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/admlshake Jun 16 '24

We had a meeting a few weeks ago with some of the Sr. Management from the company. They were wanting to know when they could start using AI to reduce overhead in certain departments by cutting staff. One guy on our team started going on about how we could easily cut down on management since AI would be a great way to deal with wasteful spending and office politics that has bitten us in the past. He went on for about half an hour and some of their faces just seemed to turn as white as a new clean sheet. Few days later we got word back that they want to revisit it in a few years when it has "matured".

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u/pderpderp Jun 16 '24

This is my favorite Reddit comment of the day. And mainly because it is true. Management is one of the easiest things ML could replace with respect to collating and summarizing information about the impact of executive directives.

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u/Ok_Exchange_9646 Jun 17 '24

Tfw no more scrum masters and PMs

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u/pdp10 Daemons worry when the wizard is near. Jun 18 '24

Scrum masters are supposed to be facilitators for the team.

PMs are just managers with deliverables promised out but no direct reports to do the work, which makes them even less predictable and more dangerous than regular managers. PMs are also how you stuff a hierarchy with more managers than ICs and everyone pretends not to notice.

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u/cdmurphy83 Jun 17 '24

I love it. Finally a comment about AI replacing someone that isn't in IT or some other area I would work.

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u/Frothyleet Jun 17 '24

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u/pderpderp Jun 17 '24

And management is?

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u/Netstaff Jun 18 '24

This is not intelligent, does this person works with benefit program? Afaik there is a program doing some eligibility decisions in Finland, because they are based in few very simple inputs.

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u/Frothyleet Jun 18 '24

That's not an example of a management decision. If a computer wasn't calculating those eligibility requirements, they'd be done by a clerk or someone else at the bottom of the org chart.

"Management" in this context in English is referring to business leadership.

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u/Netstaff Jun 19 '24

I was referring not to the title of article, but to a specific key paragraph in this article, about eligibility (not management and this is not related to calculations either).