2 pointsby dpforesi4 hours ago1 comment
  • northfield274 hours ago
    Agreed - ego does push individuals towards mastery because it provides stability and status. But the ones too tied to ego gets lost in history.

    What I don't agree with is the current hype based marketing.

    First calculators and computers were sold with the promise of improved productivity and those tools actually delivered in the same time frame. But thats not the case with AI.

    Consider this promise: "AI will eat up coding completely". Each CEO claims that 92%-95% percent of coding is done by AI in their company. But if you are active here, you would know that even some senior engineers at big tech don't find it useful in production. I think that these "hype-funded" engineers at CEO's company are just working on toy projects, because I find claims of senior engineers true.

    These CEOs make wild claims when many of them haven't actually programmed much. Every interview with these CEOs pushes the year-of-AGI 2-3 years forward.

    This is such a time where I really hope the investors actually look into the details, experience the gap between the claims and reality and pull their funding.

    • dpforesi4 hours ago
      Agreed. I don't think AI adoption should be strictly driven by people (executives) that are too far removed from the development process to not have clear understanding of how effective the tools are or an understanding of their failure modes. Some of the consternation might be coming from the people working on the code directly, which is probably a healthy feedback loop that should not be ignored.