Where have we seen that before? The computerisation of companies and governments in the 90s? As I recall the most junior entry level jobs went causing massive skill development problems and shortages of trained staff to fill vacancies that went on for years.
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The rich hedonistic elites do not care for their lives are too short and too fast.
If all options to escape judgement are exhausted, they will just leave the server.
~~Read~~ Not optimize shareholder value
LLMs cannot do anything importing a library or a google search couldn't already do better.
Googles first results page is all paid for. LLMs with search tools crush Google. I use Kagi since Google has become useless.
I used "google" as a generic term for internet search, I use DuckDuckGo with an AI slop blacklist.
Which blacklist please?
I too use Kagi. Could never go back to Google. It saves me a ton of time each day and I gladly pay for it. Can't recommend it enough!
AI should replace CEOs they’re all overpaid morons
So I've been utilizing the big LLMs to help increase my productivity at work. And I have to say, yes, it absolutely makes me more productive.
However, I can only be more productive because I already have 25 years of experience in my field and I am already a senior and I can guide the "AI" to what I really need help with and I can see the mistakes it makes.
There is absolutely no way someone who hasn't already been doing this job for 25 years would be able to just sit down with an AI assistant and replace me.
And my company has not hired any associate level employees who could replace me. All my peers are 5-7 years away from retirement. I'm 11 years away from retirement.
The problem is that it doesn't matter how useful and irreplaceable you know you are, if a company decides it's replacing you with AI, they'll do it anyway. They may decide later that they were wrong, and you were right, but it doesn't matter, you're still unemployed.
Companies shoot themselves in the foot all the time. You can't count on them to do the smart thing, even if it's obvious. The second some C-Level gets these the idea that they can save money by firing a bunch of people, it's going to happen, no matter how ill-advised.
Yeah LLM is a useful idiot that somehow read all the programming books. It can spit out a coherent sentence yet it doesn’t understand it. Comprehension is left to the user. It’s an advanced rubber duck
All a LLM gives you is three virtual interns in an expert's trenchcoat.
I just started messing with making a server, I’ve never done it before, never really wrote code before except an Arduino blinking light. I don’t think I would have gotten the server done, at least as well or as quickly without an llm. That said, even I notice it fucking up a lot and losing the plot.
I have found it really useful in identifying useful stuff in scrap piles, one of my hobbies is scrounging so that’s been good.
I had a manager tell the team that an LLM said we should be able to do a technical task so we should look into that.
I died a little inside.
I also use it, but exactly I know what I am looking for and what is BS...
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They don’t care. That’s not this quarter.
Short term gains with no regards for the future. It's the capitalist way.
and they wonder how China keeps coming out on top
A big, giant "no shit" moment.
And they'll just hire more H-1B visa employees for more and more smaller roles, and they have them in an even tighter place than they could American workers. It's not like they're blind to the issue. It's the plan.
There is an ironically a huge opportunity for upheaval of corporations because they are actually giving up huge amounts of control and leverage on their part.
Like at what point is their essentially company who's sole job being brand making and management of contracts going to be side stepped?
I think offshoring/nearshoring is booming right now. Tons of "Global Capability Centers" being built. It's even cheaper than H-1B.
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