Work Reform

this is wishful thinking on wealth’s part

makes sense. (although I feel like it's more of a husk of almost-skill, given how trash AI is.) damn AI...

It's a stupid promise.

Some jobs will be eliminated by AI, new technology wipes out jobs all the time. We needed people to manually connect wires to connect phone calls, and we automated that away.

I'm excited that the tedious technical parts of animation are getting automated, this gives the artists more time to work on the art. We use computer generated graphics all the time, we use digital production workflows, we don't manually paint frames anymore, unless we explicitly choose to for stylistic reasons.

If the animation isn't just right, the artist can tweak it. The art isn't lost because the artist used a modern tool. It's the soulless garbage used by money hungry gouls that will be entirely generated from a couple text prompts, and the result will show it.

There's a huge difference between implementing a new tool into your workflows to cut down animation hours and days to minutes, and delegating the whole artistic production process to the tool.

Yeah it's the Jack Welch mentality where they fire a bunch of people to make line go up.

So offer a technology that promises to fire most of the workforce and investors throw money at it thinking "If we put everyone out of a job then line will go to the moon!"

Investors may not be all that smart.

It's some poor slob with $15k on Nvidia stock praying they get rich without any skill for their shilling.

And reason left the room years ago:

• what is the possibility of me being capable of greatness in all things and aspects at the same time?
• very close to zero, if possible for human at all
• oh well

But that never occurs to them

For sure this AI bubble is extra fucky wucky. Like, I wish I had the capital (I'm a proletariat sooo I don't) to burn on shorting some of these companies. Not that I really know how to do it properly and it's volatile and unless you wanna end up owing lots of money you can't cover you have to start with a lot since you're making very hard to foresee bets and some will not pan out.

Like, at some point this bubble will explode, nothing is really propping it up. There's not enough actual demand, the artificial demand there is won't stay forever and even the small amount of real demand isn't going to be there when companies start paying the actual cost for these services instead of it being subsidized. Almost all the money being poured into this "AI" (ie: the fancied up LLMs who's capabilities the tech bros keep on lying about) is going in a circle - it's actually madness.

It's absolutely a house of cards, but betting on a collective realization that's going to implode a big part of our economy is hard because people desperately want to believe the illusion. Sooner or later reality will come knocking and the harsh truth will come to be.

I do think it's going to make 2008 look like a joke but I guess we're going to have to crash the stock market like it's 1929 before our government decides to (once again) reign in Wall Street and this bullshit. It's like we all lost our collective minds or something, as if there wasn't a reason for the glass-steagull act to exist. Hell look at what's happening with our food supply as we've been gutting the FDA and USDA and EPA inspectors and relaxing regulations and constantly looking the other way when these big agri businesses literally shit up our food.

Talent = affinity + trained skill + effort

Usually.

They believe they're better than everyone else because they're wealthy. But if someone can do things they can't, that ego doesn't like it much. Removing that uncomfortable feeling in a high priority for the rich.

There was a leopardsatemyface town where the touring politician made fun of poor people because they couldn't buy food and the poor conservative town LAUGHED at themselves and then lost a hospital and supermarket.

The irony, of course, being that middle management is a category of job much better suited to being replaced by AI than actual creative productivity is

They’re in for a rude awakening when the price gets jacked up to the point none of them can afford it.

I genuinely don’t know how vibe coders manage to get anything to actually work.

*correction by someone qualified to actually know shit about the matter.

This is where things will get interesting in the near future.

Just stop wasting time/money on Claude. If you already know what you're doing, use a super cheap model like DeepSeek Flash with thinking off to generate the code you want.

There is absolutely no reason (IMO) that a skilled SWE should ever need a model like Opus.

Art just requires practice, which is even more rudimentary than education.

Prompt engineering and sifting through slop can appear like practice to anyone who doesn't. This, I find, is the source of the delusion and hate.

Honestly, I don’t even think it’s an artist vs non-artist thing.

It’s a communication thing, and specifically it hinges on leading with curiosity, trusting the people, and clearly defining expectations (or, failing that, setting boundaries).

I work in a different role now, but a large part of what I do is similar: interfacing between people of differing skill sets, expectations, and needs.
I’ve found that if I don’t get in front of people, they tend to assume the other party is hard to work with or maybe even dumb, rather than merely approaching from their own frame of reference. It gets easier once people realize that no one is an idiot, and we’re all just trying to check different boxes, often without a clear idea of the others considerations.

Except for that one colleague. Woof. Do they got blackmail on leadership or something? How do they manage to even feed themselves every day?

Do you do commissions? I’d like an original, signed wonky stickpeople and turds for my office.