Ashto-Afpo.
Sterling made the prediction 30 years agp, and this chud is just walking right into it.
Cool, cool. How the fuck are we supposed to adapt when AI is doing all the jobs because employer would rather get free labor from a robot than fucking pay a human being? How the fuck are we supposed to earn an income, house ourselves, or feed ourselves? Time to burn it all to the ground and go back to hunting, gathering, and bartering. Sundar doesn’t look delicious, but we’ll eat him anyway.
What jobs? This shit can’t even tell you the time.
It’s your boss who is firing you to cut costs. AI is the excuse.
Technically its an excuse to take money away from these jobs and invest them into their own self satisfaction or AI.
I’m all for replacing managers with LLMs. Both spew incoherent nonsense that only accidentally coincides with reality and people smarter than them are left to interpret it.
~~we ~~ you will have to work through societal disruption
FTFY, because he won’t have to, and won’t work through societal disruption, he will just buy another Ferrari with his extra money or some shit
Having said that, AI as it currently is isn’t AI, it’s fucking LLMs, and LLMs as they are today won’t do any of this shit that is being promised. LLMs pretty much have platoed out, and won’t be getting any better soon.
The AI bubble will burst, it’s just a question of how quickly and how much of the world will explode with it
And yet again, not only did everyone in power let this bubble form AGAIN, everyone in power AGAIN three everything they got on top of it, believing that the rainbow s end really did have a pot of gold. When the economy eventually breaks badly, AGAIN, those in power will bail out the CEOs with OUR money, blame some easy target that isn’t them, and claim there was no way to avoid any of this shit. A few pretend to care laws will be put in place, they won’t do shit to prevent the next bubble, but not that it matters because those laws will then be revealed again 5-10 years from now because they’ll be remotely standing in the way of the next bubble that is going to be awesome for
everyonethe top 0.1%So. Can we now finally outlaw multi millionaires and abovd? Can we now finally cap personal networh at 10-20 million dollars and any income above that goes 100% to taxes? Can we finally cap company networths at 1 billion, maybe 1000 employees, max? Any income above that, 100% to tax
I don’t want a single trillion dollar company, I want a million million dollar companies
Careful what you wish for buddy. When we’re all unemployed, we’ll be coming for you.
He will have his army of Tesla killer bots by then.
First they’ll need the robot-building robots, and before that they’ll need the maintenance robots that fix and troubleshoot all the robots. All of this will be designed by the engineering robots, which also don’t yet exist
Is it actually wiping jobs?
People are saying no but I think it actually is starting to take jobs.
I’m a software engineer and my company is forcing us all to use AI to write code and we basically just review it at this point and test it then fix any issues.
About a year or two ago there was this big change. They said we are “shifting left”. A hot new trend in the tech industry where we eliminate quality assurance teams and instead the engineers test their own code. At the time it seemed odd. Why would I test my own code that I already tested? It seems the shift was to lay off those people so the engineers could take over the testing jobs when theirs are automated away.
Now they are starting to question all the managers who don’t write code or use AI tools. They have noticed the managers are redundant now too so I don’t think they have much time. My manager is vibe coding like crazy.
We also have product managers who are vibe coding now too. Everyone is just trying to hold on to their livelihood as long as they can. It’s like battle Royale of who can justify staying on to manage AI agents.
It’s insane.
And I know people will say that the code isn’t good enough but I assure you it is. Because it’s all based on our existing code base that was very well written and has high test coverage requirements. It’s very good at following well defined patterns. They just pump a ton of money into it and give it more context.
About a year or two ago there was this big change. They said we are “shifting left”. A hot new trend in the tech industry where we eliminate quality assurance teams and instead the engineers test their own code.
Yeah, that is absolutely not what Shift-left is. Shift-left is essentially an implementation of TDD, and QA is still a vital component of that. I think you are right in that management used it as a scapegoat to fire people.
However, if what you are saying in the rest of your post is accurate, you need to GTFO that company, fast. It’s only going to be a matter of time before the product craters from all the vibe-coding.
I have golden handcuffs for now but it’s a very large company with lots of products so my plan is to stay as long as I can while keeping my resume up to date. Also experimenting with some business ideas.
Ideally I can do my own thing one day without all this nonsense.
Is there any big tech CEO who’s not a total moron or that’s a specific requisite needed for the role
You can even strip ‘big tech’ out of it. Overwhelmingly I met C-Suites that were the “fail up” type.
It is all as intended. They didn’t stumble into this.
Almost none of them are morons. They are all cunning, sophisticated and they spend all their time on work and their goals.
No need to underestimate them.
If anything their weaknesses lie in arrogance, ignorance (not the same thing as being stupid) and low tolerance of dealing with challenges they haven’t encountered. As things stand today, this weaknesses haven’t really caused them any problems, but that doesn’t this will always be true.
Yes. We’ll have to.
Deal with it you powerless peasants, or die, idgaf I’m a billionaire!
-Sundar Pichai, probably
Accurate AF
How about we adapt by raising taxes on you assholes and funding social programs?
