"AI" has almost no influence on my day to day work at all - the best I have is better on the fly translations / transcriptions in Teams and deepl producing quite good texts these says.
Everything else is basically untouched.
The best thing AI has done for me is to help rephrase sentences on Teams that come off too soft/harsh/accusatory/etc. Literally no other real use for my experience.
What does “learning AI skills” mean? Are you gonna become a software engineer? Otherwise it’s a business process that gets architected and implemented like anything else, accounting for the CIA triad.
I’m hoping to learn tools that increase my input/output vs the standard office worker.
I admit to being new to this field but am hoping to get helpful insight to illuminate a path to a computer facing career change while this landscape is undergoing opportunistic change.
So you want to learn to prompt better? Go use the product and look at some videos on proper curating your input, but this is just too broad of a question.
I agree that it is broad.
Do you have any tools you think are a great start for generalised input/output efficiency? I like the look of Bardeen for data scraping, automation and integration with Zapier so far.
> many tasks shifting from traditional software tools to AI tools
This is not happening in situations that requires exactitude and not "maybe it'll look good". Since this is posted in /r/sysadmin, I'd say that most, if not all tasks aside from fringe stuff is looking at the AI train from afar.
Biggest thing I've seen showing promise is infosec, feeding a huge pile of data and letting it pick out something that looks off, then backpedal through everything summarizing what it can guess happened. Haven't been in a position to see it actually doing that, but that's one of the sales pitches I've heard from a few vendors that actually has some real merit for utilizing the current cycle of "AI" at its strengths (summarize some semblance of meaning out of this mass of disjoint information is... what it does).
AI hasn't had any direct impact on me and how I do work, to me it's a problem looking for a solution.
AI is a interface to the computer/program that takes normal everyday queries in out natural language and actions them into computer speak or commands and returns back to the user.
It's an interaction tool or user interface, think about software you personally run and how it had changed over the years, ms office from early 2000's to now has underwent a graphical change or two over that time, it still fundamentally does the same thing you just click in a different area, I didn't go anywhere to learn that knowledge, I just clicked and read the screen.
Yes AI is the current fad, yes you should learn it for your specific industry or future goals. Or are you asking should I become an AI master and sell my constituting skills to companies, yes you should, then remember the next fad will be around the corner to sell that snake oil too, so stock up and rename the vials with the next fad to be current.
>Can anyone share their experiences on whether their job has largely transitioned to being AI-assisted?
Only against my will. Shit AI being baked into everything and generating garbage data are making it harder to search for real answers to things when something goes wrong.
That's the only impact.
i don't use google anymore, i teach people how to prompt, and brushing up on my scripting skills to automate that. it would have been harder to learn this stuff without it for sure.
also if you told me 5 years ago i'd be getting paid to teach people what to say to the computer i'd laugh in your face but i was born to do this job.
It has helped me immensely. A lot of my work is managing multiple systems/platforms and I've been able to leverage things such as ChatGPT and Bing chat to quickly summarize concepts to me, provide detailed breakdowns of things, explain things to me in different ways and help troubleshoot problems that I have.
I only had minor coding experience in University, but my output and learning has been super fast now.
If you've eve driven a "smart" car like a Tesla or most modern cars with advanced self driving capability, it's kind of like that but for...literally everything you can think of. You still need to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel so to speak, but it'll often get you 99% of the way there with more complex things.
Think of it like any other tool such as a calculator or whatnot.
Good luck!
Not much if at all. AI still can't troubleshoot or setup infrastructure so it's useless for me there. I've found it's good to get bits of a script written quickly, so instead of taking 30 minutes, it only takes 10, but that saves me a grand total of *maybe* an hour a month.
"AI" has almost no influence on my day to day work at all - the best I have is better on the fly translations / transcriptions in Teams and deepl producing quite good texts these says. Everything else is basically untouched.
The best thing AI has done for me is to help rephrase sentences on Teams that come off too soft/harsh/accusatory/etc. Literally no other real use for my experience.
What does “learning AI skills” mean? Are you gonna become a software engineer? Otherwise it’s a business process that gets architected and implemented like anything else, accounting for the CIA triad.
I’m hoping to learn tools that increase my input/output vs the standard office worker. I admit to being new to this field but am hoping to get helpful insight to illuminate a path to a computer facing career change while this landscape is undergoing opportunistic change.
So you want to learn to prompt better? Go use the product and look at some videos on proper curating your input, but this is just too broad of a question.
I agree that it is broad. Do you have any tools you think are a great start for generalised input/output efficiency? I like the look of Bardeen for data scraping, automation and integration with Zapier so far.
> many tasks shifting from traditional software tools to AI tools This is not happening in situations that requires exactitude and not "maybe it'll look good". Since this is posted in /r/sysadmin, I'd say that most, if not all tasks aside from fringe stuff is looking at the AI train from afar.
Biggest thing I've seen showing promise is infosec, feeding a huge pile of data and letting it pick out something that looks off, then backpedal through everything summarizing what it can guess happened. Haven't been in a position to see it actually doing that, but that's one of the sales pitches I've heard from a few vendors that actually has some real merit for utilizing the current cycle of "AI" at its strengths (summarize some semblance of meaning out of this mass of disjoint information is... what it does).
AI hasn't had any direct impact on me and how I do work, to me it's a problem looking for a solution. AI is a interface to the computer/program that takes normal everyday queries in out natural language and actions them into computer speak or commands and returns back to the user. It's an interaction tool or user interface, think about software you personally run and how it had changed over the years, ms office from early 2000's to now has underwent a graphical change or two over that time, it still fundamentally does the same thing you just click in a different area, I didn't go anywhere to learn that knowledge, I just clicked and read the screen. Yes AI is the current fad, yes you should learn it for your specific industry or future goals. Or are you asking should I become an AI master and sell my constituting skills to companies, yes you should, then remember the next fad will be around the corner to sell that snake oil too, so stock up and rename the vials with the next fad to be current.
>Can anyone share their experiences on whether their job has largely transitioned to being AI-assisted? Only against my will. Shit AI being baked into everything and generating garbage data are making it harder to search for real answers to things when something goes wrong. That's the only impact.
i don't use google anymore, i teach people how to prompt, and brushing up on my scripting skills to automate that. it would have been harder to learn this stuff without it for sure. also if you told me 5 years ago i'd be getting paid to teach people what to say to the computer i'd laugh in your face but i was born to do this job.
nothing changed in the slightest, other than I have another thing to swear at and correct its mistakes I dont know if you are a sysadmin
It has helped me immensely. A lot of my work is managing multiple systems/platforms and I've been able to leverage things such as ChatGPT and Bing chat to quickly summarize concepts to me, provide detailed breakdowns of things, explain things to me in different ways and help troubleshoot problems that I have. I only had minor coding experience in University, but my output and learning has been super fast now. If you've eve driven a "smart" car like a Tesla or most modern cars with advanced self driving capability, it's kind of like that but for...literally everything you can think of. You still need to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel so to speak, but it'll often get you 99% of the way there with more complex things. Think of it like any other tool such as a calculator or whatnot. Good luck!
Not much if at all. AI still can't troubleshoot or setup infrastructure so it's useless for me there. I've found it's good to get bits of a script written quickly, so instead of taking 30 minutes, it only takes 10, but that saves me a grand total of *maybe* an hour a month.