless. As you said, more spaghetti than in an italian restaurant.

Oh, and never ask an AI to fix the bugs it made. It always fails with that.