Ai did that with whatever cli tools were available and what it would write itself.
Ai is not a faster horse. It is a phase shift.
We won't see a gas station clerk write photoshop because we won't need a photoshop.
100% agree. People are looking at the future through the lenses of the current paradigm just like when people from the past imagined the future (our present) in a way which we now find hilarious. Most of the time, the future doesn't bring developments which improve an action in a scalar way (faster, shorter, stronger, etc) but instead fundamentally change the nature of that action (handwritten letter communication vs video calls) or completely override the need for it (telephone boxes vs mobile phones).
But if I can clarify my point. It's more that I'm trying to say "Company promises A is happening and B is the necessary consequences to achieve it".
I do not believe A is happening but B is occurring despite that, in order to achieve hidden agenda C. Though in this case, C is not that hidden since every other article has them blabbing out loud about "wow it's going to be so amazing when C happens!"
here,
A = AI is making us more productive than ever
B = This will cause impacts on jobs and the economy as a whole as we realign what labor is
C = Companies make more money than ever as it works towards eliminating labor on massive (90+%) levels in order to maximize profits and moating the idea of knowledge itself
We are all scrambling to figure out what else we need to do (and so are many other roles).
En masse, I argue not. More productivity for engineers would not be met with mass layoffs if engineering production was why value was being added. On the contrary, other industries have had to hire back talent becsuse companies were too aggressive cutting people and needed that work to be done.
But I'm not an oracle. I can only speak for what I see today and won't predict tomorrow. Especially in these trying times.
Everything else is something else you care about, but producitivty is simply proven for almost every engineer on the above point.
You're not getting my point, and it's not hard. I disagree with this statement.
>producitivty is simply proven for almost every engineer on the above point.
I've read otherwise.
Even if people could find the tools, they won't seek it if a one button solution can come to them. But we can't outcompete Instagram in a prompt, nor some popular app.
Agentic solutions just don't have these issues. You give them your image, that's it.
Yeah, that's the marketing pitch. Much easier to fall into that than really think and approach how you perform a task.
A photo with adjusted cropping, background blurring, and contrast etc?