Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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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.
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Article about bad AI decisions
Thumbnail is AI
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
