Dude, I’ll tell you what’s going on as an “uninformed laymen.” I manage a software team at a major company that you’ve heard of. We likely won’t be hiring new people this year and will probably be letting some contractors go because AI writes better code and faster. The ones prioritized for removal will be those like yourself, stubborn and arrogant and refusing to adapt. It’s at the point where someone taking weeks to do what can be done in 1-2 days with AI is noticeable. No one is going to tolerate laggards trying to do things the old way.
You can claim to have reports and everything saying there is no productivity gain, but it’s just flat out not true based on my actual experience doing the job. When I’ve spoken to peers at start ups, it’s clear they’re moving even faster and leaning even harder into it. They look at me like I’m a dinosaur for being cautious about AI use.
The biggest bottle neck for AI productivity is a lack of feedback. Humans still must bridge the gaps, figuring out behavior across various repos to coordinate changes in all of them, or observing production logs and data to share failures that AI can fix. The more pieces of the system that it can access simultaneously, the faster it will iterate. Humans will only provide new feature requirements and feedback on problems, while AI will iterate and iterate and iterate. It’s a matter of time before most jobs in this space are gone or at least pay way less since the scope and complexity is much reduced and there is no shortage of people who can tell AI in plain English what to do.
The concerns about bubble burst are irrelevant. The bubble bursting doesn’t make the technology go away. Some companies will fail, but others that aren’t over-leveraged will pick up and carry on. And, my company self-hosts the GPUs and runs the models internally, so an AI bubble burst would have zero impact on its ability to keep generating code.
And, whether AI enshittifies my life or whether I have any opinion about that is also irrelevant. It’s not up to me. I cannot control what other people will tend to do and just like most people don’t care if their clothes are made in a sweat shop or their food is produced on a factory farm, they will also not give a shit if the software they use was generated by AI.
Sure thing bud. We’ll see how you do when that code needs to be fixed or maintained. It’ll be fun to see your bills once your agents switch to token based pricing. Short term gains are a fools game.
Also, none of what you said disproves any of the drawbacks I pointed out.
Lastly, yes, it does matter what you think and what you do. Silence and obedience is complicity.
Dude, I’ll tell you what’s going on as an “uninformed laymen.” I manage a software team at a major company that you’ve heard of. We likely won’t be hiring new people this year and will probably be letting some contractors go because AI writes better code and faster. The ones prioritized for removal will be those like yourself, stubborn and arrogant and refusing to adapt. It’s at the point where someone taking weeks to do what can be done in 1-2 days with AI is noticeable. No one is going to tolerate laggards trying to do things the old way.
You can claim to have reports and everything saying there is no productivity gain, but it’s just flat out not true based on my actual experience doing the job. When I’ve spoken to peers at start ups, it’s clear they’re moving even faster and leaning even harder into it. They look at me like I’m a dinosaur for being cautious about AI use.
The biggest bottle neck for AI productivity is a lack of feedback. Humans still must bridge the gaps, figuring out behavior across various repos to coordinate changes in all of them, or observing production logs and data to share failures that AI can fix. The more pieces of the system that it can access simultaneously, the faster it will iterate. Humans will only provide new feature requirements and feedback on problems, while AI will iterate and iterate and iterate. It’s a matter of time before most jobs in this space are gone or at least pay way less since the scope and complexity is much reduced and there is no shortage of people who can tell AI in plain English what to do.
The concerns about bubble burst are irrelevant. The bubble bursting doesn’t make the technology go away. Some companies will fail, but others that aren’t over-leveraged will pick up and carry on. And, my company self-hosts the GPUs and runs the models internally, so an AI bubble burst would have zero impact on its ability to keep generating code.
And, whether AI enshittifies my life or whether I have any opinion about that is also irrelevant. It’s not up to me. I cannot control what other people will tend to do and just like most people don’t care if their clothes are made in a sweat shop or their food is produced on a factory farm, they will also not give a shit if the software they use was generated by AI.
Sure thing bud. We’ll see how you do when that code needs to be fixed or maintained. It’ll be fun to see your bills once your agents switch to token based pricing. Short term gains are a fools game.
Also, none of what you said disproves any of the drawbacks I pointed out.
Lastly, yes, it does matter what you think and what you do. Silence and obedience is complicity.