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delusions of having AI do those roles and the one person in charge over prompting will know the difference between quality and slop... guess which one I'm betti
by reactordev 5mo ago
delusions of having AI do those roles and the one person in charge over prompting will know the difference between quality and slop... guess which one I'm betting on?
- moomoo11 5mo agohistorically speaking, efficiency has always won out for example, the last obvious inefficiency i remember was sys admins. the most worthless, self aggrandizing group of people at any company. got wiped out mostly (the best work for the cloud engineering companies), and i think it was for the better! engineers today handle deployments, and it is far better.
- Refreeze5224 5mo ago> historically speaking, efficiency has always won out Too bad AI is not about efficiency. It's about headcount reduction, which is exactly what Coinbase is doing here. AI just gives them plausible cover.
- reactordev 5mo agoIf it was about efficiency, they would be moving faster, not cutting headcount…
- moomoo11 5mo agoSurely there are some insanely smart people amongst the 100s of thousands of laid off supposedly god tier software engineers and adjacent who will start new companies maybe even spawn a new industry? Feels like a problem that will solve itself. There are more cars today than people ever had horses.
- Refreeze5224 5mo agoCars were more efficient horses. AI is not more efficient people. It's an excuse to reduce payroll. Capital is fundamentally antagonistic to labor, because labor is an eternal cost center that until AI, never had a solution.
- moomoo11 5mo agoReally? I mean to be honest you can do a lot more with less people now with AI. I’ve worked with many mids but most people were really good. They’re all even better now. In both technical and non technical roles. I think people who are average skill at their jobs are about to be rocked if I’m honest.