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> Yeah, "Engineers don't try" is a frustrating statement. We've all tried generative AI, and there's not that much to it — you put text in, you get text back ou
by layer8 11mo ago
> Yeah, "Engineers don't try" is a frustrating statement. We've all tried generative AI, and there's not that much to it — you put text in, you get text back out.
"Engineers don't try" doesn’t refer to trying out AI in the article. It refers to trying to do something constructive and useful outside the usual corporate churn, but having given up on that because management is single-mindedly focused on AI.
One way to summarize the article is: The AI engineers are doing hype-driven AI stuff, and the other engineers have lost all ambition for anything else, because AI is the only thing that gets attention and helps the career; and they hate it.
- FridgeSeal 11mo ago“Lost all ambition for anything else” is a funny way for the article to frame “hate being forced to run on the hampster wheel on ai, because an exec with the power to fire everyone is foaming at the mouth about ai and seemingly needs everyone to use it”
- badbird33 11mo agoTo add another layer to it, the reason execs are foaming at the mouth is because they are hoping to fire the as many people as possible. Including those who implemented whatever AI solution in the first place.
- cs02rm0 11mo ago> the other engineers have lost all ambition for anything else Worse, they've lost all funding for anything else.
- zwnow 11mo agoIndustries are built upon shit people built in their basements, get hacking
- r14c 11mo agoI think it should be noted that a garage or basement in California costs like a million dollars.
- cs02rm0 11mo agoI am! No one's interested in any of it though...
- LtWorf 11mo agoYou need to buy fake stars on github, fake download it 2 millions time a day and ask an AI to spam about it on twitter/linkedin.
- zdragnar 11mo agoZIRP is gone, and so are the Good Times when any idiot could get money with nothing but a PowerPoint slide deck and some charisma. That doesn't mean investors have gotten smarter, they've just become more risk averse. Now, unless there's already a bandwagon in motion, it's hard as hell to get funded (compared to before at least).
- didibus 11mo agoAre you sure it refers to that? Why would it later say: > now believes she's both unqualified for AI work Why would she believe to be unqualified for AI work if the "Engineers don't try" wasn't about her trying to adopt AI?