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points by bdcravens 3 days ago | 0 comments

Scarier than that is the idea of replacing you with someone far cheaper who can drive the AI.

Yeah, all those losers in the office that couldn't find their way out of a paper bag suddenly look as productive as you do.

[–] KeplerBoy 3 days ago

They actually don't. A lot of people still have no clue how to drive these tools.

[–] doctorwho42 2 days ago

Honestly I think that is more of a symptom of how slapped together the AI software stacks feel to an outsider.

All my dev friends swear this is the future, all my scientist coworkers just say it's a useful tool.

I have heard the pitch and have people explained how it works... But I have yet been handed a guide on how to set myself up properly to get the most out of AI. Like I have both a corporate openai gui agent as well as cli setup with a monthly allotment of tokens. But there is no clear standard guide on how I should be setting things up, like we do for python in books "here are the building blocks for python"/aka learn python the hard way

[–] DerArzt 2 days ago

I've been wanting a guide like you are but a question I haven't been able to answer is: what would go in it?

LLM and harnesses are changing so fast that if I had a guide from 6 months ago I'm not sure how relevant it would be today.

I'm guessing that when things calm down and the landscape isn't changing as much then we will get the guides.

[–] mmcnl 2 days ago

In my experience AI widens the gap, not closes it. The best engineers are 10x more productive, the worst engineers maybe 2x.

[–] iugtmkbdfil834 3 days ago

:D As a person who can do both ( and keeps logs of various interesting mishaps in our little corner of the universe ), neither is easy to do well, both require skill and, well, current literacy rates don't exactly make me optimistic.

edit: It is actually kinda funny. One would think that if we would embrace the full spectrum now, we could have the best of both worlds ( logic and language side by side solving humanity's problems ).

edit: conditional syntax

[–] pixl97 3 days ago

Just remember, it's not how good you are at your job, it's how hungry the person on your way to work is that's willing to split open your head and steal your wallet.

[–] iugtmkbdfil834 3 days ago

Trust me, the concept of social insurance is not lost on me. Frankly, the fact that we are running into this without considering likely outcomes ( or worse, considering it and plunging without relevant ways to keep people from going crazy ) is.. annoying to me. It shows me our leadership is.. not great.