No duct tape?!Was he from St. Louis, love Starbucks, and play a lot of soccer?My real world experience is this:
We've tested Claude to write code. We're getting the same amount of output as a couple of offshore devs. We still need an architect to do code reviews and either feed it prompts to rewrite or make the required changes to meet spec, but you have to do that with the offshore guys too.
We need to train our architects on writing prompts (should be relatively easy for them), but the biggest limitation is coming up with all the policies to govern how we use it to remain compliant for our clients in regulated industries and to limit our liability when we use it.
Telling coal miners "Learn to Code" was a joke before, but now it's becoming a joke for most young people too. Wild times.
I miss the good old days when youthful nerds made shit that mattered in their mom's basement or garage.
These days they are too busy creating cringeworthy content on social media...
I worked with a dude who should be in this vid. I'm sure he shows up a couple of times in this website.
https://www.bloodfingarrison.com/
he would talk endlessly about his cosplay costumes and would wear them to work on halloween.
He was a true cocksman
Entertainment only?!Eventually AI should be able to create self-regulating/self-improving systems so no external regulation is necessary.My real world experience is this:
We've tested Claude to write code. We're getting the same amount of output as a couple of offshore devs. We still need an architect to do code reviews and either feed it prompts to rewrite or make the required changes to meet spec, but you have to do that with the offshore guys too.
We need to train our architects on writing prompts (should be relatively easy for them), but the biggest limitation is coming up with all the policies to govern how we use it to remain compliant for our clients in regulated industries and to limit our liability when we use it.
Telling coal miners "Learn to Code" was a joke before, but now it's becoming a joke for most young people too. Wild times.
Thus, no more lawyers.
Eventually there will be no more anything. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of work.
The path of degradation to total spectatorship:
Mistresses
Court Jesters
Brothels
Plays
Radios
Movies
Television
Newscasters
Internet
Analysts
Content creators
Content Analysts
Fake news
AI-generated Fake News
AI-generated verisimilitude
AI-generated fake AI
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COH fits in there somewhere I think
I worked with a dude who should be in this vid. I'm sure he shows up a couple of times in this website.
BLOODFINGARRISON.COM
he would talk endlessly about his cosplay costumes and would wear them to work on halloween.
You worked with Marv?
Eventually there will be no more anything. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of work.
Let's see you get that AI to deliver a set of brake rotors.
Eventually there will be no more anything. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of work.
Let's see you get that AI to deliver a set of brake rotors.
waymo
next.
Those things won't know to spot the car up in the air with the wheels off and drop them on the mechanic's bench.
Eventually AI should be able to create self-regulating/self-improving systems so no external regulation is necessary.My real world experience is this:
We've tested Claude to write code. We're getting the same amount of output as a couple of offshore devs. We still need an architect to do code reviews and either feed it prompts to rewrite or make the required changes to meet spec, but you have to do that with the offshore guys too.
We need to train our architects on writing prompts (should be relatively easy for them), but the biggest limitation is coming up with all the policies to govern how we use it to remain compliant for our clients in regulated industries and to limit our liability when we use it.
Telling coal miners "Learn to Code" was a joke before, but now it's becoming a joke for most young people too. Wild times.
Thus, no more lawyers.
Eventually there will be no more anything. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of work.
Let's see you get that AI to deliver a set of brake rotors.
Purely anecdotal story:
Thanks to my history combined with corporate buyouts, I know more than a handful of people who work for various large corporations with wide geographic footprints and large customer-facing workforces. Restaurants, grocery stories, liquor and food distributors, etc. Basically anything involving transporting or selling food and drink post-production. And some are very large. One guy I knew as a sales rep for a purely local wine distributor, thanks to mergers, now finds himself in management for the largest alcohol distributor in the US. Anyway, a lot of these people are placed rather high up in their respective org charts. VPs, regional managers, facilities managers, logistics directors, sales managers, etc. It's really just a function of meeting people over many years and then getting old. But none of them are in the C-Suite, is the point. They are very highly placed, but not executive.
Over the past year or two, many of these people I know have come face-to-face with redundancy. Their employers know they've already cut back on drivers as much as they can. They've cut back on customer service as much as they can. Salespeople can only handle so many clients. Waitresses can only handle so many tables. Drivers can only deliver so much product. Physical limitations. But AI is making it so the work done by upper management can be done by fewer people. You don't need as many regional managers as you used to. You don't need as many humans coordinating marketing programs. Hell, you don't need as many HR generalists or recruiters. Because all of these people have some core functions, but also a lot of busywork, and AI is able to handle a lot of the busywork for them. So they are getting downsized.
Long story short, the people I'm talking about who are close to retirement and financially secure might say "screw it," but the younger ones are already planning on delivering brake rotors for a few years.
AI, as a cost-cutting labor-saving revolution, is absolutely going to be the first one that makes jobs redundant from the top-down, rather than bottom-up. The boardroom will try to find a way to protect itself, but if you're even one floor below them, you're in trouble sooner rather than later.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
Think bigger picture, as in, business owners right down to a mechanic will either adopt AI (org structure, workflow, optimization, etc) or get replaced by younger AI-thinking competitors. So while you’re right manual labor will be the last to be replaced by robots, when robots are able to replace you, they will be operating in a far more efficient work environment.Eventually there will be no more anything. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of work.
Let's see you get that AI to deliver a set of brake rotors.
waymo
next.
Those things won't know to spot the car up in the air with the wheels off and drop them on the mechanic's bench.
AI is changing everything.
You appear safe for the time being:
AI-powered automation will change work, but people remain indispensable
“At current levels of capability, agents could perform tasks that occupy 44 percent of US work hours today, and robots 13 percent (Exhibit 2).8
Extending automation further would require technologies that can match a range of human capabilities currently unmatched. Agents would need to interpret intention and emotion. Robots would need to master fine motor control, such as grasping delicate objects or manipulating instruments in surgery.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/agents-robots-and-us-skill-partnerships-in-the-age-of-ai
