Not necessarily -- I am extremely anti-AI; I think the danger is not that it's good, it's that it's convincing. Turns out most people don't care about the quality of art or prose or code that they interact with, and it's very depressing.
Most gods have never been observed to have any real world impact. Only their worshippers cause real world effects. So god is not a bad analogy even for doomers.
My take is that most art, prose, and code was really bad before AI too. Now there's just more of it good and bad. It's like hating that YouTube exists because cable TV was so good. Now anyone with a camera can make and upload whatever nonsense they want but in the end lots of very good content was made on top of the huge pile of rubbish.
"Normal" companies aren't immune to this. I saw a couple where the town hall concluded that these results are great, but we have to do more with less as the shareholders expect it.
I'm seeing lower salaries, and work sample on actual codebase consistently happening. Also here an ex employee wanting to come back at just above half their previous pay.
Your employer probably would, and Anthropic as well.
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In any case, these Netflix and LLM subscription comparisons are utterly beside the point, the equation is hilariously different when it’s a surveillance tool used by
the state violence monopoly that we’re talking about. The standard should be absurdly higher than "no big deal, everyone shares their Netflix".
No need to hope. 99 percent of the world outside of mathematics and programmers who had already figured it out pre ai. We'll just have to learn from them.
We're "solving" manual labour too. Those people could find themselves liberated from physical work in the next few years, unless some corrective force/action intervene.
First stop blocking iOS pwas from simply installing to the home screen, and don't clear out data in 7 days. Then we'll talk about your browser being better.
This is a bit of a chicken and egg, but the number of iOS users who have saved a web app or PWA to their home screen is probably in the single-digits worldwide. Half-joking.
People are just not aware that this is a thing, and when they learn it's a thing, they don't want to do it.
It doesn't work because Apple prevented it from working because it threatened to shrink revenue from their app store. And that's why there are so few PWA apps and users -- who wants to develop something that they know will be broken? Yes, a lot of devs got burnt and now resent Apple for what they pulled.
Nearly every browser on the market and most desktop application are just Chrome in a ski mask. Safari and Firefox are the tiny holdouts that prevent web technology from being 100% controlled by Google.
Mixed blessing indeed. As a young programmer, many times I complained about being asked to put warts in my perfect architecture, until I realized I'm not being paid to make museum pieces, I'm being paid to solve business problems.
I don't program anymore, but I learned you still can enjoy the beauty of your Mount Fuji when the business needs a pizza stand in the middle of the trail.
Seeing the core of my Mount Fuji stable and supporting more stands around for years is a satisfaction itself.
I personally feel like the second any art becomes a "job", it ceases its magic for them.
I don't think that artists would feel the same way about their art if they were put in corporate cubicasl with little agency to build art that "sells" because it increases the bottom line.
I think this is why in the video game industry many people burn out. They join for the passion and leave soulless.
A collective of workers in a field can very much decide what they want to get payed for. Craftsmen did exactly that for centuries, and that's in fact what makes them being known for quality and is thus in fact their business moat.
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