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Edit: and it will probably also lead in most major benchmarks which says next to nothing about the quality.
Learn everything that you can about AI and you will be a great resource. Otherwise, learn a trade. Electricians will be required...........
Becoming an electrician would be a downgrade or even impossible for some people.
For the record, I think AI replacing highly paid "sitting behind a computer" jobs would be good for the society, but probably not for most people having these jobs.
Would you want that?
Isn't a house too personal that you'd want to get a professional architect with experience to design it, and sign off on it? Even if they used advanced tools like CAD and copy pastes 8/10 of it?
Sure, you can probably one shot notepad.exe but it has no meaning. Meaningful work isn't going anywhere, for the reason that meaningful work lives and lives on by people for people.
No one wants a vibe designed car, unless you are one of those psychos that has no tastes and doesn't care about anything.
I'd love to work and vibecode the house to my full liking, assuming that the agent harness will take care of all the nonfunctional things (stable design, zoning etc). Same for car if I could customize it I would.
(I definitely don't like the ramifications of it on the economy/jobs, but the above are pure consumer wins, no doubt)
Instead of deadcode, it'll leave you with a few extra secret rooms that have no doors or windows :)
The reason you wouldn't want this is cost. The cost of building a house is marginally affected by designing it with an AI agent. Most of the cost is bricks, etc -- material.
Until we can reliably trust these models to skip that last step, there is nothing inherently wrong with using AI to create, so long as it is manually reviewed for accuracy at the end.
My CTO is pushing 30k line PRs and when asked “how do you know it works” all he can say is “I’m not sure but it probably does. Our customers can QA”. Meanwhile I’m cleaning up half vibed messes from my coworkers that demo’d well.
They’re very powerful, but I think their marketing departments are even more powerful. I do wonder how many of these comments are real people.
My worry is that the agentic stuff is reportedly a significant improvement and getting better quickly.
It probably helps that I am a skilled programmer while being an expert in another domain.
My software development has gone from write/read/execute to read/execute and I’m fine with that.
Have you actually used these tools?
They work like magic but are not magical. Theres a skill in using them well, and getting good output. Its not just an automatic free lunch button. Good engineers become great engineers and the gap widens, as juniors/outsourcing gets pushed out of the market.
Why is everyone so worried about poison going away?
> Why is everyone so worried about poison going away?
Hello, aloof galaxy-brain. If you weren't aware, we live in a capitalist economy. In capitalism, if you don't have money you are in a state we call "poor," which means your life is difficult and your living standards bad. Most people rely on having a job to make money, and usually need a well-paying job to be comfortable and secure.
AI isn't going to change any of that. It's not going to make energy, or land or housing more abundant, in fact it will probably make all of those things more scarce.
If the future doesn't have "jobs," there will probably be a holocaust of workers before we get there. IMHO, that's more likely that some kind of utopian techno-socialism.
Are you sure about that? I think the future will be here faster than we imagine
> Are you sure about that?
I'm pretty sure. If our society was capable of that kind of adaptation (less/no jobs), it would have done it by now. In fact, the impulse has been in the other direction. AI's not some magic thing, in this way it's no different than any other labor-eliminating technology.
> I think the future will be here faster than we imagine
Yeah, but that future ain't going to be the utopia promised by AI's salesmen. They're salesmen, and they're saying whatever they need to say to get you to buy in.
One farmer works full time to grow enough food to feed everyone.
One carpenter works full time to maintain housing for everyone.
The other 18 people work full time reciting incantations to the gods to prevent their destruction.
The farmer and the carpenter are too busy growing food and maintaining housing to recite incantations all day.
So each of the 18 incantation reciters spends an extra two hours every week to recite incantations for the farmer and the carpenter to prevent their destruction too.
Then a magic stone is discovered that can recite the incantations by itself, the gods are appeased, and nobody has to work full time reciting incantations any more.
How can the islanders possibly survive now that 90% of them don't have full-time jobs?
The farmer and the carpenter are no worse off, but they think it's unfair that they must continue working full-time while 90% of the residents don't work at all.
Perhaps the farmer and the carpenter should destroy the magic stone so that everyone will have full-time jobs again.
Or is there some other way the islanders can survive after 90% of the work has been eliminated?
Here's mine: the island has a leader/owner, he takes the stone for himself. He tells the 18 incanters that they're obsolete, and lectures them about how the future is glorious and its all their fault they can't change with the times. Then he allocates more of the resources to himself. Sure, he doesn't "need" more, but it's abhorrent to pay moochers who are providing no value to him. He owes them nothing. The moochers die off, slowly or quickly, it doesn't really matter.
Dude, your story proves nothing. It's a fantasy. It doesn't map to the society we live in, or any realistic social change. The islanders didn't do anything before the "magic stone" to change their situation ('cause that ain't the first stone, there have been dozens before it), and they're unlikely to do anything different afterwards.
Also, if you think about your story correctly: the "magic stone" doesn't liberate the islanders, it destroys their power to make change.
We'll reach a strange situation where "service jobs" are commoditized while hard labor becomes the bottleneck. Worse, the US had transitioned to a service economy and devalued hard labor, and that also seems unlikely to change. Maybe the people going on about the permanent underclass were onto something.
As for it having permanence, I don't think it's a given, even if it's statistically likely for the majority. People have worked themselves out of poverty for ages.
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I think it’s premature to say what’s going to beat what though