Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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I studied webdev and coding the hard way and I loved it. I felt unstoppable. But I still never got the job. But watching those people fail is still quite satisfying.
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Article about bad AI decisions
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Lmao
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We're at a point of effective monopoly and vastly increased costs of creating competition.
The spigot of free money has been turned off, so most projects today need to have a planned out ROI, which is why enshitification has become such a big thing recently. Improvement for competition sake is out the door unless the incumbent is weak or a jump is needed as the existing revenue stream is collapsing.
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What are you going on about?
I don’t work in a space with a monopoly.
My employer doesn’t have free money. They compete in a huge market and earn money while doing so.
Not every company has the business model you described. The world would not run if that was the case.
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Yeah, but a lot of the discussion has been about those companies given how well they pay and how dominant they are in the industry.
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I'm an IP attorney whose been pretty specialized in ML-enabled technologies for a decade now, and have worked in-house for fortune 500 companies so I'm pretty familiar with how these queries are often handled, especially at multinats. There honestly probably isn't someone in your legal with all three of seniority, understanding and keeping up with the legal nuances, and understanding of the underlying technologies. The overlap in my experience is few and far between.
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what profits? the ones that end up in the pockets of the executives?
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Find one named Iain and radicalize him! So it would be the Butler Iain Jihad.
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Exactly. And if AI somehow finds a way to do it, end users will find even more ways to do it wrong
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I ever so slightly miss all of the Internet Explorer 6 hacks. Sure it was utterly stupid they were required and we are in a much better position now, but it's less fun now. Everything just uses Chromium.
Fortunately Safari is still utter garbage so we've got that.
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The CEO and C Suite are the least important people in a company. They can be changed out with relatively little interruption and it takes a lot longer to see the effects. However, you have a on the ground workforce stop producing and the effects are immediate and long lasting.
