i would never go to an event that cares so little about people buying tickets they can't even put a pen to paper or just use a photograph. it reeks of laziness.

I mean that's what all of these execs are openly telling everyone: they want you out of work, they want their ai to be the one to bring the world to it's knees, they want to surveille every second of your day, they want killer drones to use, they want to lay all of your cities to rubble and build "paradises" on top of them like in gaza.

They also openly tell you what they are afraid of btw: collective worker power. something that is massively lacking in our industry, although i feel like it would be one of the easiest industries to unionize in terms of # of workers.

Interesting interview I just watched about how powerful and dangerous these "wishes" or "prophecies" are especially in the hands of the ultra-wealthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7grHa1NR0

GOD Orchestrator lmao

they unironically think that they can replace everyone in an organization

What I don't understand is, why not replace middle management, marketing, CTOs, CEOs and the like. Surely, LLMs are better at producing high quality looking slideware and vaporware than they are at producing software.

Heavy sarcasm here if it's not obvious. Of course I know why.

I mean, there a so many startups getting crazy funding that run without management, or without engineers... or at least with so many less people than before.. except: not really.

Is the whole "it's gonna replace people" even still on the table?

I don't really understand what you mean... are you saying that the entire industry is parroting a fantasy that they all know is fake. So, everyone is faking to get more funds?

Unfortunately, I don't think that's true.

You think AI will replace a significant portion of the workforce in the sector?

Do you see it already happening? I personally not. Lay offs are due to economic reasons, at least that's what I see. Why does Anthropic still had so many engineers?

I got the impression companies are already moving back from their initial excitement. Many went all-in AI "more is better", that's not the case anymore. Why restricting usage, it's much cheaper than paying an engineer.

"Thank God I read what it outputted"

lmao

"Thank God i checked to see if the gun was loaded before i pointed it in a random direction and pulled the trigger". sheesh, my assumptions of general human intelligence continues to be wrong.

the last few years of reading hackernews has been a wild ride. I used to come here for well thought out articles and opinions. IDK if all the "older guard" have left the building or if we've all been consumed by abject stupidity.

Or, both?

probably

Yeah, I think N_Lens was saying the manager's behavior in that anecdote was too high a bar.

I grew up on instant coffee, i don't like it much anymore EXCEPT for tossing a bit and some ice in a protein shake 100% recommend.

I use Apple and drink instant coffee, though!

lol "my girlfriend doesn't go here but you wouldn't even believe me if i lied about it"

disliking LLMs is just an opinion. Refusing to engage with an argument and instead defaulting to downvotes when you can't supply a reasonable argument or proof is just ai/corporate-fanaticism and self-delusion enhanced by LLM-dependence.

What argument was there to engage with? I just see a single, unsourced opinion.

Wow, those are some very strong claims, yet you haven't provided any evidence or argument to support them.

If I understand you correctly, you're arguing that anyone who disagrees with you is:

1. An AI/corporate fascist. 2. Self-deluded. 3. Dependent on LLMs.

Could you now provide what you yourself called a "reasonable argument or proof" that these claims are actually true?

Figured out a better way of explaining it:

dev A knows exactly what the program should do and how to verify the AI output

dev B thinks they know what they are doing but are actually misguided by bad psycophantic AI output they have incorrectly verified.

both work on product C

or the AI could lead you to a completely unusable experiment and lead you to believe it was successful wasting weeks of work. Not saying it will happen to you, but there is a huge "survivorship" bias already in software for what tools are useful or not. Maybe it's the person and not the tools.

lol this is actually my art(slop). I "prompted" it from the internet and it materialized on my screen. I own it, please don't misattribute it.