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> I think you are applying the ostrich method which is understandable Asking for evidence is not being an ostrich.
The ostrich method is avoiding existing evidencea available online and searchable for full stack llm programming
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> no one is stating "we've replaced X% of our workforce with AI" Even if that's been happening, I don't think it would be politically savvy to admit it. In today's social climate claiming to replace humans with AI would attract the wrong kind of attention from politicians (during an election year) and from the public in general. This would be even more unwise to admit for a company like Google who's an "AI producer".…
> and from the public in general Don't think the public will be that concerned about people in Google's salary bracket losing their jobs.
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Software engineers and grocery store workers are in different income brackets, but in the same class (labor/prolaterian). It is managers, executives, and investors that are in the capitalist class. Class is determined by your relationship to production.
Software engineer salaries and stock compensation can be enough to shift alignment somewhat, especially after many years of capital accumulation.
I work for Google, and I just got done with my work day. I was just writing I guess what you'd call "AI generated code." But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I'm writing. If I'm writing "function getAc..." it's smart enough to complete to "function getActionHandler()", and maybe suggest the correct arguments and a decent jsdoc comment. So basically, it's a helpful productivity…
All things that I would consider tedious housekeeping, but nothing that needs serious reasoning.
It's basically a glorified LSP.
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It’s a disservice to the public to assume they aren’t capable of understanding why AI job losses might be concerning even if they aren’t directly impacted. Most people aren’t so committed to class warfare that they will root for the apocalypse as long as it stomps a rich guy first.
You mean poor person. As long as it stomps a poor person. The rich don’t have a habit of getting stomped. They direct other poor people to stomp their contemporaries. The poor don’t have a chance.
I work for Google, and I just got done with my work day. I was just writing I guess what you'd call "AI generated code." But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I'm writing. If I'm writing "function getAc..." it's smart enough to complete to "function getActionHandler()", and maybe suggest the correct arguments and a decent jsdoc comment. So basically, it's a helpful productivity…
That's what I thought. In recent weeks, most of the code I’ve written has been AI-generated. But it was mostly JSDoc comments, type checking (I'm writing JavaScript), abstracting code if I see that I'm repeating myself a little too often, etc. All things that I would consider tedious housekeeping, but nothing that needs serious reasoning. It's basically a glorified LSP.
If this stuff really works as well as these companies claim it does, wouldn’t their entire workforce excitedly be using these tools already?
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Do people find these AI auto complete things helpful? I was trying the XCode one and it kept suggesting API calls that don't exist. I spent more time fixing its errors than I would have spent typing the correct API call.
Visual Studio "intellisense" has always been pretty good for me. Seemed to make good guesses about my intentions without doing anything wild. It seemed to use ad hoc rules and patterns, but it worked and then got out of the way. Then it got worse a couple of years ago when they tried some early-stage AI approach. I turned it off. I expect that next time I update VS it'll have got substantially worse and it will have…