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Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by cassianoleal »

nunez wrote: post #68

Good article. I want to zoom in on the rise of AI notetakers. AI that generates transcripts alongside recorded video that you can watch later? Amazing. I can catch up later and find people asyhc if I need more info; the videos are discoverable/shareable and anyone who needs to be in the know can be. AI notetakers that give you a summary and nothing else? Useless. These generat concepts of overviews and tend to miss s…

I'd like for these tools to:

* Cut the video down into chapters, e.g.

    - 0:00 - Introductions
    - 3:30 - Joe gives a summary of the problem and shows diagrams
    - 7:52 - Kim asks clarification questions and introduces relevant infrastructural concepts
    - 10:25 - People waffling about unrelated stuff
    ...
* Put the video and the transcript on the same GUI, where I can shuffle through the timeline, choose chapters or click the transcript to be taken to the relevant part of the video.

* Bonus points if it highlights the relevant part of the summary as the video is playing.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by CuriousSkeptic »

anal_reactor wrote: post #89
erentz wrote: post #33

The way AI is being used feels like it is proving that, in many orgs, what has always mattered has been the appearance of work, not results of work. Will we wake up in a few years and find out we’ve fired all the doers and are now overloaded with the fakers?

It feels like it but this is not true. Imagine that you're given a business problem to solve. You represent the process of writing the code with a graph - each vertex is a git commit. We consider the space of all possible git commits, so the graph is infinite. All vertices are connected with directional edges, and each edge has a value "cost". If you are in commit A and you want to go to commit B, you have to pay the…

Your graph model lack the aspect of increasing complexity. As you traverse the graph every available node gets increasingly more distant. In some areas of the graph less so than others, a good heuristic function not only identifies a single shortest path, but also dense areas of possible value in the graph.

The question is if blind speed scales quicker then distances grow.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by biglyburrito »

erentz wrote: post #33

The way AI is being used feels like it is proving that, in many orgs, what has always mattered has been the appearance of work, not results of work. Will we wake up in a few years and find out we’ve fired all the doers and are now overloaded with the fakers?

Inshallah.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by fileeditview »

erentz wrote: post #33

The way AI is being used feels like it is proving that, in many orgs, what has always mattered has been the appearance of work, not results of work. Will we wake up in a few years and find out we’ve fired all the doers and are now overloaded with the fakers?

There is a shift to software mass production over the last decade(s). AI is now speeding up this process extremely. There will be most software produced with AI and "cog coders", similar to a production line in manufacturing.

Some few (good ones) will find niches and "hand craft" software, similar to today when you still can buy hand forged axes etc. Obviously the market for these products will be much smaller but it will exist.

I you love programming you should try to get into the second category. Be a master craftsman.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by bulbar »

Paul-Craft wrote: post #62
dd8601fn wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the last ten+ years has taught us that massive security breaches are more of an insurance claim problem and some $4/mo credit monitoring payouts. And major corporations certainly don’t seem to care that much about leaving massive amounts of money on the table from jr level tech issues. I see it all the time. I mentioned a few from Walmart, Meta, and Amazon recently. Everyone talks like these things matter, bu…

Excuse me? Amazon lost more money in one day than most companies have in revenue, from dropped orders. I would say that matters. Believe it or not, the systems we work on do things that matter in the real world.

Seems to be an instance of the prevention paradox: Security (in general) is taken seriously enough that major incidences are low enough that people think that security does not matter that much.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by xtracto »

I want to focus on the "colleagues submit thousands of AI generated lines of code for review" comment.

Humanity developed Code and programming languages for people. They are supposed to provide sufficient expressiveness so that we people can understand what is happening, and 0 ambiguity, so that the machine can perform is instructions.

But computer code has been a way to communicate among us people on our intentions (what we intend the machine to do). Otherwise, we would still be writing in assembler.

But now, computers are generating code, A LOT of code. So much, that it's becoming more and more difficult to stay on top with our verbose languages.

We will need to develop a better way for the computers to a) produce the instructions to perform the tasks we tell them to , b) produce reports or some accessible way for us people to understand and share what the instructions are doing.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by tosti »

bad_username wrote: post #53

> Generative AI tools, .. supercharge the spread of disinformation and fascism, ... and concentrate wealth in fewer hands People caught up in this line of beliefs generally tend to be more neurotic and unhappy about most things.

Probably. I hate the AI boom too and see no need to get all political, or even outrught blame the politicians. What'd you expect, politicians with a master degree in every field there is? Not gonna happen.

If we're putting the blame on anything, it's on us hacker types for going where the money flows and not fighting the corporate overlords nail and tooth.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by anal_reactor »

CuriousSkeptic wrote: post #93
anal_reactor wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels like it but this is not true. Imagine that you're given a business problem to solve. You represent the process of writing the code with a graph - each vertex is a git commit. We consider the space of all possible git commits, so the graph is infinite. All vertices are connected with directional edges, and each edge has a value "cost". If you are in commit A and you want to go to commit B, you have to pay the…

Your graph model lack the aspect of increasing complexity. As you traverse the graph every available node gets increasingly more distant. In some areas of the graph less so than others, a good heuristic function not only identifies a single shortest path, but also dense areas of possible value in the graph. The question is if blind speed scales quicker then distances grow.

That's true, and I guess the reason why we're building so many datacenters is to answer the question how far exactly will blind speed take us, assuming that we fail to make substantial improvements to AI architecture.

Re: Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Post by coffeebeqn »

barrkel wrote: post #75

Bluntly, no, you probably don't belong in tech. This is what tech has always been. A never (yet) ending race to automate. Our job will be done when there's nothing left to automate.

I’m not part of the owner class so what tech jobs has and always will be is a paycheck. Why should I be excited about automating myself to homelessness
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