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Now the question is - no one was born good or best engineer/programmer/scientist. Often it was a long path of sleepless nights, daily grinding, failing million

by xvilka 2mo ago

Now the question is - no one was born good or best engineer/programmer/scientist. Often it was a long path of sleepless nights, daily grinding, failing million times, doing dumb mistakes along the way, the usual package of suffering sometimes called "experience". What is the path now for the next generation of good or best engineers? There will be no opportunities/budget to do the same anymore.

doron 2mo ago
"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth"
- logicchains 2mo ago
  AI gives the skilled more ability than ever before to create wealth; they can realize an idea by themselves and a few hundred dollars of LLM spending, that would previously have been out of reach for anyone lacking the capital to hire 5-10 people.
  - plaidfuji 2mo ago
    This assumes that writing standalone apps (what is now implied by “realizing an idea” in the AI hype-o-sphere) still has defensible value
  - efields 2mo ago
    I agree with you in theory, but wealth goes hand in hand with relationships. If you can use your skills to make something great with AI in a short amount of time, someone else probably do it too. If they have better connections than you do, they win. Relationships get you farther than raw skill.
  - johnnyanmac 2mo ago
    You make the naive assumption that wealth these days is generated through quality products, talent, and hard work. The wealthy know better and that's why they by far profited the most off of AI.
Kinrany 2mo ago
That's not an interesting question, it'll be the same path as before but somewhat longer.
- johnnyanmac 2mo ago
  a depression followed by rebellion by the public that requires the armies to be sent in to quell the working class? And after several campaigns of rebellion (and much unnecessarily spilled blood) the governemnt finally does its job and offers proper social protections and regulations so the working class can survive?

by xvilka 2mo ago

doron 2mo ago

"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth"

logicchains 2mo ago
AI gives the skilled more ability than ever before to create wealth; they can realize an idea by themselves and a few hundred dollars of LLM spending, that would previously have been out of reach for anyone lacking the capital to hire 5-10 people.
- plaidfuji 2mo ago
  This assumes that writing standalone apps (what is now implied by “realizing an idea” in the AI hype-o-sphere) still has defensible value
- efields 2mo ago
  I agree with you in theory, but wealth goes hand in hand with relationships. If you can use your skills to make something great with AI in a short amount of time, someone else probably do it too. If they have better connections than you do, they win. Relationships get you farther than raw skill.
- johnnyanmac 2mo ago
  You make the naive assumption that wealth these days is generated through quality products, talent, and hard work. The wealthy know better and that's why they by far profited the most off of AI.

Kinrany 2mo ago

That's not an interesting question, it'll be the same path as before but somewhat longer.

johnnyanmac 2mo ago
a depression followed by rebellion by the public that requires the armies to be sent in to quell the working class? And after several campaigns of rebellion (and much unnecessarily spilled blood) the governemnt finally does its job and offers proper social protections and regulations so the working class can survive?