This, I think, is the key thing that "AI can do anything" crowd fundamentally does not understand. AI cannot do real, material work.
Workers do that, and they want to replace (or depress the wages of) workers; when in fact AI is really only good* at management tasks.
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dchuk 15 hours ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Gas Town Decoded
I’m very bought in to the idea that raw coding is now a solved problem with the current models and agentic harnesses. Let alone what’s coming in the near term.
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That being said, I think we’re in a weird phase right now where people’s obvious mental health issues are appearing as “hyper productivity” due to the use of these tools to absolutely spam out code that isn’t necessarily broadly coherent but is locally impressive. I’m watching multiple people both publicly and privately clearly breaking down mentally because of the “power” AI is bestowing on them. Their wires are completely crossed when it comes to the value of outputs vs outcomes and they’re espousing generated nonsense as it’s thoughtful insight.
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