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DOGE employee (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If it works and it's stupid, then it's not stupid.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yes, there are LLMs for that, you literally just have to Google "llm parse PDF".

You could also use tesseract or any number of other solutions which probably work as well...

But an inexperienced kid is gonna act like an inexperienced kid

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 23 points 2 days ago

But an inexperienced kid is gonna act like an inexperienced kid

Let's give him access to government payroll!

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 15 points 2 days ago

It's using a shotgun instead of a drill.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Dangerously.

[+] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world -21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Doge aside, He's a kid that won prizes for writing ml models to parse greek letters from unreadable ancient ashen scrolls. Inexperienced? You sure?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of easy to forget about or ignore any experience they might have if they're asking questions like that. Sure, maybe it was a brain fart from a panicked intern who's having orders barked at them from a powerful individual that they want to impress, but that doesn't make it any better, does it?

[+] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world -9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Or he's asking a more nuanced (or poorly worded) question than people in this thread are assuming.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

... which would be?

Because to me it looks like someone asking to use an LLM to parse things that were created to specifically be parsed by machines. Looks like someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. I'm open to being educated on what that subtle question you're referring to might be, and how this person is somehow experienced and being nuanced, just drop it on me.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean ....... this person works for the department of government EFFICIENCY, right?

[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago

I get it. He's a traitor. He's evil, and he should be in prison. The pitchforks are out and people want blood. I actually agree.

But to insinuate he's a mouth breathing idiot that doesn't know what LLMs or AI is, by ignoring the fact that he won prizes by solving problems that no one had solved before is just disingenuous. Oh, and that he solved it by creating his own ML models. But, yes he's a complete moron, and anyone could have won that prize right? Certainly seems that everyone in this thread could have done it.

I'm just saying that if he's smart enough do that, when no one else did, then I choose to believe he was asking a more specific question about if there's any fine-tuned LLMs specifically for ETL, and less about "durr what is ai? "

Yes, even if he wants to use this magic LLM to speed run the US in to fascism to get a headpat from Papa Elon, it does not mean he drools over his keyboard, can't figure out a microwave, and has no concepts of what's LLMs are (despite, you know, creating his own custom ml models for fun...) I can hate him and what he's doing and still be factual about his real accomplishments.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Did he tho?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I guess it’s just a dumb tweet question then. In not directly in the field and even I’m up to date in latest model benchmarks for tasks I need to do.

I don’t know anything about this kid other than the tweet and Elon likes him.

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used LLM to format my markdown table (ಥ ͜ʖಥ)

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

oh nice! i use Prettier for that and it has worked fine for a decade or so, but it is really lacking any AI so i have been having to search for alternatives.

maybe PrettierAI, it can use LLMs to format all your code!

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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is a primary use for me. A couple times per day.

That’s part of what makes LLMs so popular with software engineers, they solve lots of trivial daily computer tasks.

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[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Oh yea, I posted the meme to the wrong community

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I mean he's not wrong.

Edit: it seems the joke that LLMs just take other people's data and regurgitates it in another format went over everyone's head 🥺

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