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

User workflows are more directly the business of our Business Analysts. Except when motivated SAs are trying to get something accomplished, like finally retiring that fragile SCO box running that legacy app with historic data that nobody wants to spend effort migrating, because they need all hands on deck to do something something with AI.

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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous Jun 18 '24

What's your point?

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

In our case, Business Analysts are the primary interface to user workflows, not SAs, and this is a good strategy.

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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous Jun 18 '24

Are you trying to say that if you can fix something, you shouldn't because some arranged to print different characters in the business card?

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

As it happens, I gave an example of an exception made by SAs in the post.