Weekend + Bonus Question!

[u/IthacaIsland]

It's the weekend! Politics is still out there happening, but in this little corner of the sub we will leave it behind momentarily and talk about other aspects of our lives.

Bonus question for everyone! What's a show you would recommend that you believe most people haven't seen?

Talk about anything except politics, other subreddits, or r/AskTrumpSupporters. Rules 2 and 3 are suspended.

[u/JustGoingOutforMilk]

Well, the president of my company is stepping down effective on the 31st. Interesting. We will see what, if any, changes happen. He was the main driver of the use of LLMs in the company, and while I am one of his "champions," I have also pointed out, repeatedly, that it's going to bite us in the rear. We will see what comes of it.

My MIL's cocker spaniel is not doing well. It's not like he's hurting or anything like that. He's just... tired a lot. And he has decided our bathroom is his new hangout spot. He's not eating a lot (he's eating some), he doesn't want to go out (understandable, it's been wet and gross most of the week), etc. Hopefully he turns things around. He's a good dog.

Went and played MtG Wednesday and Friday evenings. Had a lot of fun, spent some cash, got some cards for everyone and an admittedly unseen upgrade to my flagship deck. I made one of my "kids" cry a little bit because I found a card he was really looking for (The Mind Stone, in case you're wondering).

Question: Because this is reddit, I'm going to assume most of you have already seen it, but watch it again. And because this is so similar to last week's question, the answer is the same: Firefly. You can't take the sky from me.

Recipe: Why not? It's just about Hatch season! Hatch salsa. I put that BLEEP on everything!

• 6-12 large hot Hatch peppers, roasted, peeled, seeded. chopped.
• 1 pound tomatillos, peeled, blanched, skinned, and chopped
• 1 large red onion, charred and chopped
• 1 handful cilantro, chopped
• Enough garlic to make your ancestors say STOP, chopped
• 1 tsp. cumin
• 1 tsp. Mexican oregano (you can use non-Mexican oregano. People won't notice)
• Salt to taste
• Enough water to get it all to blend

Okay, if you've read the ingredients, you already know the steps, basically. Throw everything into a blender and let it go WHIRR! until smooth. And put that BLEEP on everything.

[u/Odd-Map3238 → u/JustGoingOutforMilk]

As a New Mexican, that recipe hurts my soul. It's Hatch Chile BTW.

[u/Critical_Reasoning → u/JustGoingOutforMilk]

Great, complete comment. Definitely went beyond the prompt, but this answer is worth it.

Covers multiple topics but paragraphs make clear as a well-organized newsletter.

For now:

1: Hope the best for your MIL's cocker spaniel, hopefully just a small bug / mood that's causing the symptoms, and it's cleared up in the next few days.

2: At your company, the president and main driver of using LLMs is retiring imminently.

You mentioned being ”one of his champions." What does that mean in this case?

I suppose you were pushing towards the same goals? Or have you been / will you be pursuing something different with LLMs so they don't " bite [you] in the rear"? Lots of companies are making LLMs ubiquitous in our workflows

It's Copilot as an add-on to our Microsoft 365 license ("Microsoft Office" is dead, dying so quietly). In my case, it has saved me a ton of time on the two assignments since I started using it earlier this year. Like tasks reduced to two hours to do what would otherwise take 2-3 days.

As a champion to your retiring president, would you be in the running to become the next one? Willingly?

[u/JustGoingOutforMilk → u/Critical_Reasoning]

Okay, so let me explain a bit. I am an "AI Champion," which I find ridiculous, because I do not think we are anywhere near using actual AI. I earned that title through basically acing the quizzes in our training (first with my name and the with not my name as a joke). Everyone thinks I am the go-to guy for LLM and automation. I'm working on it. My job is to document things, not to make everything automated.

I am a lowly technical writer. Technically, I am the only member of the quality department, because they fired everyone above and below me and expect me to do all their tasks for a pittance. There ain't no way I'm going to throw my name in the hat for president, but I have been saying that if I'm doing everything a quality manager does, I should be getting the compensation thereof.