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Disliking AI is fine and good. But that is a really dumb argument.
"60 employees who can't be productive without the internet? And this is progress?"
"60 employees who can't be productive without computers? And this is progress?"
"60 scribes who can't be productive without clay tablets? And this is progress?"
Etc.
Edit: LLMs/AI are going to change some things. They are going to make (shitty) coding and various automations much more accessible. They are probably not a revolutionary technology like computers/internet, but that they could be a core part of some people's workflow is absolutely not unthinkable. It has been shown that there have not, so far, been major boons to productivity on the whole, but that doesn't mean they don't have some use cases.
One is a deterministic machine on your desk, that you own, to do stuff at your desk.
The other is a nondeterministic thing somewhere else, that you don't own, to do stuff at your desk.
So?
Seriously?
This isn’t an anti-AI argument it’s a pro-UBI argument
I was talking about a false dichotomy (before the person I replied to edited their comment to save face)
what are you talking about
You people are like flat earthers with this AI hatred.
It’s genuinely fascinating and useful. You’re allowed to hate the companies and evil behind it, but the kid in me is still enthralled by this technology.
It’s just getting weird at this point.
Huh.
Except, unlike computers and the internet, AI is not essential, unless your whole business revolves around it (in which case, good riddance).
If the Internet is down for a period of time at the office, I would expect that my dev team is able to continue working (assuming they’re not exclusively hitting a third party API). At least for a few hours, if not days. It might not be the same cadence, but I’m not about to send them home.
Computers are a tool; AI is an outsourcing. It’s the difference between a carpentry team not having saws, hammers, etc. and having the carpentry team unable to do work if Jose (the outsourced carpenter) doesn’t come in.