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AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD

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Re: AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD

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Post by dexwiz »

I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop in terms of costs to serve for AI before I start freaking out. Maybe a super AI could replace an engineering org, but how much will it cost? Developer wages are already being depressed by off-shoring. The era of the $300k/yr app dev is over. AI companies can burn cash to acquire customers for one off prompts. But what happens when you are severing multiple prompts a minute? You are going to want to charge by usage instead of monthly. Will this be cheaper than a human? Maybe. Probably not if there another major disruption to the chip supply chain.

Also AI demos really well for basic problems with lots of examples on the internet. Anyone who has used LLMs for niche domains knows that its not as reliable. I think this means Business Students are impressed since they use problems they learned in class, for which they are many example solutions. Worse even are the demos of AI "correcting" itself.

Re: AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD

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Post by sandspar »

I've lately been seeing a more frequent use of "business students" and "MBAs" as a slur. It's disappointing to see it on Hacker News as well. Slurring people with terms like "Karens" and "boomers" and "MBAs" seems better suited to low discourse places like Reddit. I had thought that Hacker News was more fair.

Also, the post itself seems born of a dark worldview. A single paragraph contains the following words: narrative, dead, scary, insecure, problematic.

It depicts an author who has a dark worldview and who uses dehumanizing slurs for other people. I find it disturbing.

Re: AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD

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Post by anotherhue »

sandspar wrote: post #6

I've lately been seeing a more frequent use of "business students" and "MBAs" as a slur. It's disappointing to see it on Hacker News as well. Slurring people with terms like "Karens" and "boomers" and "MBAs" seems better suited to low discourse places like Reddit. I had thought that Hacker News was more fair. Also, the post itself seems born of a dark worldview. A single paragraph contains the following words: narrat…

You're not wrong, but I think you're not acknowledging the underlying truth to these claims.

By and large, the desire to obtain an MBA and move into a management-consultancy/thought-leadership type role is directly connected to a preference to avoid doing hard, meaningful work and preferring instead to operate one layer above a grift.

People who choose this path are explicitly saying they wish to operate as your superior, and your work product is theirs to dispense with as their vision decrees.

I doubt there's any new human behaviour at play here, but it does seem to be more encouraged/accepted to be a quasi-parasite than it used to be. On the flip side they're not wrong, hard work doesn't pay.

Hate the game?

Re: AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD

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Post by BobaFloutist »

sandspar wrote: post #6

I've lately been seeing a more frequent use of "business students" and "MBAs" as a slur. It's disappointing to see it on Hacker News as well. Slurring people with terms like "Karens" and "boomers" and "MBAs" seems better suited to low discourse places like Reddit. I had thought that Hacker News was more fair. Also, the post itself seems born of a dark worldview. A single paragraph contains the following words: narrat…

A "Karen": A woman I don't like.

A "boomer": Someone older than me I don't like.

MBA: Management that's pissing me off.

Can you see why these aren't really equivalent?

Re: AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD

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Post by P_I_Staker »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #9
sandspar wrote: post #6

I've lately been seeing a more frequent use of "business students" and "MBAs" as a slur. It's disappointing to see it on Hacker News as well. Slurring people with terms like "Karens" and "boomers" and "MBAs" seems better suited to low discourse places like Reddit. I had thought that Hacker News was more fair. Also, the post itself seems born of a dark worldview. A single paragraph contains the following words: narrat…

A "Karen": A woman I don't like. A "boomer": Someone older than me I don't like. MBA: Management that's pissing me off. Can you see why these aren't really equivalent?

boomer isn't either. there's legit critiques of that generations mindset.

even karen was supposed to mean an entitled white lady that's mean to service worker.

I don't love the broad use of the term and just using it to bully women, or calling people boomers when they don't even subscribe to "boomer thought".

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