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I don’t fully disagree but I think it’s short term thinking. Some companies emerge out of the current demand, but a lot of other companies do work on future pro
by bsvalley 8y ago
I don’t fully disagree but I think it’s short term thinking. Some companies emerge out of the current demand, but a lot of other companies do work on future problems way ahead of time. SpaceX is a great example, openAI is an even better example. When it comes to AI we’re looking at a 10-15 year window before it reaches its full potential. Will it become “harmful” to people? We don’t know, but the use of AI in our industries will certainly be driven by the increase in productivity, increase in revenue and decrease in cost. Thinking everything is going to be “just fine” for a while sounds a little naive to me. Employees are resources and a business needs resources. Thinking that a business would utilize the least optimized resource by paying the highest price doesn’t make any sense.
If AI can debug your code today, fine, that’s awesome, you could focus on solving better problems... But how about in 10 years from now? Will it debug its own code? I think it’s an interesting question to ask - what will happen to software development in 15 years from now? From 1990 to 2000 we got the Internet, it has disrupted the way we work. From 2000 until today, nothing revolutionary came to life. Electric cars? Crypto? Unfortunately the last 20 years have been very flat and secured minus a few recessions or automations within various industries. I wouldn't relate too much on that. Tomorrow could still bring something completely different than yesterday. Again, this is my "critical" way of thinking. It might sound a little dark sometimes I agree ;)