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I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already

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Re: I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already

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Post by risyachka »

eloisant wrote: post #56
risyachka wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone uses or will use ai, there is no learning curve so this is not an advantage

Yes there is, for coding for example you need to learn how to use the tools efficiently otherwise you'll get garbage... And end up either discarding everything and claiming AI is crap, or push it to prod and have to deal with the garbage code in prod.

Just open codex or claude code, add md file with basic instructions and tell it what you want. there is no "tooling" or "workflows" around it. "swarm of agents" is not a thing.

And if your agent is running in background for hours then you are doing something wrong and wasting time.

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Post by swat535 »

risyachka wrote: post #31
agentifysh wrote: post #3

The only prediction that I think is robust is: Those who use AI as tool today will replace those that aren't tomorrow. Same situation with internet, we saw a bubble but ultimately those that changed their business around it monopolized various industries where they were slow to react. Some jobs will be replaced outright but most will use AI tools and we might see reduced wages/positions available for a very long time…

Everyone uses or will use ai, there is no learning curve so this is not an advantage

I think a better prediction would be that the current (or future?) generation Software Engineers will migrate to building and developing AI systems, basically working for OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

The future of computing could very well be AI (and related fields) + Robotics + Hardware .. instead of Software + Hardware.

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Post by frenchmajesty »

Avicebron wrote: post #22

I pretty much agree but using "As an AI engineer myself" or a variation of that in your blog post should get you ridiculed. Who exactly are you trying to impress/differentiate yourself from?

OP here. I should've added that clarification but it was to say as someone with the "most to gain" financially or professionally from AI becoming more important, I'm still against this content trend and find it is unproductive.

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Post by criley2 »

moron4hire wrote: post #51
criley2 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If jobs were based on self-perceived value addition there would never be a layoff ever Your executive team is going to "remove" non-AI folks regardless of their claims about efficiency. Just like they forced you to return to office while ignoring the exact same efficiency claims. They had realestate to protect. Now they have AI to protect.

"Now they have AI to protect," you're ultimately talking about corporate leadership being susceptible to the sunk cost fallacy here. But AI investment is a particularly easy sunk cost to get out of compared to real estate. Real estate has lease obligations and moving costs; it will cost you a lot more in the short term to get rid of your real estate. AI you could just stop using and immediately see cost reduction.

The entire American tech industry will implode in a bubble pop if AI doesn't pan out.

I argue that real estate was a smaller problem than this AI bubble behemoth they've created. And now everyones retirement is wrapped up in it.

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