Comment by jstanley
4 days ago
This is an unnecessarily cynical view.
People are excited about AI because it's new powerful technology. They aren't "pandering" to anyone.
4 days ago
This is an unnecessarily cynical view.
People are excited about AI because it's new powerful technology. They aren't "pandering" to anyone.
I have been in dozens of meetings over the past year where directors have told me to use AI to enable us to fire 100% of our contract staff.
I have been in meetings where my director has said that AI will enable us to shrink the team by 50%.
Every single one of my friends who do knowledge work has been told that AI is likely to make their job obsolete in the next few years, often by their bosses.
We have mortgages to pay and children to feed.
People are afraid because they need to work to eat. People who don't need to work to eat are less likely to be afraid.
I have yet to meet anyone except managers be excited about LLM's or generative AI.
And the only people actually excited about the useful kinds of "AI", traditional machine learning, are researchers.
You don' have to look past this very forum, most people here seem to be very positive about gen AI, when it comes to software development specifically.
Lots of folk here will happily tell you about how LLMs made them 10x more productive, and then their custom agent orchestrator made them 20x more productive on top of that (stacking multiplicatively of course, for a total of 200x productivity gain).
I assume those people are managers, have a vested interest in AI, or have only just started programming.
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I don't know what is your bubble, but I'm a regular programmer and I'm absolutely excited even if a little uncomfortable. I know a lot of people who are the same.
Interesting, every developer I've spoken to is extremely skeptical and has not found any actual productivity boosts.
Ok that's not true. I know one junior who is very excited, but considering his regular code quality I would not put much weight on his opinion.
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