If you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you.
AI will never replace bridge salesmen.
Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#22One day they're going to want only senior engineers, but with AI taking all the mid-level jobs there won't be any seniors.
This has arguably been happening with all fields since the beginning of time.
Mere literacy used to qualify you for a management role. I am not sure you could get a job of any kind without being able to read and write now. It gets replaced with more time spent in specialized education.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#23There’s so much mumbo jumbo on that platform that it might as well be the case?
Would be great to know what’s the day of a mid-level engineer at meta like.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#24Does this mean it has already replaced their bottom level engineers?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#25https://archive.is/SHoY9 Maybe. It's certainly possible that this is the case, but I'm hesitant to believe anything Zuckerberg says during a hype-train, especially when saying that has a non-zero chance of boosting the stock. But let's suppose that this is true, I don't think it necessarily implies that fewer engineers are actually hired. It could be that this "AI mid-level" engineer frees up resources for the remain…
>> frees up resources for the remaining engineers to work on something more interesting.
Or forces them to waste all their time babysitting the "AI" workers that can't do basic tasks.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#26This whole "AI replacing engineers" statement would bear a lot more weight if it came from a company that doesn't have in-house model development teams like Shopify and Meta.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#27RE Zuckerberg - How about AI to replace his own role?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#28That is the same person who renamed his company to Meta and went all in into the metaverse and how we all be working in the metaverse. The guy got lucky once, that's all, he is not the modern Oracle.
True, but there is something to be said about making it to his level.
He isnt stupid. Stupid people don't make it this far. They don't. Don't let the media designed for The Commons tell you otherwise. There are too many filters from rational intelligence, social intelligence, willpower, book smarts, delegation/management/leadership, etc... If you fail at one of these, you don't ~10,000x your company's value.
John Mearsheimer said "They made the wrong decision, not an irrational one." And I think that goes for the Metaverse. VR was/is incredible. I personally would find it difficult to bet real money on that question.
He sees something that is reasonable to say. Will mid-level engineers be replaced by AI? If there is a 2x efficiency improvement, what will half those programmers be doing? Will 100% of their midlevel engineers be replaced? No, but I don't think a smart person would make that claim. Do You personally think 0 people will lose their jobs because they arent needed anymore?
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#29I'll believe it when I see it. As it stands Zuck and Meta directly benefit from hyping up AI to the moon.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
#30https://archive.is/SHoY9 Maybe. It's certainly possible that this is the case, but I'm hesitant to believe anything Zuckerberg says during a hype-train, especially when saying that has a non-zero chance of boosting the stock. But let's suppose that this is true, I don't think it necessarily implies that fewer engineers are actually hired. It could be that this "AI mid-level" engineer frees up resources for the remain…
>> frees up resources for the remaining engineers to work on something more interesting. Or forces them to waste all their time babysitting the "AI" workers that can't do basic tasks.
If that's the case, I don't think we have anything to worry about anyway. If productivity actually drops then I suspect that this program will be sunsetted.