I Changed My Mind: AI Will Replace Us
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I Changed My Mind: AI Will Replace Us
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#2I’m unimpressed with this take. AI will replace those that fail to adapt their skills to the new strategies required to orchestrate the new systems that tie AI solutions together. Someone still has to instruct the AI and I’ve yet to see enough evidence to convince me this tech can be adequately used to replace my abilities… but it will replace my homies that stayed complacent and thought they’d be able to coast by on some archaic knowledge from 15 years ago when we first started.
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#3I’m unimpressed with this take. AI will replace those that fail to adapt their skills to the new strategies required to orchestrate the new systems that tie AI solutions together. Someone still has to instruct the AI and I’ve yet to see enough evidence to convince me this tech can be adequately used to replace my abilities… but it will replace my homies that stayed complacent and thought they’d be able to coast by on…
What did you expect? It is just another Medium post. Badum tss. Rage bait.
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#4> If AI can:
> Understand business requirements from documentation
Wait, how are business requirements getting documented?
Re: I Changed My Mind: AI Will Replace Us
#5I’m unimpressed with this take. AI will replace those that fail to adapt their skills to the new strategies required to orchestrate the new systems that tie AI solutions together. Someone still has to instruct the AI and I’ve yet to see enough evidence to convince me this tech can be adequately used to replace my abilities… but it will replace my homies that stayed complacent and thought they’d be able to coast by on…
So, someone still has to orchestrate AI, right? But that doesn't negate that a large majority of people will be replaced. Of course, there will always be one or two that won't. And what about in 15 years? Because the direction in which we are heading is rather inevitable unless AI is stopped.
Re: I Changed My Mind: AI Will Replace Us
#6I’m unimpressed with this take. AI will replace those that fail to adapt their skills to the new strategies required to orchestrate the new systems that tie AI solutions together. Someone still has to instruct the AI and I’ve yet to see enough evidence to convince me this tech can be adequately used to replace my abilities… but it will replace my homies that stayed complacent and thought they’d be able to coast by on…
Why is someone needed to instruct the AI, or orchestrate anything? Isn't that a role that will inevitably be fulfilled by AI, one that's perhaps more focused on this sort of higher-level consideration, without a context polluted with low-level technical detail (i.e., exactly what we expect from tech-lead or management roles today.)
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#7I’m unimpressed with this take. AI will replace those that fail to adapt their skills to the new strategies required to orchestrate the new systems that tie AI solutions together. Someone still has to instruct the AI and I’ve yet to see enough evidence to convince me this tech can be adequately used to replace my abilities… but it will replace my homies that stayed complacent and thought they’d be able to coast by on…
Not to mention the question of if these setups are financially feasible for the consumer of the AI and for the AI provider. It doesn't make that much business sense for a multi-billion dollar operation to fully automate their data engineering if it now depends on OpenAI, Meta or whatever, it's a huge operational liability. If the models go down you lose the data engineering sector entirely, and then you have no one to turn to because the only one who understands the code is the AI you don't even own.
I know companies have taken these operational liabilities with cloud storage and compute, but it's not the same thing as in it's not possible to mitigate. You can have a local, but shorter, backup of your stuff, but you can't have backup engineers
Re: I Changed My Mind: AI Will Replace Us
#8I’m unimpressed with this take. AI will replace those that fail to adapt their skills to the new strategies required to orchestrate the new systems that tie AI solutions together. Someone still has to instruct the AI and I’ve yet to see enough evidence to convince me this tech can be adequately used to replace my abilities… but it will replace my homies that stayed complacent and thought they’d be able to coast by on…
Not to mention the question of if these setups are financially feasible for the consumer of the AI and for the AI provider. It doesn't make that much business sense for a multi-billion dollar operation to fully automate their data engineering if it now depends on OpenAI, Meta or whatever, it's a huge operational liability. If the models go down you lose the data engineering sector entirely, and then you have no one t…
If you're in Google Cloud, the risk of using Gemini seems not much different than a using their cloud storage imo. Then you also have redundancy if you have OpenAI, Llama, and Claude as drop-in replacements.
The only thing you need to maintain is context.
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#9> If AI can: > Understand business requirements from documentation Wait, how are business requirements getting documented?
These LLMs are really good at digging up internal docs if you give them access to your knowledge sources with tooling to search and reason in a loop before responding.
Re: I Changed My Mind: AI Will Replace Us
#10> If AI can: > Understand business requirements from documentation Wait, how are business requirements getting documented?
These LLMs are really good at digging up internal docs if you give them access to your knowledge sources with tooling to search and reason in a loop before responding.
>These LLMs are really good at digging up internal docs if you give them access to your knowledge sources with tooling to search and reason in a loop before responding.
Are those internal documents in the room with us right now?
No but seriously, most of the software out there is legacy code (don't quote me on that though). IME, legacy code very poorly documented, if anything at all. Sure you could let the LLM extract semantics from the code alone but with old code, arcane hacks and such LLM interpretation can take you only so far. And even then semantics is not always directly translates to business logic.