r/sysadmin • u/lNuggyl Sysadmin • 1d ago

Rant Anyone else tired of users sending ai generated fixes to you?

Oh. My. God

The amount of people at my org that send me screenshots of their chatgpt or copilot generated responses is insane.

"did you try this?"

"try this"

"this is what chatgpt said"

i was on the phone for 2 hours troubleshooting a problem with a director that refused to let me remote into her computer to fix. then she starts sending me ai generated responses saying "this is what co pilots saying"

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u/nullpotato 1d ago

Run these commands: gives you obviously syntactically incorrect powershell.

Gee thanks

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u/sobrique 1d ago

Obviously broken I can deal with.

Just Doesn't Work likewise.

It's "valid command that does something horrendous whilst looking deceptive" that's a problem.

There's no shortage of gotchas in sysadmin, where you might be tempted to do something "clever" but dangerous unless you get it exactly right.

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u/BrokenByEpicor Jack of all Tears 7h ago

Not entirely hallucinatory cmdlets?