Is it premature to blame AI Slop?

iammrpayments a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

No. As a Shopify User and app maintainer, I’ve started seeing more bugs and although Shopify is still much more reliable than Github, it’s the second time in 6 months I see it going down, something that would never happen 5 years ago.

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marcosdumay 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. We need statistics before that, not a single anecdote.

And even then we won't be able to tell if it's because of the AI or because they fired everybody that knows what they are doing.

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lelanthran 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Is it premature to blame AI Slop?

You will never know. Lots of pretty important people publicly laid down the law that AI must be used; any indication that it produces crap will be hidden.

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rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nah, they used to go down like this before AI too.

	▲	jeromegv 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The error message on some site was "Store not found", this is definitely a serious outage that we had not seen before.

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wmeredith 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you're asking the question, most likely yes. If you have evidence of the problem being AI slop, no.

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ClarityJones 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The scientific method is generally to ask a question, and test it, before randomly collected evidence makes the obvious undeniable.

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warmwaffles 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And even if it _was_ related to AI, they would not admit it. First course of action is to blame user/programmer error and then QA process error. You shall not blame the golden calf. I am half serious and half not. But I do recommend reading the book "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'" in conjunction with my hyperbole.

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chadgpt3 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Remember: when AI succeeds, it's because AI is great. When AI fails, you're prompting it wrong.

	▲	xeonmc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Slopify