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Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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The price of building software is going to go down a lot. Of course, the demand will increase and also the output of any given engineer. Nevertheless, the trend towards remote work and mature AI tools should lead to software engineer salaries (esp. in the US) decreasing. Even if just due to being insanely inflated right now.

Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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I have seen someone who know absolutely nothing about a language and barely able to write a script using Python managed to build a full automation pipeline for data analysis including a GUI using ChatGPT in that language. So while I agree that some of the hype are overblown, there is clear and irrefutable proof of the value and power of AI right now. Unlike crypto...

Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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I guess I don't follow what these software companies would do long term being "all in" on AI. Training AI on your personal files, writing docs for you, etc really seems like no moat. (Unless the big companies push for AI "regulation" or "safety" that only they can afford to sell). Seems more a good play for hardware than software sellers.

They're selling to Wall Street. Just another hype cycle.

Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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You lack imagination.

AI for sure is an incredible tool, but it's like a new type of UI with low barrier to entry (eventually)

Low barrier to entry can do a lot.

Regardless, a much more important factor is that all the data about everything, which people have been collecting for decades as a matter of almost religious belief in its usefulness and never done anything with it, is actually going to be used now, for better or worse. "Targeted adds" of today will look like a joke compared to that.

Re: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success

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I have seen someone who know absolutely nothing about a language and barely able to write a script using Python managed to build a full automation pipeline for data analysis including a GUI using ChatGPT in that language. So while I agree that some of the hype are overblown, there is clear and irrefutable proof of the value and power of AI right now. Unlike crypto...

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