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>>laiysb+(OP)
The real tragedy is the management mandating this have their eyes clearly set on replacing the very same software engineers with this technology. I don’t know what’s more Kafka than Kafka but this situation certainly is!

>>le-mar+g4
When tasked to train a technology that deprecates yourself, it’s relatively OK (you’re getting paid handsomely, and many of the developers at Microsoft etc. are probably ready to retire soon anyway). It’s another thing to realize that the same technology will also deprecate your children.

>>strogo+jh
The managers may believe that's what they're asking their developers to do, but doesn't this whole charade expose the fact that this technology just does not have even close to the claimed capabilities?

I see it as wishful thinking in the extreme to suppose that probabilistic mashing together of plagiarized jigsaw pieces of code could somehow approach human intelligence and reasoning—and yet, the parlour trick is convincing enough that this has escalated into a mass delusion.

>>solarw+J31
Philosophy becomes key. True human intelligence is not very well defined, and possibly cannot be divorced from concepts like “consciousness” or “agency”, at which point claiming that the thing is “like human” opens the operator to accusations of running a torture chamber or being a slave owner of entities that can feel.