Absolutely true.
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@jawarajabbi @jzillw @cstross This is exactly how the banking system is, even large banks, & the work of integrating or migrating those systems is frequently farmed out to consulting firms (ask me how I know). It’s all fragile, held together with tape, & breaks all the time.
I’ve been away from that world for a bit, but I think it’s very likely those people would be looking at LLMs as a godsend.
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@bituur_esztreym @cstross @quinn It also shortens to a nice acronym that sounds way less insulting than it really is ("WoO manager", "he has WoOed all the way through this project", "that's a glorious pile of WoO").
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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@charette/116127384919473905
Absolutely true.
(For those who haven't dealt with banking IT: banks are in the business of managing financial risk, and it doesn't get any riskier than allowing an enthusiastic intern who occasionally lies to you and hallucinates on the job to refactor a 60 year old code base that nobody really understands, without oversight, that handles all your customers' money. The phrase "sued into a smoking crater of banking wreckage the instant anything goes wrong" springs to mind!)
@cstross As a person, who was working in banking IT: yes, but no.
I do not know, how that matches other banks, but for me that was: they were risk averse, because of that they were conservative, and that has caused another class of problems.
There was one delivery a colleague working in another dept was working on. The delivery required some changes in the storage configuration. It was well tested and documented, and it was sound. However, to make a change on production they needed a blessing from involved department. And, obviously, they needed one from the storage guys, as they will be implementing this part of the change. And they said: sorry, not this quarter.
There was a rule for dept managers: three strikes and you are out. Three serious fuckups (affecting prod) happen during a quarter in your dept, and you're fired. Doesn't matter, if you're at fault.
So, the storage dept has a serious h/w failure already. You know, those pesky spinning rusts decided to get more rusty. And the manager wasn't keen to take any new risks this quarter.
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@bituur_esztreym @cstross @quinn It also shortens to a nice acronym that sounds way less insulting than it really is ("WoO manager", "he has WoOed all the way through this project", "that's a glorious pile of WoO").
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