I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a grip, dude. Yes, bubble. People and their investments are going to get hurt. But there is also some really nice things we'll get out of this (that, of course, might not make up for the damage that it'll do) It's also pretty clear his ever-longer articles are just him testing out his upcoming book. But the tone is starting to overshadow the substance, which is a shame, because the underlying argument is solid enough to stand on its own without the theatrics.
This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.
I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone else has stopped giving a shit, pretending to get work done at insane velocity on borrowed time.
It's no longer "can AI be useful" to me, it's "how do we avoid people frying their fucking brains".
I care alot about software and code. I write without AI, code and prose. Yet I would say it is useful for context sensitive search and autocomplete on steroids. I wonder why it should be more? It’s the intellisense I always wanted - just not worth a trillion I'd say.
And another point: if your coworkers do their job exclusively by vibing, then where’s the point of producing software? Your competitors can recreate it easily. There’s no value in AI generated artifacts and so there’s no value in operating the AI.
Just write the damn code
The less your colleagues care, the faster the company gets there. Unfortunately.
It is hard to describe how utterly stupid that comment is from my perspective.
I was just walking earlier today listening to an AI converted audio book of Knowledge and the Flow of Information by Fred Dretske.
It is exactly the kind of thing that I would have never found just a few years ago.
Or it must be you just such a genius that already knows everything unlike us mere mortals that get incredible value from the models.
In reality you are just the standard IT dipshit that vastly overestimates their own intelligence.