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Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
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I don't see the threat from AI as capitalist at all, but more so feudalist. I mean, if things go in the direction of the worst-case scenario. It seems like the power potential transcends the problems of capitalism entirely. But for now it's strictly hypothetical. Nothing I'm doing with AI matters enough to really make any statements about a broader scale in my field, let alone in entire economies.
Capitalism enables feudalism.
We were supposed to put "breaks" in place, like anti-monopoly laws, but they've never been effective, because capitalists quickly found "that one loophole": bribing politicians
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If we wanna go full-on Marxist analysis it is an attempt of the capitalist class to finally rid themselves of their dependence on labor and their pesky demands like sick leave and fair wages. Through that analysis, one can also explain why the managerial caste is so obsessed with it - it is nothing less than an ideological device. One can also see this in the actual deification happening in some VC cycles and their b…
It's the other side around. AI developed in a Marxist society could be a useful tool. AI developed in a capitalistic society will be a tool for control and enrichment of the few.
You just have to look at 99% of what AI is used for today: disinformation, and creating fake porn videos
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AI is more likely to destroy capitalism than it is to increase inequality. Ten years ago, what would it have cost you to build a Jira clone / competitor? Today one person can do it in a week, at least for the core tech. In a year, only the very largest companies will pay for that kind of infrastructure tooling. We’ve just started seeing the democratization of software and the capitalists are terrified.
It won't. Because once big companies who own the models and the GPUs will see that you're competing with them, they will lock you down and extort funds from you. That's what modern capitalism is about
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Ah, that's fair. I personally don't normally care about library usage as long as it's fairly well documented and effective (like Shadcn vs raw tailwind components vs chakra... I don't really care).
Yea I just use LLM agents as tools, I don’t kick whole features to them or have a cloud agent running all the time. I rarely use more than $100 in usage monthly, usually less than half that. I use tab completion a lot in Cursor and use agents to make mechanical changes or integrate features I don’t care about learning, like integrating several libraries together into my application. I also use it to write things I’ve…
Agreed; as in most things, moderation is key. It is a new tool that is here whether we like it or not. May as well learn to coexist with it, but also not defer all our thinking to the tool.
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#568im bored of talking about AI in the abstract yeah. but im not bored of building with it becuase the gap between what the tools can do and what people actualy ship with them is still enormous. most conversations about AI are about capabilites. barely anyone talks about taste or direction, which is where the real bottleneck is imo