I was talking to my friend yesterday about what exactly has AI changed for us. Our lives are still the same( actually worse from job loss anxiety). If this tech is so revolutionary how come nothing in my life has changed positively.

My friend is in managment at faang and he said ai has changed how tech coders now behave at work. he is enjoying the fact that "their tails have been cut by AI". Made his management job infinitely easier.

why is this downvoted?

> he is enjoying the fact that "their tails have been cut by AI"

Manager. FAANG. Enjoys the misfortune of the people he manages. Your friend sounds like a prick to me.

Because improvement in human QoL is not a requirement for a revolutionary technology. Nuclear weapons come to mind.

We're talking about something that speculatively invalidates all digital data. All code created prior is seen with lesser value to the point of commodification because of its existence. We are past the slow erosion of trust of the photoshop or Wikipedia era. You can't trust anything digital anymore. Encryption is our last hope, and companies now join governments in the race to break it.

Perhaps a bit of a leap but based on their phrasing, I'd be very critical of a viewpoint in management who believes themselves immune from what's occurring to specialized talent across the board. We are intergalactially far away from IBM's "never let a computer make a management decision." A concerningly large number of people submit their data, thinking, and agency to these tools. The impact is real even if not personally felt or in your backyard.

I think that has more to do with the job market than "AI". All my coworkers have become yes-men due to perceived job insecurity. Not sure this is a positive thing even if it's superficially appealing to a middle-manager.

> My friend is in managment at faang and he said ai has changed how tech coders now behave at work. he is enjoying the fact that "their tails have been cut by AI". Made his management job infinitely easier

Yeah, I see this attitude a lot. People seem gleeful that software devs are getting kicked in the teeth, but honestly the business practices in software already have been kicking my ass my entire career. I've never felt like a respected, valued individual at any company I've worked for. I've only ever felt like an assembly line worker and accountability sink for my bosses. Someone to pile shit on, and then blame if stuff goes wrong.

My career has been full of overtime, evenings and weekends, overnight deployments, crunch time, layoffs, and for most of it I wasn't even making lots of money. It's only a couple of years ago I started making more than six figures, and now I'm laid off again and wondering if I'm even going to manage to get another job at all, nevermind one that pays as well.

I made the wrong choice in careers twenty years ago, tell you that much. Now I don't know what to do, but people are happy my tail has been cut, as if they haven't already been kicking my ass for ages. :/

Hard to feel anything but resentment anymore

Agree. And this is the change I more or less expected. Living to the full potential of anxiety, job loss, further loss of autonomy at work for code types like me.

The direction was clear for last 2 decades with every little feature broken into dozens upon dozens of tickets for better management . And now with AI each JIRA story can have its own design doc, testing doc, usage guide and so on. And management does seem happy by increasing number of artifacts which implied quality work done.

I think even the zany pro-AI types usually come up with "the motorized horse" rather then the automobile.

We've had a lot of hype cycles, but I'm honestly of the opinion that at least in terms of coding, this is somewhat like the consequences of if we invented say, the Star Trek Transporter.

That show notoriously struggles to really show that device at it's full power (because it was invented to solve a budget problem) - whereas if you think about it, the Transporter basically should've been THE reason the Federation had the power it did.

So your friend's life is not still the same?

>If this tech is so revolutionary how come nothing in my life has changed positively.

That's a bit of a myopic view. Imagine someone asking the same question a few years after the invention of the printing press.

It's not hard to find examples of how AI is changing things. To take just one example, look at how it's revolutionizing research in science and mathematics. I wouldn't expect this to change the average person's life overnight, but there are absolutely going to be huge breakthroughs in the next few decades.