Sounds like LLM is a good fit for replacing management layers now then.
“I learned it from you, Dad!”
- LLM agent trained on human data where we solve our problems with either beaurocracy or violence.
Not surprising.
Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add “guardrails” or point them to a calculator.
It shouldn’t be surprising that they utterly fail at basic tasks on their own.
Modern A.I. is just 4 LLMs in a trenchcoat
Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add “guardrails” or point them to a calculator.
Isn’t this the crux of one of Rick and Morty episodes?
Four AIs spent 11 minutes deciding who was authorized to fertilize one wheat block. At that point, I’m not sure the experiment failed. They recreated middle management with no humans involved. Give them another hour and they’ll require a quarterly performance review from the wheat.
What do you mean “no humans involved”? The LLMs are statistical models trained on humans (and their behaviours) and so obviously the outcome is a representation of exactly that. They’re just worse at it.
Honestly, humans have been doing agriculture for thousands of years and we’re still hung up on who’s allowed to cultivate what land.
So 11 minutes isn’t that bad, honestly…
yet another proof that middle managers aren’t sentient
My manager keeps me from having to deal with politics, shifting priorities, and tells me what I need to do to deal with the endless morass of corporate bureaucracy. He’s worth every cent.
Yeah, that can be tricky. Under a previous manager where mostly he was ignored and I worked straight with the middle management, I had gotten the hang of the people inflicting the politics and crap and was significantly able to directly counter it to avoid spurious bullshit.
Then when that manager got laid off, and I got a new “I’ll shield you” manager, who largely just takes whatever crap he’s told and passes it on and says it’s better to just take it than risk making waves. So I end up having to waste more time than I used to.
But absolutely was valuable in an early manager who took on the politics direct while I just did my work in early career. Of course he got fired for keeping documentation on a certain executive making a terrible call and actually sharing it with the senior leadership team when that terrible call went bad. Senior executives canned the executive, but let him fire the manager on the way out. Guess if there’s one thing worse than an executive incurring risk, it’s a snitch.
Problem being, lots of middle managers got the job via The Peter Principal. My last boss landed the role that way. He’s an astonishing devops guy and one of the 5 smartest humans I’ve ever known, but he cannot manage people.
Quit my job at Lowe’s when it became apparent the regional theft prevention manager hated me. GM passed me in the store and said I better watch it with her as he couldn’t protect me. Loved the three guys above me, but I was out a couple of hours after hearing that.
what about his manager?
Response for politics, priority shifting and upholding the morass of corporate bureaucracy. He’s worth every 100k.
And replaceable.
What would you say you do here?
I take directives from the CEO and board and deliver them to the goddamn employees, so they don’t have to deal with them. I have people skills, dammit!
so they don’t have to deal with them
Yep, that’s the entire purpose of middle management. Making sure the c-suite doesn’t have to interact with the plebes.
Surprised they didn’t invent Agile, frankly
Could have been an email
They should try again after they fix the problems. Though i wonder if they even understand what the problem was or are they “allowed” to fix it.
It’s pretty clear to me that the problem is that the division of labor wasn’t clearly defined. This seems like a management issue.
Like, with 50 players, you can make 5 teams of ten. Assign one team to mining, one to woodcutting, one to crafting, one to building, and one to food production.
Then within each team, give each one a zone to focus on. Each crafter gets a workshop, each fooder gets a field or some coastline. Two or three different mining locations and you can assign each miner a cardinal direction for their main shaft. The woodcutters can replant the trees as they go, so each one only needs a moderate sized area.
Then the builders can be divided into categories. Maybe 4 on wall duty, 4 on buildings, 2 on paths and lights.
Or better yet make it only 5 woodcutters, 5 crafters, and 5 food producers. Then you have 15 extra players and you can set 10 of those to act as guards to protect the others from monsters, and 5 as runners to carry materials from the mines, groves, farms, etc., to the town, and carry replacement tools, supplies, food, etc. back to the stations.
Once the structures are complete, the builders can join the other teams. Eventually when you add stuff like enchanting and brewing there will be more roles, like hunting monsters for exp, or fighting blazes for their powder.
But yeah for early game, it seems like a simple solution, and the answer is proper delegation instead of a free-for-all.
But yeah for early game, it seems like a simple solution, and the answer is proper delegation instead of a free-for-all.
That’s the problem. Humans would each gravitate to what they do best and organise themselves into a structure relatively quickly.
LLMs get stuck in circular patterns because they don’t have the ability to do that. They can’t think outside the box. None of them arbitrarily becomes the boss to take charge. They’re all yes men stuck in endless board meetings where even just flipping a coin would break the deadlock. But they are incapable of realising that, because they are just statistical regurgitation machines flavoured with a bit of randomness on the most probable outputs.
Are we training the Matrix now?
Can we go back to 1999 then please? I need another timeline
But medicine was so much worse in 1999
That’s how humanity lives on forever. The Matrix had them using us for power, but they won’t need us meat bags at all, really.
Fun fact, early scripts for the original film had Humanity plugged in to share computational processing Powe for the Machines, but the studios didn’t believe audiences could grasp that so it was changed to providing electricity.
Which is impossible, the whole feeding cycle for harvesting us as batteries would yield less power than just using the feed source for power.
Fermi paradox was really referring to intelligence eventually creating a paralyzing bureaucracy.
Lol
Oh. Just like real life.
