alt Hacker NewsSure, it did some meaningful things:
* Higher load on senior engineers who are about to burn out hard from fighting an endless battle against unreviewed slop people keep trying to yeet into production
* Less junior hiring and suppressed wages
* Culture of uncertainty and fear
* Computers are really expensive now
* Some people now live with diesel generators and gas turbines making their neighborhood hazardous to their health
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brody_hamer • today at 12:28 AM
> Higher load on senior engineers who are about to burn out hard from fighting an endless battle against unreviewed slop people keep trying to yeet into production
Gosh, this has been my entire experience with AI, and I’ve never seen it this well articulated. Thank you!
Totally agree. IMO it's mostly behind the scenes stuff though.
I think some of the most impressive stuff to show someone from 2016 might be LLMs doing a summary of complex topics, followed by self-driving (actually) cars and intricate robots... but other than that there is no "future magic" touching the lives of every day people going on.
Actually I'm pretty sure if you showed someone the latest and greatest from these big AI companies, these AI companions that can book flights, people would go "Oh, so its like a smarter Siri" and proceed to not care at all lol.