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  • Hard agree. AI is not currently at the stage that CEO's think it's at. A few years down the road there's going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away. Sadly this also will be accompanied with a IT/Software "sinkhole" because many who were competent in the field will have moved on to the next thing as the jobs wern't there anymore.

    Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but when COVID occurred they started being treated like tools, medical facilities started having to pay mad amounts of money on traveling staff that jumped from facility to facility due to it to even partially make up for it as many left the field. Jump to today, the problem still exists, an educated field like IT or nursing can't have an event that results in tons of people leaving the profession, as you can't just snap your finger and get that knowledge back. It will take years to regain that trust and get people back into the fields again.

    Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but

    What drew me to this collection of a full sentence and another fragment spliced in wasn't the comma splice: it was the perfect example of beggaring the question.

    I'm still not sure whether the bad writing was accidental or an attempt to divert from the false premise.

    At no time has there been sufficient medical staff.

  • Hard agree. AI is not currently at the stage that CEO's think it's at. A few years down the road there's going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away. Sadly this also will be accompanied with a IT/Software "sinkhole" because many who were competent in the field will have moved on to the next thing as the jobs wern't there anymore.

    Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but when COVID occurred they started being treated like tools, medical facilities started having to pay mad amounts of money on traveling staff that jumped from facility to facility due to it to even partially make up for it as many left the field. Jump to today, the problem still exists, an educated field like IT or nursing can't have an event that results in tons of people leaving the profession, as you can't just snap your finger and get that knowledge back. It will take years to regain that trust and get people back into the fields again.

    Even more fun, the stock market is propped up by Nvidia and AI companies buying their chips. If AI crashes, it's a new financial crisis. And if the market crashes, the layoffs at far were just a warmup.

  • Copilot is shit.

    Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

    It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

    This is my experience. It saves a bit of typing sometimes but that's probably cancelled out by the time spent correcting it, rewriting nonsense it produced, and reviewing my corworkers PRs that didn't notice the nonsense.

  • Hard agree. AI is not currently at the stage that CEO's think it's at. A few years down the road there's going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away. Sadly this also will be accompanied with a IT/Software "sinkhole" because many who were competent in the field will have moved on to the next thing as the jobs wern't there anymore.

    Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but when COVID occurred they started being treated like tools, medical facilities started having to pay mad amounts of money on traveling staff that jumped from facility to facility due to it to even partially make up for it as many left the field. Jump to today, the problem still exists, an educated field like IT or nursing can't have an event that results in tons of people leaving the profession, as you can't just snap your finger and get that knowledge back. It will take years to regain that trust and get people back into the fields again.

    I predict it will be even more somewhat lesser skilled white collar type office jobs. Like insurance adjusters and other insurance policy related jobs come to mind. AI will completely fuck this up. There will be massive lawsuits and these companies will go out of business. Same thing with other industries. Once they realize the massive fuckup they made, they will try to switch back but no one will be there available to come back. And then they are fucked. The more industries this happens to, the worse the crash will be as it affects many diverse industries. It’s a huge recipe for disasters, like Great Depression style. And with trump’s tarrifs to fan the flame, we are well on our way.

  • I predict it will be even more somewhat lesser skilled white collar type office jobs. Like insurance adjusters and other insurance policy related jobs come to mind. AI will completely fuck this up. There will be massive lawsuits and these companies will go out of business. Same thing with other industries. Once they realize the massive fuckup they made, they will try to switch back but no one will be there available to come back. And then they are fucked. The more industries this happens to, the worse the crash will be as it affects many diverse industries. It’s a huge recipe for disasters, like Great Depression style. And with trump’s tarrifs to fan the flame, we are well on our way.

    Don't worry, until Trump gets his insurance adjusted by an LLM trained on real data about him (won't happen), he'll make executive orders exempting the LLM users from legal action.

    also - love the Johnny Mnemonic inspired username.

  • You can't point this out! People will flip the responsibility to you!

    That always seems to happen. I'm too broke to buy a pitchfork, and too pyrophobic for a torch, sorry.

  • Hard agree. AI is not currently at the stage that CEO's think it's at. A few years down the road there's going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away. Sadly this also will be accompanied with a IT/Software "sinkhole" because many who were competent in the field will have moved on to the next thing as the jobs wern't there anymore.

    Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but when COVID occurred they started being treated like tools, medical facilities started having to pay mad amounts of money on traveling staff that jumped from facility to facility due to it to even partially make up for it as many left the field. Jump to today, the problem still exists, an educated field like IT or nursing can't have an event that results in tons of people leaving the profession, as you can't just snap your finger and get that knowledge back. It will take years to regain that trust and get people back into the fields again.

    This is exactly what happened to manufacturing and chip making of 40 years of "free trade". We lack the skilled staff for these jobs.

    Continuing on the nursing topic, well before covid there was a shortage of nurses, then the media blitz convinced many people to get degrees... There were so many looking for work that wages plummeted.

    It's all a shell game. The goal is to make the labor suplly huge so they can dictate wages, which they did.

    They did it with programmers overthe last ten years... Now nobody can find a job.

    I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

  • Copilot is shit.

    Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

    It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

    You can turn off the copilot autocomplete in the ide and JUST use agent/edit/ask mode

  • Don't worry, they're gonna eat themselves doing shit just like this. It's not a matter of if, but when.

    "AI" has it's uses (medicine, engineering, etc.), but 99.99% of the snake oil they're selling are just gimmicky cash grabs. Classic cases of Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

    Let them burn their money, I say. Fuck it. Just sit back and enjoy the fire.

    yes, but we will be burdened with the consequences somehow. we will be the ones to pay the price, as always.

  • CEOs, embrace torches and pitchforks.

    Copilot is shit.

    Copilot is shit

    Yes and no. I find its terrible at solving more complex problems but its great at writing out tests for a function/view that covers every flow. My team went from having like 40% (shit) coverage to every PR having every case tested (inb4 they're not good tests, they are good)

    With that being said, fuck CEOs and fuck AI. At least you could (mostly) escape the blockchain hype

  • Be patient. Pyrrhic victories of your enemies are not to be gobbled. They are to be savoured.

  • Even more fun, the stock market is propped up by Nvidia and AI companies buying their chips. If AI crashes, it's a new financial crisis. And if the market crashes, the layoffs at far were just a warmup.

    they already laid off so many people, when it does crash, it will. do they expect the programmers/devs they dint fire to hold thier company over til thier next grift, with so little people.

  • This is exactly what happened to manufacturing and chip making of 40 years of "free trade". We lack the skilled staff for these jobs.

    Continuing on the nursing topic, well before covid there was a shortage of nurses, then the media blitz convinced many people to get degrees... There were so many looking for work that wages plummeted.

    It's all a shell game. The goal is to make the labor suplly huge so they can dictate wages, which they did.

    They did it with programmers overthe last ten years... Now nobody can find a job.

    I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

    travelling nurses seems to be the way to go, to earn bank. being a staff at a hospital or medical center doesnt seem attractive, unless your in a really backwoods state like a red one, where they let nurses fall to the cracks to be hired. Also the pandemic, people during thier university years wernt learning anything so they were also fucked from the start, since everything was online and not in person, thats why im seeing such bad reviews in universities in my area. the first 2 years is pretty much crucial to determine your strength in your degree, and then some experience, which was probably non existent during covid, like with labs and research.

  • I predict it will be even more somewhat lesser skilled white collar type office jobs. Like insurance adjusters and other insurance policy related jobs come to mind. AI will completely fuck this up. There will be massive lawsuits and these companies will go out of business. Same thing with other industries. Once they realize the massive fuckup they made, they will try to switch back but no one will be there available to come back. And then they are fucked. The more industries this happens to, the worse the crash will be as it affects many diverse industries. It’s a huge recipe for disasters, like Great Depression style. And with trump’s tarrifs to fan the flame, we are well on our way.

    it has a cascading effect, its already affecting state university in the west in enrollment, because they dont see a future in thier degree, they are either not choosing to come to a particular 4 year university, or looking at other universities in other areas.

  • Copilot is shit.

    Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

    It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

    i wonder if this the reason why its so bad on the phones, it autocomplete with words that arnt even close to what you are typing.

  • they already laid off so many people, when it does crash, it will. do they expect the programmers/devs they dint fire to hold thier company over til thier next grift, with so little people.

    They'll expect that and in lot of cases fail, while China, India en EU will try buy everything for cents on the dollar. Then USA starts to lose its dominant position in digital services, what's now a big part of the export. Or the government can panic and nationalize the whole sector. It's not sure how things turn out, but it'll be a weird time.

  • Copilot is shit.

    Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

    It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

    Turn off the autocomplete, it’s shit. Do use agent mode for targeted tasks that are easy but laborious. Don’t give open ended or subjective prompts. Don’t ask it to do anything creative or novel. It has its uses. Nowhere near what the snake oil salesmen would have you believe, and probably not worth the unsubsidized cost, but for now it has uses.

  • This is my experience. It saves a bit of typing sometimes but that's probably cancelled out by the time spent correcting it, rewriting nonsense it produced, and reviewing my corworkers PRs that didn't notice the nonsense.

    Here's where I'll give it credit:

    1. It can spit out a beautiful readme.md file
    2. It will insert comments to explain the more nuanced aspects of my code for those viewing it for the first time

    Doesn't make up for the annoying-ass auto complete hijacking though. Stupid thing keeps making up non-existent functions and api's and inserting them all over the place.

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    Yup, just takes a single person!
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    Is this what US diplomats are doing now? Fucking pathetic.
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    Probably all you need to know is that when you see industry conferences about AI and CyberSecurity? Yeah, they're not about how to use AI to improve security with neat, new heuristic detection methods, and automated response scenarios. They are about all the extra work you have to do, all the extra things you now need to be aware of and worried about, because AI so routinely introduces so many holes and exploits and flaws ... in so many places that you normally wouldn't think to check, because surely any person or team putting out that terrible of code would have been fired, right? Beyond the methods one can use to 'trick' AI into doing things it isn't 'supposed to do'... mass AI adoption by large swathes of the economy is just literally a national security threat, it fundamentally compromises the security and integrity of tech infrastructure that now undergirds basically everything.
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    indeed - run a searxng instance now and it is my default search engine. Includes google in the search but no AI and adds DDG and others. Works well enough https://search.relayeasy.com/
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    Luck is also a component in how long Trump lives ; though he's not that old. OK, I'll say it differently - luck is also a component in how long Putin lives, and that's likely less. When he dies, there's gonna be change. In USA too. In Russia - maybe not for the better immediately, but that will be a power transfer, which hasn't happened since 1999. Even if to someone of his daughters. I don't subscribe to any of stupid theories of "Kremlin towers' balance", "businessmen vs patriots" and such, but the point stands, and the previous power transfer, from Yeltsin to Putin, despite them being the same faction, changed a lot and fast. Which could mean some of the blackmail material leaking, or the direction of blackmail changing, or other ties being restructured. Which would pull the rug from many of Russia-aligned parties in the west, and it would be interesting to see whether Democrats or Republicans are affected more, in case of US, and whether local alt-right parties or the orderly centrists in EU are affected more. The common belief is that it's the latter in the US and the former in the EU, but I think we'll be surprised. Now, Russia is small compared to other parties, but big enough to make waves in case of such an event.
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    This is someone more obnoxious than ai tech bros
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    Telegram is the wild west. Europe tried to do something about it, but russia started threatening with more hybrid wars and revenge. At this point, we have to accept the fact that Telegram is essentially dark web that no one but kremlin has access to. It's also widely used for selling drugs where I live and no one can do anything about it. Been going on for 2 years now (somewhere in East Europe) with what feels like 10% of the city being part of the group
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    Mate, you were the one who started in with the "ad-hominems" (actually you just mean insults, but are too much of a redditer to just say that). You can keep whining that reading a few hundred words is too much for you, but writing just as many words removed about it isnt