Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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There are thousands of different diffusion models, not all of them are trained on copyright protected work.
In addition, substantially transformative works are allowed to use content that is otherwise copy protected under the fair use doctrine.
It's hard to argue that a model, a file containing the trained weight matrices, is in any way substantially similar to any existing copyrighted work. TL;DR: There are no pictures of Mickey Mouse in a GGUF file.
Fair use has already been upheld in the courts concerning machine learning models trained using books.
For instance, under the precedent established in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust and upheld in Authors Guild v. Google, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that mass digitization of a large volume of in-copyright books in order to distill and reveal new information about the books was a fair use.
And, perhaps more pragmatically, the genie is already out of the bottle. The software and weights are already available and you can train and fine-tune your own models on consumer graphics cards. No court ruling or regulation will restrain every country on the globe and every country is rapidly researching and producing generative models.
The battle is already over, the ship has sailed.
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I wonder if there will eventually be a real Butlerian Jihad
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this post is about programmers being replaced by ai. the writer seems ok with artists being replaced.
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https://defragzone.substack.com/p/run-massive-models-on-crappy-machines
the author doesn't oppose AI, just programmers being replaced for it.
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I don't disagree with that, but there's so many "wtf is this shit" moments that defy all logic and known practices.
like for example, six different branches of the same repo that deploy to two different environments in a phased rollout. branches 1-3 are prod, 4-6 are dev. phases go 3,1,2 for prod and 6,4,5 for dev. they are numbered as well.
also, the pipelines create a new bucket every build. so there's over 700 S3 buckets with varying versions of the frontend....that then gets moved into....another S3 bucket with public access.
my personal favorite is the publicly accessible and non-access controlled lambdas with hard-coded lambda evocation URLs in them. lambda A has a public access evocation URL configured instead of using API Gateway. Lambda B has that evocation URL hard coded into the source that's deployed.
there's so much negligent work here I swear they did it on purpose.
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Literally anybody who thought about the idea for more than ten seconds already realized this a long time ago; apparently this blog post needed to be written for the people who didn't do even that...
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A reason I didn't see listed: they are just asking for competition. Yes by all means get rid of your most talented people who know how your business is run.
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But people still complain about CGI in film, likely for the same reason it was criticised in the past that you mention - it looks like ass, if done cheaply (today) or with early underdeveloped tech (back in the past). Similarly so, the vast majority of AI-generated images look lazy, generic (duh) and basically give me the "ick".
Yeah, maybe they'll get better in the future. But does that mean that we can't complain about their ugliness (or whatever other issue we have with them) now?
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You underestimate the dumbassery of Pencil-Pushers in tech companies
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I was a mf'ing hard core rider of the tech boom, was a sought-after consultant, and I and my colleagues rode the razor's edge of what was possible in online gaming for 2 decades... and I can tell you now, AI presents to creative individuals who have a clue, the greatest opportunity ever handed to them. Look at how AI destroys things and "invent" solutions and you'll pay yourself well.
Now more than ever a "programmer" is a guy that can plug other people's modules together and pray it works. Notice that now and git gud at what you do.
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That's what I expect if I'm fired and rehired: at least +25% on my salary.
We hired a junior at work from a prestigious university. He uses ChatGPT all the time but denies it. I know that because all his comments in the code are written like some new Tolkien book. Last time I checked his code, I told him it had something like 20 bugs and told him how to fix that because I'm not a bad guy. The next day, he came back with a program that was very very different. Not knowing how to apply my fixes, he used another prompt and the whole thing was different with new bugs. I told my boss I was not wasting time on that shit again.
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It works for a while. Keep a few seniors and everything will be fine. Then you want new features and that's when shit hits the fan. Want me to add a few buttons? 1 month because I have to study all the random shit that was generated last week.
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Yesterday the test team asked me for 3 new features to help them. I thought about it for a few minutes and understood that these features are all incompatible. You can get one and only one. Good luck finding an AI that understands this.
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I disagree. For example:
Now, six months later, you realize that your AI-generated software is riddled with security holes. Whoops! Your database is leaking private financial data like a sieve
We have seen this a thousand times before there was an AI. AI is like a cheap contractor out of school and companies who use it extensively will get the same results. It's a pragmatic thing, not some phantasm about bullies. I have told so many time "I told you so" to previous managers that I trust it will happen again and again.
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yeah, though for questions people on stackoverflow would consider stupid or beneath them, ai was superior as it never gets angry with you.
How i see the ai is kind of like being able to ask the knowledge it consists of questions. But since it has also been fed with garbage and its all there like ingredients of a soup, who knows what affects what so you really dont want to trust it too much. -
Look at how AI destroys things and “invent” solutions and you’ll pay yourself well.
Yeah, I'm seeing the absolute deluge of AI shovelware games. I know it generates money due to sheer volume, but to me that's just like all those online courses of "how to dropship". You're being one of the worst literal definitions of "waste of resources".
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The jihad starts with the tech bros' butlers, that'd be very poetic
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there’s so much negligent work here I swear they did it on purpose.
Depending on the place, it's the "work insurance" - companies would usually think twice before firing the only person who can understand the spaghetti. Now they won't need said person to generate "working" code
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executives act like parasites
WE MAED TEH PROFITZ!!!1!!1
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Given that even stack overflow is being mostly answered by AI, don't expect that to actually get better, unless you're counting on sensitive coding data being "legally" siphoned from AI users
