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Which is not at all what we're in reality. Stuff is actively getting worse when using AI code heavily (take GitHub for example), and companies who use AI for code aren't producing any productivity gains, or increases profits.
There is no sign of benefit on either side of the equation.
The problem is that you can do it yourself in 8 weeks, AI assisted equivalent in 6 weeks... Or pure AI YOLO in a few hours.
Management prefers to take the risk, specially when they are already hiring the cheapest they can't find which won't be great anyway.
My mindset: understand the task, prompt in detailed steps, validate each change, test thoroughly.
Management prefers to make the risk because they quite literally don't give a toss. They understand exactly 0% of what it is that you do, if they don't walk by you every morning they don't even know your name, and even if they get caught absolutely asleep on the job producing absolute slop, oh well they pull the golden parachute cord and off to the next gig.
Literally no one can point at anything that AI has produced that actually works, or does, well, anything at my place of main employment. Yet we are all in. Everything is "Oh Michael has something great that was created and we can't wait for you to see it, and Michael's like either a) "Sure thing bob, we are just fine tuning it, can't wait to show it off", or b) "Yes I can't wait to share it with everyone", and then literally just never does.
It's literally a circus. I have a woman on my team, who wanted to try it, wrote a pretty good prompt, asking for something pretty basic. Who like an hour later was like you know what, I'll just do it myself, I could have had this done 45 minutes ago. It's literal crap. Pages and pages and pages of absolute walls of text. All fancy writing, feels insightful, but of course nothing actually useful.
Well, those companies are pushing AI and vibe coding so hard it's actually stupid. CEOs are on this bandwagon that AI is going to replace 80% of their labor costs.
It ain't gonna happen. And trying it that way is to going to do a lot of damage, both to people and the companies.
It's a lot like the dotcom bubble, not perfectly, but close enough that we should've learned more from it. There's a lot of absolutely dumb shit going around, but eventually some of it is going to stick. I expect the stuff that sticks won't be from people humping the hype train.
This is way way worse than the dotcom bubble. The dotcom bubble didn't burn a fraction of the cash this shit has. And of course it's all debt, so we all know what happens when that happens.
I've been debated all week instructing my advisors to go to cash on my investment accounts. I think it's a little early for that, but the closer and closer we get to that September October period, the more and more I'm going to consider it. I'm naturally a skeptic, and by habit I see catastrophy everywhere, but I think this one might actually be the big one. Maneuvering out of these bad ones takes a lot of government synchronicity, and well, that worries me the most here.
Well, the other danger is hyperinflation, in which case having cash under your mattress is pretty terrible. I went with a Euro index fund.