The industry was always a disaster, but if you take a disaster and put AI in the mix you get a disaster at light speed. It was always getting worse and worse but now it’s speedrunning it.

▲ jagged-chisel 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Computers are a lever, a force multiplier. If your process is shit, you can shit faster with a computer.

LLMs are another force multiplier. If your computerized process is a disaster … well, you said it and you’re right.

▲ ben_w 6 hours ago | parent [-]

When I was young, the quote was still:

  To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.

	▲	jagged-chisel 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That quote was on my mind as I wrote that message. I think I saw it as a child but some time after I had begun writing BASIC code. It took a moment’s thought at the time, but I soon came to realize its truth.

▲ Cthulhu_ 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not so much AI itself, but the billions invested into it and the hardware required - anything you invest billions into but that doesn't have similar return on investment is a fast track to an economic crash / correction. The Y2K tech companies are a previous example, investors were champing at the bit to invest in uh, pets.com or whatever but turns out it didn't / wouldn't earn enough money to earn it back.

	▲	lifetimerubyist 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with the economic argument. But I literally mean if you have a crappy business and put AI into it you’re just gonna make your business worse. AI as a tool is not actually a solution for very much. AI can mark a good process better but it will also make bad processes way worse. It’s a power drill upgrade when you were previously only using a screwdriver, but it’s still not a table saw.