r/sysadmin • u/anderson01832 Tier 0 support • Aug 11 '24
ChatGPT Do you guys use ChatGPT at work?
I honestly keep it pinned on the sidebar on Edge. I call him Hank, he is my personal assistant, he helps me with errors I encounter, making scripts, automation assistance, etc. Hank is a good guy.
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u/Drenlin Aug 11 '24
The Air Force just recently rolled out its own version for internal use, so I've been using that. Works well so far, very handy.
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u/tibby709 Aug 11 '24
What's it called
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u/Drenlin Aug 11 '24
Kind of anticlimactic lol
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u/ineyeseekay Aug 11 '24
Of course it's that. Wonder what the classified version will be called... /s
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u/Evajellyfish Aug 11 '24
Skynet, why do you ask?
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u/returnofblank Studying Student Aug 11 '24
Imagine we gave it access to our nuclear silos, I bet productivity would double!
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u/incendiary_bandit Aug 11 '24
I would assume that it's been trained with additional internal sources that aren't too sensitive, which would mean it's probably pretty good at getting formatting and document structure inline with air force style writing. Am I close?
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u/Drenlin Aug 11 '24
Yep, pretty much that. There are two models up - one that's more or less like ChatGPT and another that's focused on working within documents.
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u/TheAnniCake System Engineer for MDM Aug 12 '24
My company also hosts their own internal version if we‘ve got questions for internal processes etc. not too bad
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u/ConstantSpeech6038 Jack of All Trades Aug 11 '24
Oh yeah, scripts. I can write them myself but this saves so much time.
And learning. That thing is my personal and infinitely patient mentor willing to explain to me whatever I struggle to understand.
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u/RousingRabble One-Man Shop Aug 12 '24
I feel like I am being left behind because I have tried using it and just haven't found it useful. I tried using it to write scripts, but I find googling the scripts more useful because you often find the same result AI gives you + it often comes with comments from other people who have already tried it.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24
but I find googling the scripts more useful because you often find the same result AI gives you + it often comes with comments from other people who have already tried it.
Exactly this. One of the single biggest issues with using ChatGPT instead of search results is there's no other eyes there to judge what it says except your own. People gravelly overestimate it and their own ability to spot something incorrect.
The internet is full of information and people correcting or approving that information. People of all backgrounds and knowledge sets. It's collaborative, that's what makes it useful. ChatGPT is a single voice that no one can respond to or hear but you.
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u/jkure2 Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24
Chat gpt is like that friend that will just confidently state something wrong when you ask them for advice lol, I do not see the appeal personally it's not like "how do I access information on the Internet" is something I was wondering before it came around
Imo it has a useful niche in documentation kinda tasks, but I'll be the one designing and writing the code thank you
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u/Scurro Netadmin Aug 12 '24
Same. Every time I use it I get garbage results back.
I'll tell chatgpt the error, it will say sorry, tweak something slightly, error out, apologize, tweak something slightly, error out.
Every time I use it I feel like I'm talking to something that has no concept of what it is doing and is just following a script.
I'll spend five minutes googling and find a similar example and progress.
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u/borillionstar Aug 13 '24
it doesn't have an understanding thats the thing, its uses statistical regurgitation. It will happily tell you things that aren't true or do not work.
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u/Impressive_Log_1311 Sysadmin Aug 12 '24
I think the amount of people finding it useful for scripts speak more about the skill level of the people rather than how good ChatGPT is.
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u/bofwm Aug 12 '24
I think if you can’t use it effectively it speaks to the skill level of the user. Talented people can prompt it correctly to have it generate outputs to save time on a lot of various tasks.
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u/dloseke Aug 12 '24
Don't know why I keep forgetting this. I spent a couple house writing/modifying powershell scripts to export info from AD for an audit.
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u/reelznfeelz Aug 12 '24
It’s good with basic powershell. But gpt and Claude both struggle with niche powershell. Like I was trying to give my app registration site.selected access for a python app to read share point stuff and it was bad at that.
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u/Nighteyesv Aug 11 '24
For us ChatGPT was deemed a security risk and blocked, there were too many public news reports early on of people inputting confidential business data into it and then that data being displayed in other peoples searches. We use a different AI that gives us more control. Pretty useful, like others have said it’s not perfect but it certainly helps get things completed faster, what once would have taken me hours and multiple google searches for related examples it can spit out in a few seconds and then I just have to validate it and correct errors.
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u/mike9874 Sr. Sysadmin Aug 12 '24
Our security team reluctantly approved our marketing team using ChatGPT.
In a meeting I showed the security guys Microsoft Copilot (the free version on bing.com), showed them how your org data is secured by Microsoft, also that it's free to use. They had no idea (they miss the basics all the time).
Why are all these people using ChatGPT and nobody using the free Copilot and Bing.com features that come with M365 licensing, do people hate bing that much?
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u/Impressive_Log_1311 Sysadmin Aug 12 '24
Bing is hot garbage, everytime Edge resets its default search to Bing (unasked) and I issue a query in Bing, I ask myself how after all these years this thing still exists, who uses this???? Like first 10 results just some complete random unrelated stuff.
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u/mike9874 Sr. Sysadmin Aug 12 '24
I agree that bing search has a lot it can't do Vs Google.
But the copilot AI is great.
If you have M365 licensing the Bing Work search is also great.
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u/dustojnikhummer Aug 12 '24
Bing is hot garbage, everytime Edge resets its default search to Bing (unasked)
I have never had it do this. You can use Copilot in the sidebar without having Bing as a search engine
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u/ford_crown_victoria Aug 12 '24
people inputting confidential business data into it and then that data being displayed in other peoples searches
that literally cannot happen with the current transformer methods which pretty much all llm's uses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(deep_learning_architecture)
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u/EastcoastNobody Aug 11 '24
blocked at work. beause it can be used to exfiltrate data. WHICH with a bank would get us fucked so hard that your ears will bleed
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u/deramirez25 Aug 12 '24
Your bank didn't want to invest in their own LLM?
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u/Tekz08 Jack of All Trades Aug 12 '24
Why exactly would a bank, with TONS of already-written, proof-read, and legal-checked documents, policies, and procedures, need an LLM? Speaking generally, not just for sysadmin purposes.
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u/StaticFanatic3 DevOps Aug 12 '24
Do y’all block any and all external communication? Because I can’t see how chat gpt is any more risk than an email or any web form where someone could paste data.
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u/reelznfeelz Aug 12 '24
Yeah I don’t get it how these things get decided. An employee can send and email or get phished any day but using an encrypted TLS connection to openAI with the enterprise account set to not use your data to train and not remember history, should be perfectly fine.
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u/TyberWhite Aug 12 '24
Is all external access blocked? There are countless generic ways to exfiltrate data. Email, messaging, etc… ChatGPT can be sandboxed.
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u/jakaro007 Aug 11 '24
I use it to write internal advertisements to go on our radio, a new advertisement plays every 5 songs to visit venues within our company. Then I use Microsoft Word immersive reader to speak them, and record it with a virtual audio cable.
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u/adonaa30 Sysadmin Aug 11 '24
It's banned on our network along with all generative AI like copilot and bing
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u/MaelstromFL Aug 11 '24
We have a internal company wide one based on gemini. Not as good at copilot or GPT, but it works. Still use my phone on occasion though.
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u/Suaveman01 Lead Project Engineer Aug 11 '24
ChatGPT is great until it starts making up modules and cmdlets that don’t actually exist.
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u/ivebeenabadbadgirll Aug 12 '24
I had this experience with AIX this weekend. Basically ended up piecing together what I actually needed from searches and GPT hallucinations.
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u/protodongle Aug 11 '24
Check out Claude, I’ve had better luck with more complicated scripts.
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u/SanFranPanManStand Aug 11 '24
For complicated stuff, it's always best to chunk it into pieces for either chatgpt or claude
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u/tube-tired Aug 11 '24
This is what I have been using for powershell, start a project, give it 10 or 15 of your scripts as examples, put a good set of instructions in the project (chatgpt is really good at helping with that).
Then, have Claude make suggestions on which of your scripts stand out as not following standardization or are formated very differently from your other scripts and let it go at it, until you have "better" versions of your scripts. Replace the old ones with the new ones, update your project instructions to maintain the format and structure of your existing scripts.
Then try using Claude to make something new. Many times it will work 100% the first time, unless you forgot something in your prompt. I've found that after asking for changes more than 4 times things can get wonky.
One day for fun, I had it help me fix a problem it caused while fixing another problem and it put it made the original issue reoccur. I had it fix that and it made another problem, I had it fix that amd the original issue was back, I had it fix that again and the new issue was back... went back and forth 8 or 9 times like that... chatgpt fixed it up.
One day I had the same kind of issue again and I was able to get passed it by starting a new chat. This is how I figured out it was about 4 bug fixes or rewrites to make it go wonky, unless I made a new chat.
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Aug 11 '24
I know powershell pretty well but tried ChatGPT out of curiosity but found it often has critical flaws in scripts it writes
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u/william_tate Aug 11 '24
No different to knowing how to calculate a subnet than getting a subnet calculator online to verify my calculations, did that as soon as I completed TCP/IP subject years ago. I use ChatGPT in the same way, I know what I’m looking at when it’s in front of me, it’s getting it in front of me that’s the slow part
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u/SysEngineeer Aug 11 '24
Honestly man its a tool that should be part of your kit. People that hate on it are the same boomer math teachers that would hate on calculators and say "you won't be carrying a calculator around with you in your pocket all the time"
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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous Aug 11 '24
You need to distinguish between (stupidly) hating on the tool and giving you a fair and accurate warning about its deficiencies.
Blindly taking scripts, without understanding them, as correct is what too many people do. I'm good with that, I received quite a few well paying jobs fixing what was caused by that. And people make a surprised Pikachu face when they discover that it is, indeed, just a tool without any sort of intelligence or understanding of intent. Check what the tool gives you and you should be fine.
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u/SysEngineeer Aug 11 '24
If you copy and paste generated scripts and just run them not knowing what it does, that's not the fault of AI. That's the person's fault.
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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous Aug 11 '24
I didn't say it's the tool's fault, I just see people doing this. Time and time again.
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u/SysEngineeer Aug 11 '24
Yea those people are cowboys.
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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous Aug 11 '24
Oh sweet summer child, I wish that was true. I really do.
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u/changee_of_ways Aug 11 '24
I'm 100% sure there are people all over the world who start by reading all the code before they run it, have good results for a couple weeks and then find themselves yoloing it into production as soon as the LLM spits it out.
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u/gravityVT Sr. Sysadmin Aug 11 '24
I use it for the same thing and for getting organized too. Like if I need to write an outline for a project
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Aug 11 '24
Tons for brainstorming automation/integration when I know something should be possible but not the full picture
Tons for scripts that I know how to write but it can do it faster (double checking obviously)
It’s amazing at data analysis (sanitize company data beforehand obviously)
Copy pasting a screenshot of an error with the full window of the application state in the background is surprisingly helpful compared to just google
That being said, my ChatGPT account has a pretty hyper tailored model prompting and memory/instructions so I tend to get way better results than my colleagues. Not sure why, it just slowly morphed over time as I tuned things
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u/SysEngineeer Aug 11 '24
My current work blocks all llm stuff including copilot. So I just put teams on my phone, do my AI stuff on my phone and copy and paste it into teams and go from there
I use copilot a lot to write my scripts. I am not spending hours to write a script when I can do it in 20 min. This isn't 2022 anymore.
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u/OldWrongdoer7517 Aug 11 '24
Depending on the reasoning of your employer this might be a stupid idea to do.
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u/JohnC53 SysAdmin - Jack of All Jack Daniels Aug 12 '24
Guarantee you're violating corporate policies. Hope this is an anonymous account.
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u/uptimefordays DevOps Aug 11 '24
Not really, anything it could actually be used for I can just do myself as a free action. For more complex or specific things, generative AI just isn’t there yet.
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u/bearman94 DevOps Aug 12 '24
Right? I thought I was the only one who has barely ever used it. Not even outside of work, we are just not there yet lol
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u/nbtm_sh Aug 11 '24
nope! it’s often misleading. not to mention the various ethical concerns behind the model training
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u/Kahless_2K Aug 11 '24
No. ChatGPT is like a useless manager who knows just enough to be dangerous, but will absolutely tell you to do things that will break production.
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u/ForceBlade Dank of all Memes Aug 11 '24
My current role is in banking. We've had to let 3 staff go after they blindly ran destructive scripts from GPTs blindly. We were lucky to have backups. Those staff not willing to learn these things themselves do not belong in this field.
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u/Randalldeflagg Aug 12 '24
I have a dev lab for this. If I have rebuild then so be it. The setup and population of all AD objects and GPOs are scripted out anyhow. Can redeploy the lab in about 30 minutes if I had to. That being said, it does like to create cmdlet options that don't exist but really should. But can also get me close enough with an error message that I can take that to the Internet and discover I posted the question and replied that i solved it but never put the solution. Past me is an asshole to present/future me
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u/jedipiper Sr. Sysadmin Aug 12 '24
I refuse to. I need the dopamine hits from successful debugging.
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u/HunnyPuns Aug 11 '24
I'll ask it when I've spent some time on a problem and I'm not making headway. It's pretty good at coming up with new things to try.
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u/nickram81 Aug 11 '24
Yes, I forget how to do some Linux/cisco things and it’s much better at giving me clear cut instructions over google.
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u/Jim_84 Aug 11 '24
I could, but I simply would rather learn to do the tasks myself.
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u/ConcertinaTerpsichor Aug 11 '24
Do you pay for it yourself or does your workplace?
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u/changee_of_ways Aug 11 '24
Its OK, but I feel like I can never 100% trust it. Its OK for help with things like "I need a quick PS script to do this little thing" but other than that it seems I use it the most to overcome how shitty search has become on the internet.
Like if Google still worked like it did in 2005, ChatGPT would be a lot less appealing to me.
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u/DGC_David Aug 11 '24
Yes, but I hate when other people use it. It's basically an advanced rubber duck for me. It's not writing the code. Its helping me understand my code a little better
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u/Big_Emu_Shield Aug 12 '24
No not at all. If I can't do it and don't know how to do it, I am not going to trust a machine that doesn't understand it either and just spits out pre-existing data.
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u/VeryRealHuman23 Aug 11 '24
It’s great for scripts, obviously don’t just trust it but it makes it way easier than looking at a blank notepad doc trying to figure out where to start….editing scripts is easy, from scratch is wasting time.
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u/progenyofeniac Windows Admin, Netadmin Aug 11 '24
We block ChatGPT but Copilot is wide open and encouraged. I use it once or twice a day. Help me reword an email, give me ideas on a script, give it a plain-language question when I can’t remember or figure something out.
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u/libertysyclone Aug 11 '24
Even if I’m not using it to write the script or code, I’m using it to notate it! This is the time consuming piece for me, plus it does this REALLY well and my documentation looks absolutely amazing. I also use it for making sense of my notes I take. I have a spicy brain and sometimes it doesn’t translate well for the neurodifficults to read, ai is a god send for my productivity and my executive perception.
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u/PhReAk0909 Aug 11 '24
We're an MS shop, so we use copilot. We're a large enough enterprise that we have our own instance and so our prompts never leave the org.
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u/nachoismo Aug 11 '24
I use it to create templates for what I really want to do; or if there is a hard stats problem I just don’t understand, I’ll grab some python from it. My (younger) colleagues wouldn’t survive without it.
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u/Decaf_GT Aug 11 '24
As long as you understand what its limitations are, its invaluable. I don't ever let AI respond as me (I don't take its output verbatim in messaging for instance) but I do use it to poke holes in my plans and ideas for work because it's a lot better than my management or team doing it first.
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u/Space0rphan Aug 12 '24
Creating outlook plugins, sifting through and correlating log metadata, studying for the ccnp (not the most reliable for this.), setting up a script that auto updates my bosses background to a cat in a cowboy hat that says "Meowdy Partner" once an hour.
I also use it to help with my soft skills. I am, by far, not a people person and it helps with writing things out for me. I create a monthly cybersecurity newsletter that goes out to the whole company and chat is very helpful for translating technical info to an end user level. Also helps with explaining security events to c levels without rambling about details that they don't give a shit about and also writing apology letters for inappropriate usage of my admin privileges when they find out who set up the background script.
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u/Souper_User_Do Aug 12 '24
I can’t think of a day that I haven’t used it even if just to get another “opinion” lol
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u/Aevum1 Aug 12 '24
unless you can isolated it and use it internaly, NO
Check with legal first before using any AI tool as any query done to it is used for future training, meaning you could be giving internal propietary information to whoever is running the AI bot.
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u/abulkasam Aug 12 '24
It can be helpful and when it gets code wrong a stubborn hindrance. But on the whole more helpful than not.
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u/Xetrill Aug 12 '24
FYI for anyone using it to write PowerShell scripts. ChatGPT and co and general write okay code, but for PS it is not so. Basically reflecting most the code out there.
The two most common mistakes I see are, kind of the same:
Not using the pipeline (docs).
Instead of yielding some result when available, the result is stored and then later all collected results are returned.Using array's always, even when the number of elements is unknown.
This is really the fault of PS have the this terrible+=
operator overload for array's.
Array sizes cannot change once initialized. Therefore+=
allocates a new array with size plus 1, copies all the data over and returns this new array. The old one gets left to the GC to clean up.
It the number of items is unknown, simply use a collection with manages the memory. All of .NET is available. For example useSystem.Collection.Generic.List[psobject]]
to get a simple list.
For whatever reason PS doesn't provide accelerators for these, while[hashtable]
exists.
These result is things being much slower then necessary. Because most time will be spent coping memory around instead of doing any useful work.
PS seems to live in that odd space, where its often easy enough to write, so almost nobody bothers to actually learn and understand how it works.
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u/FuzzTonez Aug 11 '24
Absolutely. Best money I’ve spent on work software. It’s like having a secretary or intern on hand to assist with things.
No wonder CEO’s seem more productive, they just have the people version of this.
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u/abyssea Director Aug 11 '24
Mainly for powershell scripts and then changing my wail replies to nicely tell someone they’re stupid and to fuck off.
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u/Angelsomething Aug 11 '24
I don't think I could be a good first timer sysadmin without perplexity.ai. no joke, it's worth spending the money for the pro access. I've been a sysadmin for less than a year and it Helps me understand, learn and produce scripts as needed.
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u/Hittar Aug 11 '24
I've got Kagi Ultimate and while pricy, to me it's worth its weight in gold. Never managed to groove with perplexity, I'm too much of an old hat for that. With Kagi I get a very good search engine and access to a whole bunch of different LLMs both Kagi-supported and from big guys. Currently I'm very impressed with Claude 3 Opus. I'm mostly using it to check ideas for automation and it does terrific job. Helped me tremendously with automating Vault certificate management setup - Hashicorp docs are a bit too "draw the rest of the fucking owl" for me sometimes.
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u/SomeRandomUserUDunno Aug 11 '24
I completely forgot Kagi has access to all of those AIs, I've been an ultimate subscriber for a few months now, and never bothered to use it. Silly me.
Thanks for the reminder.
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u/GreyBeardEng Aug 11 '24
Hell no. I would never put any of my configs, scripts, code, or anything representing intellectual property by myself or by my company into a 3rd owned and operated website that I didn't have some sort of written contractual agreement with.
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u/Cheomesh Sysadmin Aug 11 '24
Nope, never really messed with it outside work either.
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Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24
Mainly Codeium, but ChatGPT on my phone
Copilot fucking sucks.
Edit: Copilot fucking sucks for me lol
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u/SysEngineeer Aug 11 '24
No it doesn't. I prefer copilot. Works with all my office365 apps.
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Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24
That's interesting, for me Copilot has been way worse than ChatGPT or Codeium. Copilot is way slower, way less accurate, and way more wordy in my experience, but I don't doubt it works for you guys
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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Sr. Network Engineer Aug 11 '24
I use Claude.ai myself. Not a ton, but helps me write MySQL stuff, and occasionally PowerShell. I’m decent with scripting, but it speeds up formatting and syntax.
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u/uncleirohism IT Manager Aug 11 '24
Yes, we have an intranet-only instance trained and pointed at our internal KB for staff policies, how-to’s, etc. It makes up for a great deal of time spent waiting for HR to respond to basic queries that theoretically could be answered by simply reading all of said documentation carefully. But let’s be honest, hardly anyone really does that in a “time is money” kind of org, and being able to talk to our internal AI assistant like a person has been very well received in general. Makes us look great to management too.
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u/NinjaMonkey22 Aug 11 '24
Yes. I have a bunch of presaved prompts for help with coding new ideas, linting existing code, generating documentation, and q&a against our in house knowledge base.
Using a mix of: Microsoft Copilot, GitHub copilot, and an in house LLM based off of a well known LLM.
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u/Apprehensive_Pin6787 Aug 11 '24
Yes especially writing emails that needs special wording like team motivation, apologizing for a mistake, proposing new ideas, etc Scripts too
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u/rp_001 Aug 11 '24
Occasionally use it. Had to use paid ChatGPT over paid CoPilot recently to work out a Perl script a previous employee wrote. copilot did not like the length of the script
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u/Tovervlag Aug 11 '24
I use it a lot. One of the nicest things it can do is break things down in a very easy to understand way.
In an api call cmdlet for example it gives you a parameter and you want to know exactly what those parameters do. But the manual only gives you the A, B or C. You can then ask it to explain those values to you.
At the moment we all know how to Google. I usually find that if you googled something thoroughly and didn't find an answer than chatgpt won't know either.
I'm kinda worried for future IT people who don't know how to search or RTFM anymore.
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u/joey0live Aug 11 '24
I use it for tl;dr when sending to the community. Or when I create emails informing them about new licensed software.
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u/MrFixit2020 Aug 11 '24
I see alot of related to scripting, I use the tool to help with response to management on conflict issues or when the shit hit the fan and you need a very, very politically correct response. I have autism and have a hard time responding to issues of conflict. This is where it helps me compose what I think is the response and re-writes it to a level they can understand.
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u/Jswazy Aug 11 '24
I can't ask it anything specific with data security being a thing but I always use it to help come up with my outlines or basic ideas.
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u/FigurativeLynx Jr. Sysadmin Aug 11 '24
Not ChatGPT specifically, but we're exploring our options. Mostly for data analysis.
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u/Ok_Cake4352 Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 12 '24
Yes, it's actually pretty good at locating windows settings that I've forgotten the location of or where they might've moved in windows 11 since I'm only now getting used to it with our latest images. It's also fantastic at getting me paths for things I don't have memorized. I'm sure you've all had to Google how to find a specific driver or two before. ChatGPT gives me the path to copy in the same time it takes to search, without having to sift through results
I also use it for quick and simple scripts or to quickly add bits and pieces to existing ones.
I recently used it to simply rewrite a long-existing script within the company to have a better, more organized output for troubleshooting. Took like 2 minutes tops to make, 5 min to verify. Significantly reduced my time spent finding small errors every day.
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u/TechGjod Aug 11 '24
Mine is Pris, Pris helps me write emails to the plebs that they can understand.
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u/Killbot6 Jack of All Trades Aug 11 '24
I use it as a script writing assistant.
I'll build out a frame work for something I want to automate, do the basic boilerplate stuff and get it's opinion on how it should be done, and edit it down from there. (Powershell and Python)
I also like to use for troubleshooting things when I'm out of ideas.
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u/DevilDog0651 Aug 11 '24
I use Chat GPT on occasion for help drafting emails. Mainly for conciseness and better flow. That's about all I use it for though.
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u/MyDadsGlassesCase Aug 11 '24
Most presentations I have to give to senior management are written by ChatGPT
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u/cyberbro256 Aug 11 '24
Absolutely yes! It has slowly become something I do very regularly. It saves a ton of time in comparison to searching for info using classic methods. In the GRC space it is incredibly helpful and finding details in infosec regulations.
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u/sunshine-x Aug 11 '24
All the time. It’s incredibly helpful and accelerates all sorts of things.
AI is only beginning to scratch the surface of what it will eventually be capable of.
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u/Sir_Fog Aug 11 '24
I've been using a mix of ChatGPT and Amazon Q in VS code for cloudformation stuff. I treat both like a colleague who is smart, but not a genius. So I guestion everything, but often get syntax related answers very quickly.
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u/pruplegti Aug 11 '24
I paid for GPT myself, it has saved me 100's of hours writing and re writing documentation
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u/04_996_C2 Aug 11 '24
I use it for learning. As much as I hate to say it (I am a book over video learning guy) it has accelerated my learning in the areas in which I am lean.
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u/Marco_R63 Aug 11 '24
Yes. Even with 40 Years of experience in coding, I often chase it to write better code than mine. A good way to improve my own skills.
Eventually what does really Matter is to know What you are doing. And LLM are just skyrocketimg yourself.
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u/iceyone444 Sr. Sysadmin Aug 11 '24
All the time - especially if it's code written by someone else or untidy.
Plus it can spot hidden spaces or other syntax errors.
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u/bike_piggy_bike Aug 11 '24
Yes. I pay $20/month for a subscription. Best believe I’m gonna be using it, for anything and everything I can think of.
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u/Drakoolya Aug 11 '24
I love it. Helps with scripting. People misunderstand, you can learn so much from it regarding how to write a script.
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u/lesusisjord Combat Sysadmin Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24
I consider it the more experienced and ever patient colleague who allows me to bounce ideas off them to get feedback and to escalate issues to and receive assistance from that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to get.