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At the same time we’re talking about AI replacing developers we also see cases like this of organizational technical incompetency. How does one square those tw

At the same time we’re talking about AI replacing developers we also see cases like this of organizational technical incompetency. How does one square those two realities?

bradly 1y ago
> How does one square those two realities? People eat terrible food because they are bombarded with messages to do so. People can use terrible software for the same reasons. It doesn't matter that the food tastes worse than it used to–food companies are having record profits.
jacobsenscott 1y ago
AI replacing devs talk is about short term stock pumping and short term COGS reduction. The long tail is someone else's problem.
- School-Cotton 1y ago
  I’m pretty sure devs are not usually counted as part of COGS.
imhoguy 1y ago
We just need one event of C*O of critical/big company bragging about firing engineering and replacing it with AI and then followed by huge cyberattack like that. Then see how AI balloon pops across news outlets.
- coliveira 1y ago
  They'll respond saying they need to invest the entire revenue of the company on new data centers to fix the issue, and the stock will double in price.
- chgs 1y ago
  The market rewards failure. Look at crowdstrike. You aren’t buying technical service or even technical assurance. You are buying someone to blame so the stakeholders don’t hold you accountable.
AnotherGoodName 1y ago
Well we need to fix the business leadership problem asap. From the bio of the current M&S CEO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Machin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Machin >He resigned as managing director of Target in April 2016 because of accounting irregularities that he was unaware of but "happened on [his] watch".[4] He then became the chief executive of Steinhoff International.[4] (which seemed to have a lot of issues too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhoff_International#Debt_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhoff_International#Debt_p...) Foresight to mitigate potential major issues is exactly what CEOs are expected to do. I'm not sure how being unaware of major account irregularities is not seen as a career ending move here. AI replacing CEOs seems straightforward as well. Accounting is such a data driven environment i think spotting account irregularities early would be straightforward. Likewise AI has the potential to think past short term thinking that leads to IT outsourcing (to the extent the store is not coming back online anytime soon!).
- e2le 1y ago
  >AI replacing CEOs seems straightforward as well. I'm not sure I want AI replacing all CEO's, ideally it would raise the bar for quality and performance forcing human CEO's to compete.
paxys 1y ago
99% of "AI" talk in the public is for the sole purpose of making wall street happy to boost stock price and/or pump private valuations of AI startups. The reality on the ground is very different. CEOs are bragging about replacing senior software engineers with AI meanwhile their recruiters and hiring managers are desperately advertising $300-500K/yr jobs for these same engineers while still not being able to hire enough of them because of high demand.
- bobthepanda 1y ago
  also at least some of the businesses that were doing this are now being run into the ground, like Klarna.
- pinoy420 1y ago
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- barbazoo 1y ago
  I honestly doubt that there is any overlap between the "$300-500K/yr" jobs and the jobs being replaced by AI.
tonyhart7 1y ago
wait until they release AI for security and system orchestration
sieabahlpark 1y ago
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At the same time we’re talking about AI replacing developers we also see cases like this of organizational technical incompetency. How does one square those two realities?

bradly 1y ago

> How does one square those two realities? People eat terrible food because they are bombarded with messages to do so. People can use terrible software for the same reasons. It doesn't matter that the food tastes worse than it used to–food companies are having record profits.

jacobsenscott 1y ago

AI replacing devs talk is about short term stock pumping and short term COGS reduction. The long tail is someone else's problem.

School-Cotton 1y ago
I’m pretty sure devs are not usually counted as part of COGS.

imhoguy 1y ago

We just need one event of C*O of critical/big company bragging about firing engineering and replacing it with AI and then followed by huge cyberattack like that. Then see how AI balloon pops across news outlets.

coliveira 1y ago
They'll respond saying they need to invest the entire revenue of the company on new data centers to fix the issue, and the stock will double in price.
chgs 1y ago
The market rewards failure. Look at crowdstrike. You aren’t buying technical service or even technical assurance. You are buying someone to blame so the stakeholders don’t hold you accountable.

AnotherGoodName 1y ago

Well we need to fix the business leadership problem asap. From the bio of the current M&S CEO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Machin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Machin >He resigned as managing director of Target in April 2016 because of accounting irregularities that he was unaware of but "happened on [his] watch".[4] He then became the chief executive of Steinhoff International.[4] (which seemed to have a lot of issues too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhoff_International#Debt_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhoff_International#Debt_p...) Foresight to mitigate potential major issues is exactly what CEOs are expected to do. I'm not sure how being unaware of major account irregularities is not seen as a career ending move here. AI replacing CEOs seems straightforward as well. Accounting is such a data driven environment i think spotting account irregularities early would be straightforward. Likewise AI has the potential to think past short term thinking that leads to IT outsourcing (to the extent the store is not coming back online anytime soon!).

e2le 1y ago
>AI replacing CEOs seems straightforward as well. I'm not sure I want AI replacing all CEO's, ideally it would raise the bar for quality and performance forcing human CEO's to compete.

paxys 1y ago

99% of "AI" talk in the public is for the sole purpose of making wall street happy to boost stock price and/or pump private valuations of AI startups. The reality on the ground is very different. CEOs are bragging about replacing senior software engineers with AI meanwhile their recruiters and hiring managers are desperately advertising $300-500K/yr jobs for these same engineers while still not being able to hire enough of them because of high demand.

bobthepanda 1y ago
also at least some of the businesses that were doing this are now being run into the ground, like Klarna.
pinoy420 1y ago
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barbazoo 1y ago
I honestly doubt that there is any overlap between the "$300-500K/yr" jobs and the jobs being replaced by AI.

tonyhart7 1y ago

wait until they release AI for security and system orchestration

sieabahlpark 1y ago

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