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To put an economic spin on this (that no one asked for), this is also the capitalist nirvana. I don't have an immediate citation but from my experience software
by acron0 9mo ago
To put an economic spin on this (that no one asked for), this is also the capitalist nirvana. I don't have an immediate citation but from my experience software engineer salary is usually one of the biggest items on a P&L which prevents the capitalist approaching the singularity: limitless profit margin. Obviously this is unachievable but one of the major obstacles to this is in the process of being destablised and disrupted.
- cudgy 9mo agoin the most profitable / high margin software industry, what other major costs are there?
- mattgreenrocks 9mo agoSam Altman’s real job is pushing AI hopium on execs who will believe anything in pursuit of that nirvana.
- TheOtherHobbes 9mo agoWhich is hilarious, because AI is making it easier and easier to bring a good idea to market with much less external financing than usual. You can argue about security, reliability, and edge cases, but it's not as if human devs have a perfect record there. Or even a particularly good one. What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief?
- mattgreenrocks 9mo ago> What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief? The status quo, which always require an order of magnitude more effort to overcome. There's also a substantial portion of the population that needs well-defined power hierarchies to feel psychologically secure.