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So scary to realize these business barrons have zero qualms with putting our lives in the hands of untested technology to make a few more buck to light their already full coffers and that it’s already happening with AI
they are hoping to make money, before someone else holds the bag, its not thier problem if they can kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with.
It's because their positions are often like that "rest of the owl" drawing meme, only it makes sense to them because other people do the filling in of the details and solving the problems. So when an AI can produce the early part of that drawing and confidently promises that it can fill in the rest of the owl, they see it as the same as what their teams were doing prior and unironically believe that them saying "ok, go do that" is the important part, so an LLM should be as competent as a team of engineers.
It takes an engineer who knows the material well enough to see that LLM accuracy is incredibly low, even when it seems to be making sense.
I bet AI is especially enticing to those of the "It can't be that hard" mentality.
Conversations about AI aside for a moment, God bless random trade dudes making YouTube videos. Thanks to them, I've learned about 80% of most jobs can be picked up with minimal training.
This was my take until even this year, but honestly it has improved since a year or even six months ago.
It still lies to you and needs to be given pointers constantly, and many other caveats, but the reality is that all of the investment and coming up with the failure loop perfected by Claude Code changed things IMO.
It's really depressing to think about how all of these rich fucks set a trillion dollars on fire to eliminate one of the only good paying careers available. It's almost like it's time to riot or something. 🤷
I still don't think that means the c suite will be able to fire all of the programmers. It'll still be the nerds' job to get the robot to produce the software. It's likely just to going to make life more miserable for the remaining programmers because more and more will be expected of less of them.
The American business model is obsessed with cutting costs to raise profits. Increasing market share and developing new streams of revenue all have an investment cost and take time. Cutting labour has no immediate cost and it makes line go up for the next quarter, and that's what their compensation packages are dependent on.
That's why the idea of AI is so attractive to pretty much every CEO, it's the business hack to reduce labour cost that they've been looking for since we outlawed slavery.
i would like to see the day when a PE firm buys ford, GM.
It's scary, but also very unsurprising. Companies haven't seen their workers as actual human beings for many years. That's the bigger problem that is behind all of this.
They have a department called "human resources". Come on. They see humans as just another resource.
And that department exists to protect the company from said "resource"
Just look at the workers rights movement. Capitalists can, and will crush you like an plump ant under their boot. It's only regulation that gives them a moment's pause.
No company ever has your best interest at heart.
Yes nothing has changed.