Quote from: RE on May 14, 2025, 01:59 PMSoftware engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI

RE

I constructed a query and asked a public llm (recently updated), how many people are there doing AI as a hobby in the United States.

The answer is 10,000, to know the number was not a llm hallucination, I asked it to explain the reasoning behind that number.  It made sense.

As one of the 10,000 I have something to say about this.  There is no A.I. without software engineers and there are plenty of businesses who would like their private data put into a local llm for security reasons.  They want it done now.  It seems to me a guy could make serious bank right now doing that.  Businesses do not know how to do it themselves.

It is easy to blame AI for what capitalism does.  Technology never has been the problem.  The problem is how technology is used and capitalism uses technology in the service of money.  Capitalism has no other consideration.

So as a loyal servant of the matrix, when you get tired of blaming immigrants for stealing your jobs, say AI did it.  And then after your monkey mind gets tired of blaming AI, switch back.

AI can help a software engineer write code, if they know how to use it.  But the software engineer turns into a supervisor who has to watch AI like a hawk to keep it on task, or AI will start doing some really stupid shit, and ruin everything.  The gains are not as great as commonly believed.  Once a project gets into territory that a llm is not familiar with, there are no gains.

AI hype is way overblown.  If a company really thinks they can replace skilled technical staff with AI then they will deserve what they get, just like Tesla will get what it deserves as consequence for the behavior of Tesla's private owner.  Out of bizness.

*llm - large language model