The owner lives in London and rarely visits but he has arranged for AI consultants to come in and workshop with us to see how "AI can help the business". Our operations mainly consist of data entry.
"AI" (LLM-based automation) is only useful if you don't really care about the accuracy of the output. It usually gets most of the data transformations mostly right, enough for people to blindly copy/paste its output, but sometimes it goes off the rails. But hey, when it does, at least it'll apologise for its own failings.
"It says 'no shellfish', go ahead - eat it"
Even with lots context the various services we tried would get something wrong.
e.g. huile is oil in French and sometimes it would get translated as "motor oil"
1. SOA and later micro services 2. Big data & MongoDb 3. Kubernetis 4. Blockchain
Same here, but I started a few months earlier than most (I work in a marketing department as the only one with SWE skills). There's a lot you can do with AI.
For one, you can finally introduce some more automation, they are more open to it. And whenever you need a more "human-like intelligence" in your automation, you basically make an LLM call.
It also helps in terms of creating small microsites, etc.
It helps me personally because whenever I want to make a small command-line tool to make my life easier, I can now also decide to create a whole website as it's about as quick to make nowadays with things such as Codex and Claude Code (aka 30 min.).
https://www.theregister.com/2003/06/17/linus_torvalds_leaves...
You might just as well say “The bifurcation of neural spines in sauropods can be likened to Marcel Proust’s seven-volume masterwork À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.”
It would be exactly as meaningful.
sigmoid10•8h ago
Relevant section From Wikipedia:
>Academia.edu is not a university or institution for higher learning and so under current standards it would not qualify for the ".edu" top-level domain. However, since the domain name "Academia.edu" was registered in 1999, before the regulations required .edu domain names to be held solely by accredited post-secondary institutions in the US, it is allowed to remain active and operational. All .edu domain names registered before 2001 were grandfathered in, even if not an accredited USA post-secondary institution.
hshdhdhehd•8h ago
tom1337•6h ago
jeroenhd•6h ago
Don't you need that already anyway? There's no standard for how universities format their academic email addresses.
Plus, .edu only applies to American universities. Services validating if you're a "real" student by checking for .edu emails were quite annoying during my time as a student. A lot of these platforms don't seem to even know .edu is an American thing.
heavensteeth•4h ago
bryanlarsen•3h ago
Considering that many universities provide email addresses to alumni, I don't think that heuristic would work either.
Loughla•1h ago
I wonder what the benefit is.