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Why write this? If there is a theory that, right now, there is an economic advantage for folks working with AI rather than using it instead of workers, then why not frame it that way.
By framing the argument as a moralist ones, e.g., "ho, ho, you fools will be punished for replacing workers," then it makes the entire article feel like wishcasting rather than an actual argument.
Does anybody else find this article reads really AI written? The way the argument is built, the emdashes, the dramatic one sentence paragraph: "That assumption is wrong." "The human is the equation. AI is what makes that equation run faster." -- what?
Does discimer “no tokens were used” mean anything ?
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Two things: 1) Unlimited PTO is a scam. Ask anyone who ever got paid out six weeks salary when they changed jobs. 2) “the craft” is doing some heavy lifting here. I happen to enjoy AI-assisted dev, but it is nothing like the work that drew me to the industry. Otherwise agreed on all counts.
> Unlimited PTO is a scam Well, no. It's just the target beneficiary is not you (the employees) but the employer. Unlimited PTO resolves the employer from paying out PTO when they make you "redundant".
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> someone like me who regularly half day and full day PTO every quarter So you take something less than 10 days off a year? In all developed countries bar one that is against the law for being so few days off. You are being abused.
No, that is incorrect. See my edit
Great! Bare minimum legal in most developed countries for a factory worker or shelf stocker!
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The major issue, is that once people are more productive with AI, you are able to replace people because less of them are required. You see this in enterprise consulting, wiht the increase in cloud, serverless, SaaS/iPaaS, low code/no code, content generation and translations, followed by AI agent orchestration, the teams can be reduced down to about 1/3 of what they used to be. It isn't as if there are enough projec…
This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money. > It isn't as if there are enough projects around to keep the other 2/3 busy I've never worked at any company where there was any limit to the work to be done. Sales people don't give a shit what your product can do, only what they can sell, and they never sleep.
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The problem for high-performing developers (even the elitest) is that over a long enough time scale, they won't be remotely competitive with high performing AI. At the moment we need human operators to guide and supervise these AIs, but unless the tech's progress grinds to a halt for some unforeseeable reason, it won't be this way for long.
I know this is a common belief, but its an assumption lacking evidence.
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No, that is incorrect. See my edit
> I probably take between 20-30 days total annually Great! Bare minimum legal in most developed countries for a factory worker or shelf stocker!
I’m just telling you it’s not less than 10 days and unlimited PTO system works for my needs. Ease off the gas.
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The major issue, is that once people are more productive with AI, you are able to replace people because less of them are required. You see this in enterprise consulting, wiht the increase in cloud, serverless, SaaS/iPaaS, low code/no code, content generation and translations, followed by AI agent orchestration, the teams can be reduced down to about 1/3 of what they used to be. It isn't as if there are enough projec…
This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money. > It isn't as if there are enough projects around to keep the other 2/3 busy I've never worked at any company where there was any limit to the work to be done. Sales people don't give a shit what your product can do, only what they can sell, and they never sleep.