There are two types of people: 1. People afraid AI will take their jobs 2. People using AI to take people's jobs
3rd type of people: AGI.
AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
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Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#12I for one can't wait for more contentless boilerplate to appear in every email, pull request, "customer service" conversation, etc
It's like inverse compression:
Employee: Please expand these three bullet points into an email to my manager.
Manager: Please summarize this email from my direct report in three bullet points.
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#13I completely disagree.
I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software.
I will refuse to use AI.
But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other.
You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will drive them to accept more and more of what the AI says with less and less review of it. Thus, they will output stuff that, over time, is more pure AI, becoming more like the AI and more like each other.
Having the human touch will be an advantage, not a disadvantage.
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#14I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.
Can you provide some examples of aspects of your work that you're concerned about?
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#15I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…
You’re an inspiration. I’m going to open an accounting firm and refuse to use calculators.
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#16This is a nonsense headline. This is the equivalent of "Factory automation won't steal your job, companies that buy factory automation will." Democratization of AI tools will have upsides and downsides but non researchers weren't playing around with AI text/chat generation before this last round of simple to use tools came out.
I think there is a big concern that this will destroy the middle class.
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#17I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.
You cannot in good conscience be wishing to do menial tasks for a living, that AI can do for you and instead of you.
That's how doing manual search and replace instead of search/replace in editor or computing stuff in spreadsheet by hand instead of using formulas.
If you think AI's output is suboptimal, right. Maybe find a way to use/train AI better to produce good enough output. But simply wishing to out-robot a robot is pointless.
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#18I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…
> becoming more like the AI...
Current AI systems have a wide variety of outputs. They can totally be asked to complete a task in a 'wildly unusual' way, and will come up with all kinds of non-bland answers, just as you hope to do manually...
If answers being 'non-bland' is your differentiator, then someone will come along and specifically ask an AI for that.
Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#19I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…
You’re an inspiration. I’m going to open an accounting firm and refuse to use calculators.
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Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
#20I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.
Can you provide some examples of aspects of your work that you're concerned about?
I enjoy learning about the design philosophy behind an API, or diving into a library to learn the "off the beaten path" workflows. That's where the magic optimizations or shortcuts live.
So far, copilot just shows me the happiest path options for everything I've tried, and really falls over when it's not something that "Well this API looks like API_functionCall, so your query for must look like API_getX". It rarely does.