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I am very tired of seeing every random person's speculation (framed as real insight) on what's going to happen as they try to signify that they are super involv
by tracerbulletx 9mo ago
I am very tired of seeing every random person's speculation (framed as real insight) on what's going to happen as they try to signify that they are super involved in AI and super on top of it and therefore still worthy of value and importance in the economy.
- jstummbillig 9mo agoThen don't.
- Avicebron 9mo ago"Temporarily embarrassed AI hypebeasts"
- DiscourseFan 9mo agoYeah if you actually work in AI you usually can’t say much at all about what’s going on.
- CuriouslyC 9mo agoSadly this is more a statement about human irrationality than any of the technology involved.
- DiscourseFan 9mo agoBroadly, but its more narrowly a statement about NDAs
- volkk 9mo agothe wonderful modern world of "everyone must build their personal brand"
- pousada 9mo agoThe worst thing is that it works. (As a musician) i never invested in a personal brand or taking part in the social media rat race and figured I concentrate on the art / craft over meaningless performance online. Well guess who is getting 0 gigs now because “too few followers/visibility” (or maybe my music just sucks who knows …)
- ares623 9mo agoConsidering there are artists with a large following putting out atrocious work, I think we know.
- stack_framer 9mo agoHow can I listen to your music?
- eftychis 9mo agoTo help the needle a bit (and agreeing with sibling comment): please share some example of your music here and where/how we can listen to it!
- pousada 9mo agoThanks for the offer! I don’t wanna dox myself on this account just yet - and I am slowly building an audience on IG/SC now, basically have admitted defeat of my previous strategy. Also have 2 gigs coming up in the summer _fingers-crossed_ I just was feeling some type of way seeing that comment and wanted to vent thx for listening
- eftychis 9mo agoGood luck and all the best! Feel free to DM me at any point with the music if any of the above changes -- always a fan of good music.
- volkk 9mo agoseems like it depends on what your goal is. i'm guessing if you want to be a musician that makes a living in your current life, a personal brand is extremely important. if you don't mind doing it for the sake of the art and soul fulfillment and the offchance you'll be discovered posthumously then i think it doesn't matter!
- sidrag22 9mo agoI always thought I would kinda be immune to this issue, so I avoided social media for my entire adult life. I think I am still in the emotional phase about it, as its really impacting me lately, but once my thoughts really settle i wanna write some sorta article about modern social media as an induced demand. I still very much would prefer to not engage at all with any of the major platforms in the standard way. Ideally I'd just post an article I wrote, or some goofy project i made, and it wouldn't be subject to 0 views because I don't interact with social media correctly.
- Lramseyer 9mo agoYou have to understand the people in the article are execs from the chip EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry. It's full of dinosaurs who have resisted innovation for the past 30 years. Of course they're going to be blowing hot air about how they're "embracing AI". It's a threat to their business model. I'm a little biased though since I work in chip design and I maintain an open source EDA project. I agree with their take for the most part, but it's really nothing insightful or different than what people have been saying for a while now.
- estimator7292 9mo agoIn my humble opinion, every corporate EDA exec can suck farts through a bendy straw. Altium has to be some of the worst software in existence.
- blackguardx 9mo agoAltium isn't great, but you must not have tried the others...
- phkahler 9mo agoKiCAD or Horizon EDA?
- reactordev 9mo agoIt’s in software too. Old guard leadership wanting “AI” as a badge but not knowing what to do with it. They are just sprinkling it into their processes and exfiltrating data while engineers continue to make a mess of things. Unlike real AI projects that utilize it for workflows, or generating models that do a thing. Nope, they are taking a Jira ticket, asking copilot, reviewing copilot, responding to Jira ticket. They’re all ripe for automation.
- bigfishrunning 9mo agoLol it's cute you think they're reviewing copilot. They're copying and pasting a wall of text without reading it.
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- imiric 9mo agoAgreed, but I'd add tech influencers and celebrities to the top of that list, especially those invested in the "AI" hype cycle. At least the perspective of a random engineer is less likely to be tainted by their brand and agenda, and more likely to have genuine insight.
- n2d4 9mo agoI think I'm the opposite! The key is to ignore any language that sounds too determined and treat it as an opinion piece on what could happen. There's no way of knowing what will, but I find the theories very interesting.
- torginus 9mo agoOne thing I found out from my years of commenting on the internet, is as long as what you say sounds plausible and you state it with absolute conviction and authority, you can get your 15 minutes of fame as the world's foremost expert on any given topic.
- mnky9800n 9mo agoWhat would you like to hear from random people?
- jrowen 9mo agoAlso, can we just STFU about AI and jobs already? We've long since passed the point where there was a meaningful amount of work to be done for every adult. The number of "jobs" available is now merely a function of who controls the massive stockpiles of accumulated resources and how they choose to dole them out. Attack that, not the technology.
- FloorEgg 9mo ago> Also, can we just STFU about AI and jobs already? Phew, yes I'm with you... > We've long since passed the point where there was a meaningful amount of work to be done for every adult. Have we? It feels like a lot of stuff in my life is unnecessarily expensive or hard to afford. > The number of "jobs" available is now merely a function of who controls the massive stockpiles of accumulated resources and how they choose to dole them out. Do you mean that it has nothing to do with how the average person decides to spend their money? > Attack that, not the technology. How? What are you proposing exactly?
- shmel 9mo ago> Have we? It feels like a lot of stuff in my life is unnecessarily expensive or hard to afford. We have, yes. If you notice things to be too expensive it's a result of class warfare. Have you noticed how many people got _obscenely rich_ in the last 25 years? Yes, that's where money saved by technology went to.
- FloorEgg 9mo agoAre you sure it's class warfare? It may result in class warfare but I am skeptical that's the root cause. My guess is it has more to do with the education system, monetary policy and fiscal policy.
- torginus 9mo ago2 well identifiable classes in western societies are landlords vs renters, where the latter is paying a huge chunk of their income to be able to use an appreciating asset of the former. This class thing is especially identifiable in Europe, where assets such as real estate generally are not cheaper than in the US (with the exception of a few super expensive places), yet salaries are much lower. Taxes tend to be super high on wages but not on assets. One can very easily find themselves in a situation where even owning a modest amount of wealth, their asset appreciation outdoes what they can get as labor income.
- loughnane 9mo agowell said.
- isodev 9mo agoTo me the post reads more like “we couldn’t convince current engineers to adopt LLMs so we’re going to embed it into the curriculum so future engineers are made to believe it’s the way to do things”