“People who rely on AI are the ones who will be left behind.”
And that’s exactly what happened to those who started using an abacus, a calculator, or a computer.
"People who don't use AI will be left behind"
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Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
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Not quite an AI issue, but they do intersect. They want us to pay them for "intelligence" on a metered basis, just like we pay for energy and water. They absolutely are an enemy of local computing freedom. The future they are designing is one where they hold all the computing power while we are literally priced out.
I think your concerns are valid - but the decisive claims are not. They're capitalist entities trying to capture value and control of a new thing they are introducing - yes - but that's a pretty normal thing, we get over that with competition, regulation etc. This will happen over time - all device manufacturers, cloud providers are 'on our side!' AWS and Apple want to commoditize the AI as much as you do. So do the…
I hope you're right. I truly do.
Re: "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
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It can put out code much faster than any software dev. And if you are careful with your prompts and demands, it is good quality code as well. Especially for visualising data, to just get a quick look at, it can now be done in lightning speed and I am quite familiar with "manual data processing" in a few languages. AI use me decently outcompetes manual me. Sometimes there are also stupid tasks. Data must be serialised…
> It can put out code much faster than any software dev. Judging a programmer by how much code they write is like judging an airplane engineer by how heavy their planes are.
Of course, it isn't the quantity. It is more about the features you wouldn't implement because manual dev takes a long time and why not let the AI spin up a non-critical site for administration or testing just for you. The cost/benefit calculation shifts a bit.
That said, if you get something quite heavy to lift off, it probably is a decent engineering feet. Not saying it would be the best plane :)