Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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Stop giving me bad ideas lol
e: I suck at markdown
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Maybe after Herbert's idiot son dies and someone else gets the rights
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I've been retired for a decade, moron
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None of you can hear. You're all so afraid. There is OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE but you're so locked into your script there's no talking to any of you. It's so sad to see you limit yourselves. But in a way it's revelatory of the truth I'm speaking... the "i'm a porgammer" because ya downloaded other people's work is over, and the path is open to those ready to work and innovate. Good luck, but you don't need that because you've already decided you've lost.
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His books are so shit.
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Exactly!!
Thank God, you get it.This video (which was trending a while ago) explained it pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7GtDMTd3kAnd to add to what you said, people have some huge misunderstandings about how Gen AI work. They think it somehow just copy pastes portions of the art it was trained on, and that's it. That's not the case AT ALL, it's not even close to that.
AI models should be allowed to be trained on copy righted data. If they shouldn't be allowed to do that, then humans shouldn't be allowed to do it either. Why do we give such advice to upcoming writers and musicians and artists, to consume the kind of content that they want to create in the future? To read the kind of books that they want to write like? To listen to the kind of music that they want to create? To look at pieces of art that they want to create? Should humans ALSO be limited to only publuc domain content?? I really don't think so.
Again, Gen AI models don't just copy paste stuff from their training set of data. They understand what makes up that piece of data. Just like a human does.
Thankfully, reasoning models like Deepseek-R1 have started to show the average person how an AI actually reasons and thinks about things and that they don't just spew stuff out of nowhere in the hopes that it makes some kind of sense, slapping pieces of their training data set together to write something that's barely comprehensible. The "Think" tags in such models really helped clarify some huge misunderstandings that some people had. Although, many many people are still left who have a really messed up view of how AIs work, and they somehow speak with such confidence about these topics. It drives me nuts.
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I don't think the point you're trying to make is nearly as clear as you think it is.
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To your point at my last company party i got drunk and kept complimenting people by calling them human.
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It's funny you use southwest as an example in this. I flew with them for the first time this year and it was easily the worst technical experience from an IT perspective that I have ever had. Sure I got from point A to point B, but everything involved with buying the ticket, getting through security, tracking my flight, boarding time, etc was worse than every other flight I've been on. The app was awful and basic features like delay notifications or pulling up the digital ticket made an already expensive as hell experience way more stressful. Windows 95 isn't keeping up
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Software engineer here. You’re completely wrong. The amount of work it takes to maintain and extend functionality to existing software is even bigger than the original cost of building it.
Get some time understanding how software teams work and you’ll understand. There’s a reason C Suites are hoping AI generated code can replace developers. They can’t hire enough of them.
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I love how you spent so much effort to say literally fuck all, instead of presenting a real use case that isn't pumping out AI slop
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Is there really a need to extend functionality like there was 10 years ago?
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But no one is flying Southwest for a best in class experience. It doesn't have to be a great system to use, just a system that does the bare minimum.
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Yes. That’s at least half of the work I do on a daily basis.
How else do companies in the same market compete with each other if they cannot add on to functionality and remain static? That’s a quick way to lose market share to your competition. -
I haven’t seen anybody point this out yet. The owners of tech were never in it for the “tech”. It’s just a tool for them to wiggle their way up to the top. Trying to hit the jackpot so that they can wrest control of society from the current “old rich”.
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What happened to ankor?
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IMO without execs, employees would get paid for a greater percentage of their labor and profits would go down.
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The jabronigrammers before me seem to have made a fine mess without the aid of an AI tool as it is…
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Companies that are incompetently led will fail and companies that integrate new AI tools in a productive and useful manner will succeed.
Using AI to lobby for bailouts? Very clever!
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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.
