Finally a good feature from chat-gpt. I wish every chat-gpt user a very lose all your work made in it. Also, reading the article, the guy seemingly never made any real backups and completely relied on him being able to use chat-gpt discussions as data archives he could always refer back to. It always astounds me how people who work in research can be so completely ignorant about backing up the fucking data.
As someone who has worked in customer support IT, this guy sounds like the worst kind of guy that you can be saddled with trying to help with PC issues. Unbothered with how things work, just so long as they do and entirely unable to cope with even the smallest disruption if his self-made and arcane process. Of course in this case it wasn’t a small disruption, but that only makes the helpless meltdown worse.
My anxiety always makes me assume I’m the worst person bothering IT with my issues- but these things remind me I’m on the high end of the tech literacy bell curve (scary!). TYFYS o7
I’ve only lost meaningful work once through lazy backup - that was enough for me! In my work I store files locally and have a backup on an external hard drive as well as on a server. All organized with the same file structure so it’s a simple dragon drop to back things up. The thought of not backing up data or archiving it in any meaningful gives me too much anxiety otherwise lol.
Finally a good feature from chat-gpt. I wish every chat-gpt user a very lose all your work made in it. Also, reading the article, the guy seemingly never made any real backups and completely relied on him being able to use chat-gpt discussions as data archives he could always refer back to. It always astounds me how people who work in research can be so completely ignorant about backing up the fucking data.
I wouldn’t even trust any amount of career-essential documents to be solely stored in Google Drive, and people are doing it in a fucking chat bot.
It’s like projects keeping all their documentation in discord channels.
As someone who has worked in customer support IT, this guy sounds like the worst kind of guy that you can be saddled with trying to help with PC issues. Unbothered with how things work, just so long as they do and entirely unable to cope with even the smallest disruption if his self-made and arcane process. Of course in this case it wasn’t a small disruption, but that only makes the helpless meltdown worse.
My anxiety always makes me assume I’m the worst person bothering IT with my issues- but these things remind me I’m on the high end of the tech literacy bell curve (scary!). TYFYS o7
I’ve only lost meaningful work once through lazy backup - that was enough for me! In my work I store files locally and have a backup on an external hard drive as well as on a server. All organized with the same file structure so it’s a simple dragon drop to back things up. The thought of not backing up data or archiving it in any meaningful gives me too much anxiety otherwise lol.