Mojo Request I'm not trying to depress you, it's just that if you're still thinking of AI as "glorified Google search", then you're really not keeping up with this

[Peen Simmons]

I hope this is the case, and I hope I'm not coming off as an AI cheerleader here. I do appreciate the efficiency and drudgery-reduction it has brought to my job, but on the balance I'm very scared of the near-term implications of the speed at which this is improving combined with the hunger by companies to maximize profits. Why hire a team of coders when "AI can do it" for a fraction of the price - and unlike a year or two ago, AI actually can do it at least as good as that team of coders, if not better? "Well they can train for other jobs" - which ones? The number of industries this is going to impact beyond computer programming in the next few years is going to be very large...

It really sucks and I (and other friends of mine who are more tech-adjacent in their jobs than I am) are literally losing sleep over it. I get the comparison to earlier technologies / apps / platforms, but this seems inherently different to me at a very foundational level. I would love to be proven wrong...

What we need is a very big wrench that we can throw into the gears of a very big data center. Or a very large guillotine.

 

[Chicken Man]

It really sucks and I (and other friends of mine who are more tech-adjacent in their jobs than I am) are literally losing sleep over it. I get the comparison to earlier technologies / apps / platforms, but this seems inherently different to me at a very foundational level. I would love to be proven wrong...

I think it will be closer to industrialization than, say, iTunes.

 

[Dudeman1967]

Predictions are usually wrong or very wrong. This one is seriously oversold or a force that you won't be able to avoid. I'm impressed by the technology and if it improves at the current rate it will be unavoidable very soon.
I'm glad I'm retired. If not I would be thinking about a job shift to something implimenting AI.

When email was brand new I had a VP of R&D boss who said email was stupid and not going to last. He had his admin assistant print all his emails. He would hand write a reply then have it typed back into email. What an idiot. Also who promotes a proud Luddite to the head of technolgy development?

 

[Lerxst]

I might be seeing the fallout from this current state of vibe coding first hand in the next few weeks.....I hope not. I also won't be surprised if the decision makers, far removed from the work, decide paying someone offshore 1/2 -1/3 what I make to let claude vibe code all day makes $ence.

Edit: I'm legitimately impressed with the improvements we've seen with the IDE integrated LLMs over of the past few months. We're still seeing that in most situations that deviate from public & private facing documentation (or relies on highly distributed documentation that is not obviously linked), an experienced dev is needed to get the project past the LLM's limits. But yeah, those limits are way different then they were just months ago.

 

[Knox in Box]

We had an asshole at work that I reprimanded for studying for his classes instead of actually doing the job he was paid for. Every night or late shift we had he would wait for me to leave and then set up an office space complete with laptop and binders full of materials, do his studies and leave 75% of the work to his colleagues and not even have the concept of hiding this distraction from work when something like the Military Police come through the guardhouse.

People complained, I asked him how long he thought this would go on and he got pissed off and said (sorta yelled) that he had another 2 semesters.

I put an end to it, he proceeded to attempt at any turn to make my workplace hell. A truest narcissist I ever met in person.

What was he learning? Website development
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I really shouldn't, but I sort of chuckle every time I see an ad for those AI, one click website development apps. And no, it's not him doing the apps. We have folks that are still friends with him.