I couldn’t have said it better myself. All of these companies firing people are doing it because they want to fire people. AI is just a convenient excuse. It’s RTO all over again.
Start spinning up githubs poupulated with broken code and incorrect processes for other jobs to train the AI and make it worse
Ha that’s just my regular code.
acollierastro is a treasure.
I just hired an employee who managed things as I was on a leave of absence and things went fine without me. Getting a little pushback from MY boss now because you know, this cheaper employee just did my job.
Of course, he did it for a portion of the year after I managed to complete 3 major projects early so he didn’t have to deal with them and I left a month-by-month explanation of how to do everything he had to do. And the one problem that popped up went unresolved until I returned.
That is basically the situation with AI too. You still need someone knowledgeable in the loop to describe the things it needs to do, and handle exceptions.
still need someone knowledgeable in the loop to describe the things it needs to do, and handle exceptions
And any engineer or technician will tell you, exceptions are 80% of their job.
I had to rewrite our entire scheduling system at work to use Outlook instead of Google Calendar. The guy who wrote the Google Calendar scheduling system made it so unmaintainable that it was faster to just rewrite the entire thing from scratch (1000+ line lambda function with almost 0 abstraction).
At least 90% of what I wrote is just exception handling. There’s ~15 different 4xx/5xx errors that can be returned for each endpoint, but only 1 or 2 200 responses.
I bet in the future someone who will see your code will also think of the same. Just the nature of things.
This is fair, but it’s at least broken up so they can selectively gut the parts of it they don’t like instead of having to figure out what a 300 line method named “process” does.
- rewind 40 years
- replace ‘ai’ with ‘computers’
Exactly , and I mean exactly, the same thing was said back in the 80s
Edit: formatting
Ya what’s your point? Are you saying that the invention of computers didn’t displace a lot of jobs?
If you’re saying that AI is going to disrupt the market and displace a large number of jobs just like computers did then you’re 100% right.
Nothing is finite. AI isn’t going to be the first or last thing to shake up the world.
Eventually your skills are going to become less valued and you’ll have no choice but to retool. Either you figure out how to retool or you get left behind.
AI is the new outsourcing, and is even more problematic.
Well, to be fair, most people are so bad at their jobs that any chat bot is better.
