GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out | Hacker News Reader

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out

businessinsider.com

23 pointspera11 comments

I would argue the majority of one's time spent developing is verifying that the thing being built actually works as intended. AI has diminishing returns for the same reason your fancy text editor setup has diminishing returns, it's 10% of the job at best.

You're talking about LLMs. ML can actually be good verification engine.

Is anyone working on an AI-solution for company management yet? Surely blowing hot air and getting a big salary could be easily automated?

It's always funny when the people telling you to absolutely do something or your world will end... are the same one that have the exact cure to the problem. A problem that they mostly created.

I'm all in for AI to take over my job. And then other peoples jobs. But then what ? Once the world is made mostly of unemployed people, what will happen ? Sure you can have food prepared by clankers, delivered by clankers, taxis driven by clankers and so far... But with which consumers ? Will clankers pay money to other clankers ? Surely not.

And I'm not even that much of an anti-AI guy, I'm just wondering where the hell are we going with that ? Sure for rich people it's an absolute delight to see that they can now produce code without having to pay people, increase margins like never before ... But then what ?

> Sure for rich people it's an absolute delight to see that they can now produce code without having to pay people, increase margins like never before ... But then what ?

But if consumer spending decreases, the companies rich people own also would face the heat, right? Especially if they are not computing adjacent. Am I missing anything?

No, you're not.

If consumer spending decreases, everything goes down. For example if you take ads shown on blog post, news media.. What happens tomorrow once human traffic decrease, and it's mostly crawlers.. How can those website still keep up ? Crawlers don't click ads.

Either rich people are just trying to surf the wave of AI and we've got to endure this for a few years. Or if it's not a wave, it could deeply change our society, beyond everything we've seen.

Sounds like it’s time to finally drop GitHub.

I'm getting out of github, thanks for nothing...

Weird way for the CEO of a software company to admit he doesn’t understand software.

I suppose the CEO wants me to cancel my subscription. First they steal our code, then they tell us to get out. I don't embrace "AI".

First they make the story disappear from the front page, then they still find it hours later and downvote heretics.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com