Post B9Dc5VsUdTAt3IrEGG by Dan_Ramos@noauthority.social
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 (DIR) Post #B9Dc5VsUdTAt3IrEGG by Dan_Ramos@noauthority.social
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       Look at that! AI is already improving our lives, our work, our free time and curing cancer! The great promise of AI surely is lighting the way, right? Right?https://x.com/i/status/2086572982177087620https://nitter.poast.org/i/status/2086572982177087620
       
 (DIR) Post #B9FE5lmPVHZLmsWP68 by CoranDeo@noauthority.social
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       @Dan_Ramos Doesn’t this go for any tool that an employee owns, though. In 2005, I built an automated test set. 3, actually at $80K each. That freed us up from having to do a shitload of manual testing. There was no expectation that we could just sit on our hands, we were just more productive. We had time to streamline other processes and improve output.  We never ran ourselves out of work, we never got laud off, we ensured continued business, what we were paid to do. 🤷‍♂️
       
 (DIR) Post #B9FGnieIhlIwj9oSe0 by Dan_Ramos@noauthority.social
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       @CoranDeo But that wasn't the promise of AI.  Worse, near as I can tell, all AI did was end up getting people laid off and the remaining workers have to do even more work.  Mind you, I speak from experience here and I'm pretty pissed about it because AI didn't really help all that much and we really needed those people.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9HMfciZrPKE3bFw8m by CoranDeo@noauthority.social
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       @Dan_Ramos I think the bosses will figure it out. AI slop-code seems to be making a lot of products worse. AI coding has it’s place, but needs serious oversight from a capable, real code-monkey. From an electrical engineering perspective, it’s been great for making people who only know enough to be dangerous make some pretty useful tools that take some of the weight off an already overstretched team. I’m  sure it will bite is, but not today.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9HT6eoKmq0O5kDrt2 by Dan_Ramos@noauthority.social
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       @CoranDeo Maybe but I'm not seeing it so far.  Management is pushing AI like it's a new religion (it seems to function like one).