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Just got the instructions I'm to learn about how to put AI into my programs at work. So thrilled.
During a meeting not too long ago someone was like "we're looking into using AI to generate these reports."
So they have a dude who gets requests to generate reports. It's not the same reports, but rather custom reports from scattered bits of data throughout a huge database. Ergo you can't really create a program to extract these reports on demand, a person actually has to sit and piece these together.
Now they want to use LLMs to alleviate him, as this isn't technically his role.
They scoffed at me when I asked about how important it is that these reports are accurate, but I mean, it's a valid concern. Best case you get sometimes-hallucinated reports, worst case you get something that wreaks havoc on the database because it just spits out garbage SQL.
I'm very glad that my role doesn't involve that BS.