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Like, no shit the plagiarism machine that cannot create anything truly novel and can only regurgitate other people's already existing work can't replace professionals. I legitimately hope all of these companies go under.
They will, but they'll take you with them
Oh, and now you need a new fucking degree to learn how to 'optimize your token usage with well crafted prompts the machine can understand' otherwise you'll burn through the energy Cleveland uses in a year, and end up costing the company millions.
Dumbest fucking bubble so far other than tulips and beanie babies
No it's dumber. Beanie babies at least left you with a little doll kids could enjoy.
In some companies, 'optimize your token usage' means using as many tokens as possible.
Yeah part of our performance evaluation at my company now is how much of our code is "made by AI". I said sure buddy, added a code attribution to Claude so all of my code gets marked as AI generated even though I manually edit Claude's subpar output all the time.
As long as I initially generate the code with Claude I can manually change whatever I want and it still somehow marks it all as "AI-generated". It's a stupid ass metric for so many reasons, especially because of how dumb their metric-generating LLM bot is.
Indeed.
"AI is good" became "Good employees use AI" became "The more AI the better" became "The more tokens used the better the employee."
What's incredible is that none of these are self-evidently true premises, but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.
When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).
Two things.....
Is.....is Cleveland known for high energy usage? I don't get the reference.
Tulips had a bubble? I'm so confused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Ah, it happened in 1634. That's why I hadn't heard of this. I wasn't born yet for a few more years.
Damn whipper snappers
Go for the flowers, stay for the etymology of fictional country names
TIL the two countries in The Princess Bride are both named after a Dutch currency
I think he just picked a decently big town as an example, and Dutch tulips were the very first stock craze.
The area is known for causing the 2003 blackout, but that was really due to the heat that day.
And that all the vibecoding they do instead will eventually turn their whole product into an unmanageable mess which cannot be salvaged.
Thing is, they CAN replace “professionals” — which is 80% of the population. They won’t replace the original thinkers, of which there are relatively few.
And most original thinkers aren’t feeling threatened by AI, as they can figure out something new to do.
I mean, I remember college. I remember how many people graduated without an original thought in their heads, focused only on getting the credentials to land their dream job. Those are the people generative AI is coming for.
Has it made life more difficult? Yes. Is it a magic wand that will make companies rich without human investment? Absolutely not. At the end of the day, it’s just making the baseline of human knowledge accessible to the highest bidders, with a bit of randomness and sycophancy thrown in. Which is a step up from confident BS with a bit of randomness and sycophancy thrown in.