>As for the comparison to AI, the problem is, AI *must* be told what to do. It won't magically grow into a "mature developer." That's not a natural progression. It always assumes that the prompt accurately describes what it should do. It has no way to know that the prompt was wrong or incomplete in the first place.

This is wrong. You seem to be unaware that current sycophancy in mainline models is a specific choice made in AI model weights to maximize people returning to the model.

It's highly likely that one of the solutions that will be used in specialist fields where rejection of the input if it's insufficient in some critical way is reduction in pro-sycophancy model weighing. I.e. model will actually have a much greater ability to tell you "I can't do that Dave" and then explain why it can't do it.

Some narrow specialist models already do this through ControlNet style "AI that corrects and guides human AI prompts for optimal outcomes", where it will tell you in case of some of the common prompting errors before passing the input to the worker model.

So you do understand the problem then.

Would it then be fair in your view to reframe the specific problem you have into the two following components?

1. This is the worst AI will ever be at being manageable by people. It will continue to improve until it's better, just like what happened with everything where AI is already better.
2. You can manage AI current gen AI with similar methods you'd need in managing your average "yes saar, of course saar, I'll go do what you say right away saar" Indian developer stereotype.

Notably, once you accept the second one, you quickly realize that you can use ControlNet style methodology of "just use a specialized AI to curate your inputs into your preferred task specific model". And for even better results, you can add model alloying into this specialized AI, so it can utilize the best way to handle the sycophantic worker. "Have a different worker check entirety of his work to see where the failures lie and fix them".

I can tell you never had to do managerial work, as you're unaware that one of the most common stereotypes of a worker. The guy who will say "yes boss" no matter what is asked of him, and you'll find out you asked too much of him only when he fails to do the task correctly and this failure is reported on. Often by someone else.

This is even worse with people that come from Indian culture, where "yes boss" is the expected answer regardless of how impossible the ask is.

It's always been like this. I remember the huge cuts to our teams after 9/11. We were dealing with H1Bs back then as well....

What you're describing is fundamentally a managerial skill set.

A lot of software developers struggle with those, and quite a few are borderline incapable of it. That's going to be increasingly a problem, unless we manage to get AI trained on individual preferences, and correcting their responses into proper AI prompts. I.e. narrow model that AI incapable worker can interact with you generate a prompt for the major model that will do the actual work.

Ironically to get your computer to do what you want to, you need to train on how to use it correctly.

Prompting correctly is a part of using it correctly.

Is it worker's fault when manager fails to explain the task correctly?

This is the part that most of the "I can't make AI work" crowd miss. When you give AI instructions, it's like giving instructions to a human worker.

You need to understand its strengths and its weaknesses at least to a reasonable degree, and you need to be careful delineating what task entails, what it doesn't entail, what's a priority and what is of low relevance.

A lot of very good experts at their specific field make for horrible managers because they don't know how to explain aforementioned things. They only know how to do it themselves.

This is the most common point of failure both when leading people and when prompting AI in my experience. Essentially all those leadership skills? They matter a lot now, even for mere subject matter experts, because prompting AI is leadership just as ordering a person to perform a set of tasks with a specific goal is leadership.

Before most subject matter experts didn't need any meaningful leadership skills. They just needed to do the things related to subject they're expert in, and leadership was handled by people with a different skill set (less deep and more broad expertise coupled with at least some leadership skills).

This is a training problem.

Not of AI mind you, but of human doing the prompting. When AI fails this badly, it means prompt has poor instructions.

This is fixed by training people to prompt better. It's similar to teaching people how to be good managers. You need knowledge in subject matter, but your primary expertise should in be identifying, segmenting and communicating each individual part of the task with high precision.

This is not easy, and it's not the same skill set as that of typical coder.

500 panels per 1000 m^2 is pretty achievable, accounting for whatever roof penetrations and facilities that need to be there. Some of those buildings are outright colossal. Plus, nobody is saying the data centers needs to be completely powered by solar.
Here's the thing: the lions share of power consumption on the grid traditionally comes from cooling. Most cooling needs, outside of the context of data centers, coincides with the sunniest, highest production times for solar panels. There is a great synergy to take advantage of here. It might be that a such a data center / solar farm farm actually produces net power for a portion of the day, covering for residential use or car charging etc. but is a net consumer off peak hours, when it's more efficient to use other means to supply power when most other consumers aren't using as much. Net effect is better grid utilization and reduced costs all around.

It's hatred horse breeders and horse messengers had for cars and their drivers.

Are speed cameras a type of license plate tracking? Seems like it to me.

You would be surprised how long someone can languish with ill health. The chances that you will just 'drop dead' without a lot of suffering from bad health choices is pretty slim.

I do lots of walking and hiking. It's pretty hard to hurt yourself and our entire neurophysiology is based on it.

I've worked with both the state of CA and AT&T.

You're goddamn right I'm full of hate.

Hmm, I hate CA, and I hate AT&T ( may both rot in hell ). I literally can't lose no matter who "wins".

I hope they both destroy each other somehow.