• danisth [he/him]
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    53 days ago

    So I haven’t read anything by Steve Yegge before, but looking into it now I see he’s the head of a company that sells tooling that leverages the very models/agents that he’s saying will turn the industry on its head. Not saying he’s wrong, just seems like everyone that says AI will do X is person who will profit very much if everyone believes that AI will do X.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      63 days ago

      It’s a bunch of people selling shovels trying to convince everyone else there’s a gold rush

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      43 days ago

      Yeah, the problem is if the AI is convincing enough at appearing to do X and the rush to adopt happens very quickly, then there’s the potential a lot of damage could get done.

      Or if AI does in fact do X, it’ll just punch the accelerator on every negative trend in tech.