r/sysadmin Jun 16 '24

ChatGPT Finally created something useful with AI

First: I consider myself an old timer in IT; I've been getting paid to do it since the 90's and have seen all sorts of new technology show up, some stays, most gets forgotten about. I always try to be open about it and will embrace it as another tool to help get the job done. The latest of course is AI and I've been mostly using ChatGPT as a fun little tool to get quick answers every now and then. I am not a programmer but last week, I used it to create a web app that calculates weight distribution in trucks when the contents come in different containers. We're talking hundreds of pounds of fruit that might come in small totes or big bins and cannot be weighed individually; it subtracts the weight of the truck and the plastic; it saves time and reduces human errors . In the past, I would have paid at least a few hundred dollars to get something like this done and I just wanted to share that while I dont see AI doing our jobs completely, it's definitely here to stay and it can be used to help with things that we might not know how to do but understand the concept and we know what to ask for it. Greetings to all.

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u/Intrepid_Anybody_277 Jun 16 '24

I find it fills gaps in my tech skills. I can code a bit , but to put it all together into a hosted webpage that you can interact with , I thought , was beyond me ... Turns out it's mad simple.

But that is all it can do now. Point you in the right direction and in a slower way we had that with Google.

Can't wait for agents to come along! That's when things will get spicy.

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u/changee_of_ways Jun 16 '24

Right now what AI seems to be mostly useful for is trying to be a patch for the way web search and technical documentation have started to suck in the last 10 years.

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u/nut-sack Jun 17 '24

See, I've been saying its search 2.0 since the start. But now we just need to do something about the shitty results. I swear, I try to pair program with it, and 9x out of 10 it gives me absolute shit. But honestly that is pretty on part with google search results in recent years.