| ▲ | Rzor 17 hours ago | |
>Of course, the junior + AI pairing was tempting. It looked cheaper and played into the fear that “AI will take our jobs.” Those are two different narratives. One implies that everyone will be able to code and build: "English as a programming language", etc. The other is one of those headless-chicken, apocalyptic scenarios where AI has already made (or will very shortly make) human programmers obsolete. "AI taking jobs" means everyone's job. I won't even comment on the absurdity of that idea; to me, it only comes from people who've never worked professionally. At the end of the day, companies will take any vaguely reasonable excuse to cull juniors and save money. It's just business. LLMs are simply the latest excuse, though yes, they do improve productivity, to varying degrees depending on what exactly you work on. | ||
| ▲ | palmotea 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> "AI taking jobs" means everyone's job. I won't even comment on the absurdity of that idea; to me, it only comes from people who've never worked professionally. Once you've worked professionally, it's not so absurd. I mean, you really see to believe the extreme compromises in quality that upper management is often willing to tolerate to save a buck in the short term. | ||
| ▲ | Terr_ 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> Those are two different narratives. Also, those two narratives are sometimes deployed as a false-dichotomy, where both just make the same assumption that LLM weaknesses will vanish and dramatic improvement will continue indefinitely. A historical analogy: * A: "Segway™ balancing vehicles will be so beneficially effective that private vehicles will be rare in 2025." * B: "No, Segways™ will be so harmfully effective that people will start to suffer from lower body atrophy by 2025." | ||
| ▲ | bananaflag 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> "AI taking jobs" means everyone's job. I won't even comment on the absurdity of that idea; to me, it only comes from people who've never worked professionally. I work professionally (I am even a bit renowned) and still believe AI will take my (and everyone's) job. | ||
| ▲ | pjmlp 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Well, I can certainly assert that anyone that used to do translations or image assets for CMS is out of job nowadays. | ||