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As an AI user you're not that different from the punch cards programmer. You're more like a cobbler who adopted some new electrical tools for their craft, and
by coldtea 5d ago
As an AI user you're not that different from the punch cards programmer.
You're more like a cobbler who adopted some new electrical tools for their craft, and feel smug against backwards cobblers using manual tools, while in the meantime the newer versions of those tools in the form of factory automation move in to make the whole craft obsolete.
- sanswork 5d ago"Becoming an engineering manager will leave you unemployed"
- coldtea 5d agoIt very well may. Quite a few among those that have been fired because of AI (or at least, with the companies claiming AI as the cause).
- Nursie 5d agoThis analogy may well be very apposite. But what is that cobbler supposed to do during that time? He can keep his head above water using the machine, suspecting the factory is coming for him too or ... he can refuse to modernise and fail now as others outperform him? "Stop the factory being built" is not within his power.
- coldtea 5d ago>But what is that cobbler supposed to do during that time? Optimally? Move to the best available trade that appears not to be deprecated for a good 50 years in the future, and in which they'd hire someone of his background.
- Nursie 5d agoAnd this is why I’m considering retraining as an electrician :)