Great idea, and hopefully great results. But it’s written like LinkedIn “broetry” and that AI image at the top promises a fluffy article. Maybe expand a bit on some of the impressive tech described in the body?

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VladVladikoff 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m at the point where if I see an AI image at the start of an article I just back right out. It would be so much better if the author just didn’t include an image at all. What did this image actually add to the content of the post? If you’re just doing something for the sake of doing it you’ve lost the plot.

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thrance 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've been saying this for a while now. They could just have put an Alberta landscape shot or something else that's actually aesthetically pleasing and relevant, and doesn't feel as trashy as the picture actually in the article.

I genuinely don't understand this trend of slapping AI slop on top of your article. I've even seen good articles do it.

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amelius 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

An image signals that the author put time and energy into the article and that they have an eye for detail. Even if it's an AI generated image because the author still had to pick a fitting image.

	▲	wakamoleguy 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I disagree. Especially with AI, it’s far too easy to generate and insert an image with no time, energy, or eye for detail. Authors do it because it supposedly leads to better engagement, shows up bigger on social media, and breaks up the text. But generally, unless the visual content meaningfully adds to the text content, users will largely ignore it.
	▲	Freak_NL 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Two posters above found that the signal was more like “get ready for a gen-AI article filled with vague woolly sentences”. Wasn't there anything relevant available? Screenshots of the new tools in a before/after collage perhaps?
	▲	pjc50 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		An AI image signals that the author did not put time and energy of their own in, they had the AI make it up. It's a yellow flag.
	▲	captain_coffee 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I am 100% convinced that you are either trolling or that your comment is explicitly made in bad faith.
	▲	vkou 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If that's the image they picked, I question their taste.
	▲	Hamuko 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you generate an image that contains a bunch of low-quality gobbledegook, the signal that it sends is that you have zero eye for detail. Look at any single part of that image, and you will notice how little detail there actually is.

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vessenes 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The tech isn't the big news. It's the process opportunity for governments. That said, I did really like what they reported on a use case of Gemini -- they got a bunch of people to video every single process in the old systems, and then got Gemini to watch the video and write full specs for the new systems. Niiice.

What you have in civil government is a lot of people and a lot of time -- turning that into inputs for acceptance on the new codebase is super smart -- and using only their expertise (legacy system screen caps), but relying on the AI to do all the tech spec work feels super smart.

	▲	pjc50 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> they got a bunch of people to video every single process in the old systems, and then got Gemini to watch the video and write full specs for the new systems. Niiice. Ah, that's what the AI ingredient is. Seems reasonable, the kind of drudge work that gets avoided because nobody wants to do it. Requirements-capture what the existing system does. This often fails in the real world because it's done at some distance: either writing down what they think the system does, or want it to do, or getting political interference to pretend the process is something other than it is, but ignoring the actual working on the ground process.
	▲	kwertyoowiyop 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Totally. A small motivated team working iteratively with the users of the current system. That’s a great way to work, regardless of the AI “hook.”