Comment by miek
10 hours ago
My very large employer has always been glacially slow on modernization and tech adoption. It may now, oddly enough, become a competitive advantage.
10 hours ago
My very large employer has always been glacially slow on modernization and tech adoption. It may now, oddly enough, become a competitive advantage.
Literally the plot of Battlestar Galactica! Life imitates art indeed...
Or Mr Krabs' fear of robot overloads keeping technology at bay in the Krusty Krab!
who is the Starbuck of AI?
plot twist: it's Starbuck
That has probably been an advantage since the move of everything into the web.
yes, I was never so happy to work in Germany. People used to joke about the proverbial fax machine still being a thing but I've never been so glad to work in a culture where this mania doesn't exist. Reading HN is like entering Alice's Wonderland of token maxxers and AI psychotics. Genuinely don't know a single person here who is forced to work like this.
Actually, I have been wondering to which extend the AI craze has reached the DACH region. I don't work for any company and neither do my friends. HN is essentially my only peephole into the world of commercial software development and I'm aware that it's extremely biased towards Big Tech and SV startup culture.
Ah so it's like 2000 again. Germany will go even farther behind it seems
Germany is standing at the abyss. America is one step ahead.
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If the people that walk before you go into the abyss, staying behind isn't wrong.
do you mean this aesthetically or quantitatively? Are they actually outcompeting / making more money ? Or do you mean they are now looking more desirable because their competitors are racing to the bottom (though likely making money on the way down)
Spoiler: it's not
Risk aversion is a tradeoff, not always a weakness.
The people using the LLMs are the risk, not the LLMs themselves
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No offense, but if you think your using AI in the development and design of your site, voxos.ai , gave you a competitive advantage it didn't. I can instantly tell when someone used an LLM to build their whole site and lets just say... Its not a good thing.
It is absolutely going to be a competitive advantage if it isn't already. When your competitors' products suck because they are using LLMs to write them, and yours work because you aren't, customers notice.
That assumes there's no way to use LLMs in a productive manner
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