I'm an IC and I love it. Executives have the wrong concept of AI. For them it's chat + magic, and then it does everything. You can't work with people who have incorrect concepts about how the world works. Best ignore them.

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kubb 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're right, execs keep trying to fit the LLM square peg into the "inteligent agent" round hole.

Developers use it, for groking a codebase, for implementing boilerplate, for debugging. They don't need juniors to do the grunt work anymore, they can build and throw away, the language and technology moats get smaller.

The value of low level managers, whose power came from having warm bodies to do the grunt work, diminishes.

The bean counters will be like when does it pay for itself. Will it? IDK, IDC.

	▲	TheGRS 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Validation efforts likely become more necessary, so costs rise in another area. And product managers find they still need someone to translate the requirements well because LLMs are too agreeable. Cost optimization still needs someone to intervene as well. I know there's an attempt to shift the development part from developers to other laypeople, but I think that's just going to frustrate everyone involved and probably settle back down into technical roles again. Well paid? Unclear.

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simianwords 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> For them it's chat + magic, and then it does everything

Look, I know that we like poking fun at some people but generally I haven't seen execs saying this.

	▲	try-working 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've seen literally every company in the world launch a chat bot as their AI strategy. I've also had clients who "wanted to do something with AI", and they would only be happy when they saw a chat UI. I built Semantic Search. Improves business performance significantly without changing the UI. Nobody is impressed because you cannot show it around and talk about it. It looks the same. It has to look like real AI, they say.