Tell me about it lol. I've got to.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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'At some point you've got to make money'
Hey hey hey, now, that's loser talk. Here, c'mon, let's snort a ton of coke.
That sounds like something The Wolf of Wall Street would say
I'm not much of an AI skeptic compared to most on Lemmy. I think the technology is incredibly useful and probably beneficial to society if we can remove the control of the ruling class.
That said I truly don't understand how the AI business model is supposed to work. I'm sure there is some market for businesses, governments, etc., basically people who have too much money who may want to pay for the latest and greatest models.
But I don't really see the average consumer doing this when slightly less good versions will almost certainly be available for free. And the above customers will not be able to support the level of investment that's going on right now.
technology is incredibly useful and probably beneficial to society
For what? It's not reliable enough to actually automate anything and people that use it regularly inevitably stop checking the output and start falling victim to hallucinations. It's pretty good at rifling through social media posts which I don't think is good for society and it's OK as a frontline support system but even that they normally go too far and just make it infuriating
If you don't understand why AI is going to be akin to a failed industrial revolution, maybe give this scenario a read. Here a think tank has written a forcast on how AI will potentially unfold and influence the global future.
How is the technology useful?
For the love of Asimov, someone please explain.
It is useful for programming, I know a lot of people here don't want to hear that, but denying it now is being willfully ignorant. No it isn't good enough that you can tell it "just go do the thing" and then accept what it gives you without checking it, but using it as a tool as a professional can very much improve your work and how quickly you do things.
For me recently I used it to unpick a nasty race condition that was occasionally causing a program I was working on to lock up and couldn't figure out why. It took some back and forth with it but it did help me figure it out when before I had been stumped.
I do work in software, and my main focus is on code review, as we work with money, and things have happened due to many factors.
I DO NOT want any more work being done. Fuck that. It's hard reviewing 'normal' amount of code, multiplying it will backfire horrendously.
I do not need people not being able to figure out their bugs. It's the most important part of the job, and not being able to fix it quickly costs us a lot.
If you need to fix something in a library you don't understand... maybe you should review it before using? There are situations when it's not possible, usually in low risk fields, frontends and such, but even then, we (IT in general) produce so much shit for no real gain. And we need LESS of it, not more.
it’s not useful for programming and it makes code more verbose, poorly structured, and requires too many attempts to get a mildly useful block.
Everyone I work with that uses it is worse at their job than before they started using it, and I've lost the ability to teach them how to actually do good work because telling the c-suite they're 10x now (even though they're producing only slightly more code and more issues) makes the c-suite happy. I could believe that some people have made small improvements to their workflows but its obvious to anyone competent that it's not as big as an improvement as they'd have you believe and the vast majority is just people getting addicted to the slot machine, deskilling, and creating inferior output.
I want to see everyone hop on the IPOs and ride them all the way down to the floor!
Fuck AI
Probably the least controversial take on the threadiverse but i stumpled upon Ed Zitrons Blog like maybe two years ago. I've read a few posts of him since then and i just watch the shitshow unfold tbh. Its not that i 100% believe in his predictions. But he has made his point. I'm just an average fuck. I dont know shit. But it was so far the most believable and backed up assessment of the current AI situation.
I make barely enough money to afford my rent in bumfuck europe. How the fuck am i more informed about AI then some CEO? WTF.
- replacing human workers is their fondest dream so they want to believe so hard
- they have FOMO "everyone else is doing it and I don't want to lose out"
- everyone else is doing it and if they didn't do it and were wrong, it would be worse for their reputation than following the pack and being wrong
- c suite types talk to each other and they've formed an echo chamber
In summary, CEOs (of large public companies anyway - your mom and pop plumber could also be a CEO) are not smarter than the average person. Just more amoral and having the connections to be CEOs
The last 2 bullets are so damn true. And trying to argue that is just pointless. So I’ve shifted to the money part of it and have asked “how are you preparing for the bubble to burst?” and back it up with that data.
It's not that you're more informed. It's simply that you have to worry about consequences of mismanaging money where a CEO... well, hasn't.