Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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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
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Twitter and Tumblr are operating on skeleton crews but are able to make changes.
Craigslist is still around even though it hasn't changed much since the '90's.
There is an entire industry of companies that buy old MMO'S and maintain them at a low cost for a few remaining players.
Southwest Airlines still runs ticketing on a Windows 95 server.
I think you'll see more companies accept managed decline as a business strategy.
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Or the picture is a statement for why artists shouldn't be replaced either. Who can tell.
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You spend all your work day in meetings bragging about yourself while never actually doing any work, aren't you?
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As a software engineer, I’m perfectly happy waiting around until they have to re-hire all of us at consulting rates because their tech stacks are falling the fuck apart
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considering one of the other posts is about "democratizing AI" I lean towards my take.
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I'd argue the CEO is the most important person, usually. We see dipshits like Musk and turn around and bag on all of them.
Think of a business, doesn't matter if it's local or national. How do the employees act? Are they happy and seem to be doing useful work? Are they downcast and depressed looking?
Sometimes it's the local manager staving off corporate bullshit, but company culture mostly rolls down from the CEO. They saying, "Shit rolls downhill.", works both ways.
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And can reproduce the whole business in a weekend with the help of AI. There are no moats anymore.
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Yeah, like bitcoins, NFTs, and Tesla driving themselves.
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On a more generic scale (whatever that means), we went from coding serious stuff in Ada with contracts and designs and architectures, to throwing everything in the trash while forgetting any kind of pride and responsibility in less than 50 years. AI is the next step in that global engineering enshittification (I hate that word but it's appropriate).
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Oh, it is for sure more likely.
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Twitter, Tumblr, Craigslist: those web sites are feature complete and require low maintenance.
Southwest Airlines: good for them, but if the servers have issues, they will lose billions while trying frantically to find the retired guy who maintained that monster.
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Bitcoins are there, aren't they?
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Yes, still a scam and still useless for most people. We've been waiting forever, maybe like AI.
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MBAs are like surgeons; their every solution is to cut.
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Well, also if the guy was just dumping AI generated code arbitrarily into your product, that pretty significantly risks the copyright over the entire product into which the generated stuff was integrated (meaning, anyone can do whatever the fuck they want with it).
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AI will.
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you're not wrong. unfortunately that's not how legal sees it.
not sure what they're snorting, but it must be good shit.
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which is ironical since without them the profits would likely soar. Doing bad shit 101 is to pin the consequences of your actions on others and falsely claim any benefits others have managed to do as your own achievements.
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Stop giving me bad ideas lol
e: I suck at markdown
