Right, questioning the value of a chatbot is a good indication someone hasn't had real job. Totally legit characterization that doesn't make the whole thing sound like a confidence game.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> questioning the value of a chatbot
Original commenter was questioning the value of the entire field.
> hasn’t had a real job”
This is different than “haven't worked in a 'real' business”.
If you really had wanted to get into the "HN rules" game, you could at least have cited "don't be snarky"
But yes, also snarky.
That wasn't even remotely my goal and I'm disappointed that my choice of words made it seem like it was. I purposefully added quotes to the word 'real' in my comment since any business is a real business and made it clear it was an assumption, not a fact.
It's just that many tech workers often haven't worked outside of tech and therefore are blind to issues outside of the tech world, like manual data entry, because they assume that must all be automated. It's exactly the same the other way around, people in what I called 'real' businesses are blind to what tech can to to improve business processes because they have no clue about what's available and possible.
Translation: “Real” businesses sort of make their own gravity.
You don't want to know how many companies still get paper bills scan them and add them to their system half manually.
And normal people without scripting experience never had the tools to just do a little bit of text analysis without tools like chargpt.