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Originally Posted by kermitology
My company has embraced GitHub Copilot and I've been pretty bearish on it, and for pretty much this exact reason. I talk to my team and say that these are tools that can be helpful, much like using third party libraries are helpful, but ultimately you need to understand what they're doing. AI can't understand intent, and it can't do creative intent. It's foolish to lean entirely on AI.
I'm also pretty bearish on the entire AI industry given it's god awful impact on the environment, it's accelerating costs, and the fact that we're using models to train models which seems a lot like making photo copies of photo copies. Then you've got companies like CoreWeave who are doing Lazy Susan funding with Nvidia, and OpenAI getting funding from Softbank that just seems down right fraudulent, and OpenAI is heavily dependent on CoreWeave.
I'd be wary of trying to build businesses on the back of AI.
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History repeats itself. I was paid well to quit college and program Javascript and HTML during the dot com boom. This feels oddly similar with “prompt engineers”. Both very young me and now, we had minimal training and experience but the money was flowing hard. Everyone needed a website.
Then Jan 2000 hit, and it deflated. Not in days, but months and years.
I think this will be the same. AI like Web isn’t going away. The hype and shine will, and it will then morph into integrating with our lives. It will get much better, with less hype, but as always people will lose their shirts. Except for the new Mark Cuban, can’t wait to see who that is. Or maybe not.