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So, the guy who's a founder of an AI company and makes money if he convinces people to buy into his AI project, is making some alarmist/doomer post about how crazy AI has gotten and how many jobs it's supposedly taking. He presents such thoughts as if they're some gnawing worry he just randomly needs to share. Well, what do you know, the author just happens to sell an AI system that aims to "make humans better, rathe…
I know things are bad, we all know things are bad. But first you’ve got to get mad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug Here’s the thing: We’re in the complaining stage. It doesn’t hurt enough yet. When it does, we’ll stop complaining and do something. Complaining is a good first step! That’s how it starts.
I was wondering how much was due to over hiring during the crazy 2020-2021. Multiple companies increased their headcount by more than 50%, or even by 100% during the two years. That does not make business or technical sense at all, as tech companies are supposed to scale their services with technology instead of people. Companies add people only if they want to invest in new areas, but exactly how many new areas can we get in merely two years?
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Probably depends on BO/stakeholder as well. B2B solution that has a low risk of killing anyone? Maybe fuck it, let the model have its way. Technology that controls software that keeps people alive, controls infrastructure, etc., uhhhh I don't think so. I guess we're just waiting for the first news story of someone's pacemaker going haywire and shocking them to death because the monitoring code was vibed through to pr…
Isn't the sector for software that is life-critical really small? medical devices, and maybe some control software? Oh and probably defense too I don't feel much better ( as someone who has spent their career in consumer electronics )
I think it's large. Think about the software that goes into something like air travel - ATC, weather tracking, the actual control software for the aircraft... I am aware that nothing is perfect, but I'd at least like to know that a person wrote those things who could be held accountable.
Surprised he didn’t also mention US national debt and servicing it as interest rates rise.
The OBBB, championed by the so-called "fiscally conservatives", accelerated this, but this will largely get ignored until/if a Democrat is in office again. Then large swaths of people will suddenly start caring about the national debt.
Oh, ok, these are the people the OP is worried about. If they have been at all reasonable with their money, they'll be fine...
> 2022: 93,000 employees laid off
> 2023: 200,000 employees laid off (peak)
> 2024: 150,000 employees laid off
> 2025: 70,000 employees laid off (through July)
Any figures on how this compares with the COVID surge in hiring? As in, are we at a net-negative and if so by how much?
> These are people who've been making over $100-200K in tech or tech-adjacent for over a decade. Oh, ok, these are the people the OP is worried about. If they have been at all reasonable with their money, they'll be fine...
He's worried about what it says about the state of the industry and hiring. If people like that can't get jobs, those less talented who have been making less money, certainly won't.
Don't worry -- soon after that, there will be high demand for human coders as companies scramble to hire to rewrite all the buggy and vuln-ridden AI-hallucinated software. We're on the verge of two revolutions in tech, not one.
There are many examples of buggy and vuln-ridden non-AI-hallucinated software. Never been a rush to fix them.
I know things are bad, we all know things are bad. But first you’ve got to get mad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug Here’s the thing: We’re in the complaining stage. It doesn’t hurt enough yet. When it does, we’ll stop complaining and do something. Complaining is a good first step! That’s how it starts.
The thing is... do we really need so many developers and marketers?