| ▲ | bigbadfeline 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Apparently new iOS app submissions jumped by 24% last year: The amount of useless slop in the app store doesn't matter. There are no new and useful apps made with AI - apps that contribute to productivity of the economy as whole. The trade and fiscal deficits are both high and growing as is corporate indebtedness - these are the true measures for economic failure and they all agree on it. AI is a debt and energy guzzling endeavor which sucks the capital juice out of the economy in return for meager benefits. I can't think of a reason for the present unjustified AI rush and hype other than war, but any success towards that goal is a total loss for the economy and environment - that's the relation between economics and deadly destruction in a connected world, reality is the proof. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | GorbachevyChase 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Is the AI in the room with us now? I get that people are upset that making a cool six figures off of stitching together React components is maybe not a viable long-term career path anymore. For those of us on the user side, the value is tremendous. I’m starting to replace what were paid enterprise software and plug-ins and tailoring them to my own taste. Our subject matter experts are translating their knowledge and work flows, which usually aren’t that complicated, into working products on their own. They didn’t have to spend six months or a year negotiating an agreement to build the software or have to beg our existing software vendors, who could not possibly care less, for the functionality to be added to software we are, for some reason, expected to pay for every single year, despite the absence of any operating cost to justify this practice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | deaux 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> There are no new and useful apps made with AI - apps that contribute to productivity of the economy as whole. This is flat-earther level. It's like an environmentalist saying that nothing made with fossil fuels contributes to productivity. But they don't say that because they know it's not true. There are so many valid gripes to have with LLMs, pick literally any of them. The idea that a single line of generated code can't possibly be productivity net positive is nonsensical. And if one line can, then so can many lines. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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